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Citi Hires for Global e-FX Sales Role

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Citi has made a key hire in New York to its e-FX team.

Merge

First Derivatives Acquires Cognotec

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Northern Ireland-based First Derivatives has emerged as the buyer for Cognotec, the foreign exchange software firm that went into receivership last month

Market Data

January FX Volumes Set New Records

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Two of the three largest foreign exchange trading venues have reported a sharp rise in volumes in January 2010 reflecting a high level of market activity during the second half of the month

Technology

EuroCCP Begins Clearing for ETCs

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

EuroCCP, a pan-European clearing house, launched a clearing service for European-listed exchange-traded currencies on Friday

Banks

Renaissance Capital Creates FICC Business

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has set up a fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) division

Technology

BNY Mellon Enhances iFlow

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

BNY Mellon has launched an enhanced version of its Interactive Flow Monitor (iFlow) service to provide clients with greater insight into currency markets and global investment flows

Hedge Funds

Parker FX Down in December

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Currency funds posted losses in December, as the appreciation of the US dollar against most of the world currencies hurt short term managers

Brokers

Shinhan Investment Joins Advanced Markets DMA Platform

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Korean securities broker Shinhan Investment Corp. is launching FX margin trading based on technology from Advanced Markets

Brokers

Gain Opens HK Office, Partners with Polaris Securities

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Gain Capital has opened an office in Hong Kong to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region and separately has signed a white label agreement with Polaris Securities (Hong Kong)

Exchanges

Concerns Raised Over Centralised Clearing: Survey

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

A new Greenwich Associates survey shows that corporations and financial institutions around the world broadly agree that moving OTC derivatives trading to a system of centralised clearing would be an effective means of managing both counterparty risk at an individual level and market-wide systemic risk

Exchanges

WFE Lists OTC Derivatives Reform as Priority

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the Paris-based trade association of 52 stock, futures and options exchanges, has announced its priorities for 2010 including the support of reform in the regulation of OTC derivatives markets

Market Data

Currency ETC Assets Rise to $49m: ETF Securities

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

ETF Securities (ETFS), which launched an exchange traded currencies (Currency ETCs) platform in November 2009, has seen assets in the platform grow to $49 million since inception

Technology

ASB Goes Live on Calypso

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

New Zealand’s ASB Bank has gone live with a treasury platform that provides integrated trading, processing and risk management for foreign exchange, money market and interest rate derivatives

Brokers

CMS Launches Gold and Silver Trading

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Online currency trading provider CMS Forex UK has launched trading in spot gold and silver on its platform VT Trader

Mover Shift

On the Move

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

WMBA, CLS, Calyon, UBS, Tullett Prebon, ISDA…

Technology

Tech Corner

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

A round up of the latest technology news…

Around The World

Around the World

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

Return of the Mac; CapIntro at a different level; food for thought; and how’s your luck?

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And Finally...

Monday 8th February 2010 00:00:00

I have been called many things over the years, most of which I cannot repeat in this publication, but last week I was called “cruel and heartless” during a discussion on business etiquette. And as this could be my last column I thought I would share the experience with you.