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Sponsored Editorial with smartTrade Technologies’ CEO David Vincent 1) What are the key challenges facing liquidity providers in these highly volatile and illiquid markets? The Foreign Exchange market has experienced low volatility for quite some time, however since the COVID-19 pandemic arrival in Europe in mid-February, we have observed the return of high volatility. One […]
Kx, a division of First Derivatives, has been selected by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) to build and manage its next generation e-FX platform. Under a multi-year agreement, Kx will provide SMBC and its clients with a solution that delivers electronic execution, distribution capabilities, algorithmic trading and risk management supported by real-time pre– and post-trade […]
Cboe is doubling down on its data-driven approach to FX matching as it looks to ramp up its NDF offering and build out its new analytics platform. Profit & Loss has previously reported on Cboe FX’s decision to change how it manages liquidity, shifting away from a qualitative approach towards a much more quantitative one. […]
Kirsty Gillies, global head of e-FX sales at Sucden Financial, talks to Profit & Loss about how the firm is expanding in different geographies, the impact of fintechs on the e-FX industry and the importance of diversity in the workplace. Profit & Loss: Sucden Financial has been expanding its presence in Hong Kong lately, is […]
With more data available to FX market participants than ever before, the real value is in being able to interpret this data, says Maria Prata, managing director, global FX, at Deutsche Bank in a new video interview with Profit & Loss. Acknowledging that “data” has become something of a buzzword in the FX industry […]
As CME Group prepares to announce the launch of a new platform for EBS Direct, Galen Stops has the exclusive interview with Jeff Ward, global head of EBS, about what the platform will offer and how trading venues can differentiate themselves in an increasingly data-driven environment. Galen Stops: Why did you decide that it was […]
Tradefeedr, the FX data analysis platform has partnered with Goldman Sachs, UBS & XTX Markets as the first participants on its platform. Co-founded in 2018 by industry veterans Balraj Bassi and Alexei Jiltsov, Tradefeedr is an independent intermediary which aggregates, analyses and disseminates trading information between capital market participants to aid data-driven decision making. “Today […]
Bloomberg has released a new analytics hosting service for algorithmic orders on FXGO, with Goldman Sachs being the first liquidity provider to use it. The new algorithmic order service is available on FXGO’s execution manager, a Bloomberg Launchpad function that allows clients to manage their incoming orders and subsequently route them to liquidity providers. The […]
As more institutions seek to offer algo execution, specifically involving multi-ticket orders, I sense that the approach they will have to take must differ from the first movers some years ago. As the next generation comes through it is likely to see an uptick in volumes executed by these means, which will be good news […]
The first thing to note is that the In the FICC of it podcast now available in the iTunes Store, so it will be even easier for you to get your weekly fix of our editors, Colin Lambert and Galen Stops, ranting and rambling about all the latest and greatest news in the FX industry each week! […]
