Eurex Clearing has cleared its first euro short-term rate (€STR) swap trades. The clearing house claims that this represents an important milestone in both the establishment of €STR as the new benchmark risk-free rate, and in expanding Eurex’s EUR-denominated product offering. BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LLBW), Morgan Stanley, Nordea and […]
The average daily volume (ADV) of FX trades submitted to CLS in October was $1.79 trillion, down from $1.84 trillion the previous month, but up 4.6% from the $1.71 trillion reported in October 2018. An ADV of $415 billion in spot FX trades were submitted to CLS last month, which actually represents a 2.2% increase […]
The fact that FX volatility has largely remained subdued despite plenty of geopolitical turmoil has implications regarding how firms think about currency hedging, said speakers at Profit & Loss Forex Network Chicago. For example, Peter Azzinaro, managing director, global macro, portfolio management at Manulife Investment Management, explained that his firm foresaw at the end of […]
Virtu Financial is expanding its FX transaction cost analysis (TCA) offering with the addition of new high precision, low latency FX TCA benchmarks. The new FX benchmarks leverage Virtu’s technology platform and experience as a liquidity provider to the global FX markets to provide Virtu’s unbiased view of fair value at any point in time. […]
Baton Systems, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT)–based post-trade solutions for capital markets, and JP Morgan have developed a solution that enables near real-time cash and collateral transfers to multiple clearing houses. The new service addresses the challenge of having to tie-up excess funds across the clearing workflow by integrating settlement instructions for custodians […]
CLS is releasing an FX forward volume data set as part of its suite of executed trade data products. This data focuses on outright forwards and swaps, providing an aggregated view of the forward market and therefore confirming pricing models for forwards and swaps. This is CLS’s first data product for the FX forward market […]
Citi has launched a new tool to help buy side firms cope with the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) that are due to come into effect over the next two years. Financial institutions such as asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies are scheduled to come into scope of the regulations based on volume thresholds that […]
Refinitiv has appointed Shirley Barrow as global head of its benchmarks and index business. Barrow will report to Pradeep Menon, managing director of investing and advisory, as a member of the investing and advisory (I&A) proposition leadership team and will assume responsibility for Refinitiv’s benchmarks and index business, including the WM/Reuters business. Barrow joined Refinitiv […]
The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM) has published its Code of Conduct to promote integrity, fairness and efficiency in digital asset markets. The association says that the Code is intended to inform market participants on best practices and to complement, not replace, existing regulation and is part of a long-term effort to define and […]
In a new video interview with Profit & Loss Rick Schonberg, global head of ForexClear product development at LCH, is unequivocal in expressing his view that the current credit model in the FX industry is due for a change. “The model definitely needs to change,” he says. “What’s interesting is that the BIS numbers — […]
