Citi
This week’s podcast begins with Galen Stops, editor of Profit & Loss, giving his perspective on the attempts by US politicians to grill a Facebook representative regarding the planned launch of its new cryptocurrency, libra. Stops highlights the good, the bad and the ugly from the Senate and House hearings, but when Colin Lambert, managing […]
In this week’s podcast Colin Lambert gets to air some long-held grievances at market structure change when Galen Stops asks him, “any thoughts on the Deutsche Bank job cuts?” Our two podcasters look at the function of risk in the market, as well as the potential impact of what Lambert sees as a steady shift […]
A new survey from Citi shows that gaining visibility of their FX exposures remains a core concern for corporate treasurers. In the survey, which includes responses from 400 corporates of varying sizes, industries and geographies, improving cash forecasting was cited most frequently as the top priority amongst these firms. “Firms are recognising that they still […]
The news this week that Citi served a 90-day notice to the largest non-bank market making firms in FX – including Jump Trading, XTX Markets, Virtu Financial, HC Technologies and, at an earlier point in time, GTS – that it is no longer willing to offer them FX prime brokerage (PB) services, certainly got tongues […]
In this week’s lively and extended podcast Colin Lambert and Galen Stops mange to disagree on just about everything as they dig into the details around the announcement that Citi has given notice to four of the biggest non-bank market makers in FX and discuss the potential implications for the industry as a whole. They […]
Despite the geopolitical situation worldwide becoming more volatile, FX markets have stayed relatively idle, leaving speakers at the Profit & Loss Forex Network London event to wonder what has caused this disparity. In recent months, news of geopolitical volatility – from Brexit woes to an intensifying trade war between China and the United States – […]
Citi is creating a single rates and currencies business line by integrating FXLM and G10 rates. An internal memo seen by Profit & Loss explains that the two existing businesses have a neighbouring product set, share corporate sales, structuring and a significant technology stack. Therefore, it says that combining them will create “a more streamlined […]
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 […]
