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Understanding the quality of FX liquidity provision - why not all FX liquidity is created equal

Global FX markets are in transition, the catalysts include tougher regulation, higher capital costs and reductions in leverage ratios. As a result, we are seeing continued fragmentation of liquidity across primary venues, and reduction in risk appetite by banks who are scaling back on market making, leverage and appetite for risk warehousing (posi...

15 January 2017 Innovation in Financial Services

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Talk of ICE exchange to buy FX platform Fastmatch

Interesting to see that Profit&Loss running a story that the US futures Exchange ICE may be preparing to buy our all three shareholders (Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon and FXCM) of FX platform Fastmatch for around $200m-$250m. As the FX market continues to fragment, and higher regulatory costs for bilateral trades start to bite, exchanges are no dou...

20 July 2015 /wholesale

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Why Dealer-to-client FX platforms should provide TCA tools for buy-side clients

The majority of single-dealer platforms (SDPs) – especially those of regional banks, provide mainly principal (rather than agency) based pricing to clients. That’s where the bank takes the other side of the trade (even if the bank covers the trades by back-to-back hedging with their liquidity providers), making their money on the spread, rather th...

13 July 2015 /wholesale

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Why SDPs should provide TCA tools for buy-side clients

The majority of single-dealer platforms (SDPs) – especially those of regional banks, provide mainly principal (rather than agency) based pricing to clients. That’s where the bank takes the other side of the trade (even if the bank covers the trades by back-to-back hedging with their liquidity providers), making their money on the spread, rather th...

13 July 2015 /wholesale

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Review of major FX Platforms volumes for June 2015

The major OTC FX platforms have now reported their Jun 15 volumes. In terms of spot FX, EBS and FastMatch show decent 5%+ gains, whilst Reuters spot volumes fall 1.8% to their lowest levels of 2015. The Reuters-EBS gap continues to narrow (smallest gap of 2015), showing spot flows continuing to move from Reuters to EBS. And I would suspect the...

12 July 2015 /wholesale

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Last look, lack of time-stamp and internalisation of flows - Which practice is most open to abuse?

Last month's publication by The Fair and Effective Markets Review FEMR, set out 21 recommendations to help restore trust in the wholesale Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity\ (FICC) markets. Recommendation 4b stated: ...."As part of that work, improve the controls and transparency around FX market practices, including ‘last look’, ‘time sta...

06 July 2015 /regulation

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Single-Dealer Platforms and SEFs

Last week saw the introduction of mandatory execution on new SEF platforms for certain standardised interest rate swaps. Such swaps will no longer be executed bilaterally between banks and their clients, but rather must be executed anonymously on SEFs. The move to SEF trading has however been tentative, with many buy-side firms holding back, nonet...

24 February 2014 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

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Can research drive execution, prove it?

Ask the head of research at any major bank, and they will tell you that their insightful research is a core competence for the bank, and a reflection of their deep understanding of the markets, and a key differentiator and source of added value to clients, and leads to greater execution flows. But, is that true, and just how can banks metricate th...

15 April 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services

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Latest BofE FX Survey Data - surprising findings

The Bank of England has JUST released their latest semi-annual FX turnover survey results for October 2011. Highlights Daily FX vols $1,972bln, down 3% on April 2011, some 17% higher on the year Spot vols rose 2% to a record survey high of $802bln/day (42% of total vol) Multi-Dealer Platforms (MDP) see huge 26% drop in vols compared to April...

06 February 2012 Innovation in Financial Services

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Optimising performance of single-dealer platforms

Many of the posts in this blog quite rightly focus on how single dealer platforms (SDPs) solve the problem of delivering compelling business workflows to clients right across the trade life-cycle. And why a well researched and intuitive UX design, is so critical to the usability of the platform by end users. However, perhaps we don’t talk here eno...

23 January 2012 Finance 2.0

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