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The Swiss competition authority, the Competition Commission, has become the latest jurisdiction to levy fines on six banks related to their dealers’ activity in several chat rooms. COMCO says it has detected several anti-competitive arrangements between banks in foreign exchange spot trading and concluded “amicable” settlements and imposed fines of around CHF 90 million. Therefore, […]
Former head of FX prime brokerage at Citi Sanjay Madgavkar has joined Integral Development’s executive team as chief strategy officer and head of business development. Madgavkar has spent much of his career at Citi and brings more than 20 years of experience in every aspect of foreign exchange to Integral. He will be responsible for […]
Australia has become the latest location for a class action lawsuit against a group of banks with a law firm filing a cartel class action in the Australian Federal Court claiming the banks “systematically manipulated foreign exchange rates to boost profits at the expense of Australian businesses and investors”. In what has become a familiar […]
The European Union has formally fined five banks a total of EUR 1.07 billion for taking part in what the EU terms two “cartels” in the spot FX market, involving trades in 11 currencies. Two settlement decisions have been announced, the first involves a group called the “Three Way Banana Split” which sees a total […]
Micky Roberts has retired from Citi in London where he was on the hedge fund sales desk. His last day was Friday April 26. Roberts started in the foreign exchange market in 1978 at voice broking firm MW Marshalls and rose through the ranks to run the USD/DEM desk which was, at the time, the […]
Traiana has made changes to its Credit Risk Hub that will enable FX prime brokers (FXPBs) to define trade information in more detail in order to increase credit risk controls and reduce the risks of credit over-allocation. Traiana’s Credit Risk Hub comprises two services; Designation Notice Manager (DNM), which helps FXPBs establish, monitor, amend and […]
This year Profit & Loss decided to update the format and judging categories of our annual Digital FX Awards. The process remains subjective but we have not restricted ourselves to the narrow confines of previous years’ categories. Instead of many of the categories, we have created Awards for Excellence in e-FX, something that we believe […]
Pulse It is fair to say, we think, that Citi’s Pulse is the ultimate corporate solution, so much so that this is the ninth year in a row it has won a Digital FX Award. As a workflow solution it is par excellence but its real strength lies in the nuances and flexibility around the […]
P&L Report Card The mood amongst the FX businesses on the street can be easily summed up by one comment from a senior manager that was repeated in various forms, several times over, during the demonstration process for these awards – “the bank sees the value in the FX franchise because it is less capital […]
Yi Hahn Chin, MD and regional head of e-FX solutions – corporates, EMEA at Citi, talks about the most recent regional rollout of the bank’s e-FX platform for corporates, and the broader challenges associated with deploying this technology in emerging markets. Profit & Loss: Talk me through the roll out of Pulse in Nigeria – […]
