Buy side
Morgan Stanley shoots into FX options dealer top spot
Counterparty Radar: US mutual funds added $11.1 billion in new positions in Q1
Pimco doubles down on FX forwards trades in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Pimco accounted for nearly 60% of all notionals added by mutual funds
Cuts and points – how the Dealer Rankings work
Dealer Rankings 2024: We have a simple way to compare dealers. Sort of simple, anyway
BNPP and BofA top this year’s FX Markets Dealer Rankings
Both banks prospered with US mutual funds, while Morgan Stanley remained top counterparty for life insurers
Regulators urged to back non-cash variation margin
Market participants warn FSB on cash collateral demand as banks curb collateral upgrade trades
Prime status – Could FX futures exchanges rival the primary spot market?
This FX Markets webinar assesses whether the futures market will become an increasingly important reference price for traders at the expense of the primary markets, and what the implications of this could be.
SpectrAxe fires up OTC FX options Clob
Go-live marks first electronic all-to-all venue for buy-siders trading the instruments
Korea FX reforms expected to drive e-trading surge
Dealers say opening onshore FX market to foreign firms will push trading onto platforms
Hedge funds’ pricing often trumps other buy-siders – SNB
Research shows “advantageous” prices result in outperformance of 139bp trading USD/CHF
Execution algos evolve to make buy-side liquidity providers
Latest range of FX spot algos could give new roles to banks and buy side
JP Morgan’s new way to trade FX overlays
Hybrid execution method allows clients to put dealers in competition via a single trading agreement
Vanguard begins clearing NDFs on LCH
Addition of mutual fund giant gives big boost to client-cleared activity on ForexClear
How banks are adapting to all-powerful pod funds
Growth of multi-manager funds such as Citadel, Millennium and Balyasny has forced dealers to switch tactics in an attempt to preserve profits
RMB vol returns as hedge funds take barrier trade profits
Unwinds of exotic positions saw vol jump 72% after surprise PBoC move last week
Pimco’s cuts to FX forwards positions hit dealers in Q4
Counterparty Radar: State Street takes top spot among dealers as BNP Paribas slides to fourth
European funds face upsurge in settlement risk after T+1
Trade body Efama finds up to 40% of daily FX flows may have to settle outside protection of CLS
Inside BGC’s quiet move into agency broking
The interdealer broker’s Caventor Capital arm is pitching a hands-on service for hedge funds, filling what it sees as a gap left by large banks
As T+1 looms, non-US firms consider out-of-hours trading
Pruned settlement cycle forces foreign buy-siders to explore automating the FX leg of securities trades
Trend following struggles to return to vogue
Macro outlook for trend appears to be favourable, but 2023’s performance flop gives would-be investors pause for thought
Why last look needs a new look
Insufficient LP disclosures leave fund managers in the dark on pre-trade costs, says BidFX’s data head
LoopFX nears launch with Factset’s Portware partnership
New dark pool matching platform aims to integrate with existing buy-side workflows
LMAX taps real money clients with Cürex deal
Acquisition aims to offer liquidity providers diverse flows from asset managers
More, not fewer, FX platforms perplexes dealers
Predictions of consolidation have been wide of the mark
FX HedgePool launches all-to-all FX swaps matching
P2P platform starts daily matching and opens up to banks, hedge funds and ECNs