Corporates
NatWest Markets’ Jacintha Love, head of Agile Markets products, and Jeremy Maw, head of UK mid corporate FX sales, talk about the nuances of building e-FX solutions for corporate clients. Profit & Loss: So why have corporate clients been a big focus for you on the e-FX side? Jeremy Maw: Corporates are a huge part […]
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 […]
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 – […]
“The biggest driver for the industry last year was regulation. It created a sea of change in the way that markets actually behave,” says Tod Van Name, global head of FX electronic trading at Bloomberg. MiFID II was obviously the major piece of regulation driving this change in 2018, but although this regulation only applied to firms operating in Europe, Van Name says it caused a much broader push globally to raise market transparency, track trade details, and justify all of the decisions made around trade execution. While it represented a big lift for many multi-dealer platforms, this was especially acute for a firm like Bloomberg, which offers such a wide array of securities and instruments that trade across many asset classes and to a diverse range of client types.
“The biggest driver for the industry last year was regulation. It created a sea of change in the way that markets actually behave,” says Tod Van Name, global head of FX electronic trading at Bloomberg. MiFID II was obviously the major piece of regulation driving this change in 2018, but although this regulation only applied to firms operating in Europe, Van Name says it caused a much broader push globally to raise market transparency, track trade details, and justify all of the decisions made around trade execution. While it represented a big lift for many multi-dealer platforms, this was especially acute for a firm like Bloomberg, which offers such a wide array of securities and instruments that trade across many asset classes and to a diverse range of client types.
Kyriba, a provider of cloud treasury and finance solutions, has reached an agreement to acquire FiREapps, a firm that provides enterprise currency management solutions to corporate treasuries.“FX volatility is a major strategic challenge for treasury organisations,” says Kevin Permenter, senior research analyst for enterprise applications at IDC, a technology analyst firm. “Financial leaders doing business in multiple countries should be looking to adopt a more holistic approach to their global risk management strategies.”In a release issued today, Kyriba says: “The acquisition will create a highly advanced solution for managing global FX risk, including data gathering and consolidation, reporting, analytics, decision support, payments, hedge accounting and more. The combined result is a faster, more efficient way to manage FX exposures than using old school processes involving spreadsheets and manual data gathering across multiple systems.”
The band is back together again in this week’s podcast as Galen Stops returns from a short holiday to join Colin Lambert to discuss all things currency – this week (much to the relief of P&L’s audio engineers) with no interruptions from wildlife or pool attendants!
Listen is as they highlight growing concerns in the industry that it may be harder to spread the word about the FX Global Code than previously thought, thanks to the realities of life on buy side and vendor side. On the subject of transparency and ethics, Lambert is keen to talk about the new phenomena of “full amount” trading in FX markets and Stops expresses his feelings about the proposed Code of Conduct for cryptocurrency markets.
As always there is room for the random, so why does Lambert want a merger between the new digital assets association and the recently renamed Wholesale Markets Brokers Association? Listen in to find out.
Shell’s Foreign Exchange Central Treasury business has implemented a Bloomberg service that connects its subsidiaries globally.
The solution is now available for use by any corporate treasury operation in the world, Bloomberg announced today.
The new technology was built by Bloomberg in collaboration with Shell and connects the company’s central treasury office directly to its 718 operating units in 22 countries, so they can quickly and electronically exchange information. The functionality aims to help Shell manage its group risk with more than 200 distinct bank counterparties via the Bloomberg Terminal.
FiREapps, a firm that provides technology to corporates that enables them to automate the analysis and management of currency data and exposures, has expanded its software offering from currency risk management to enterprise currency management (ECM).
ECM solutions enable treasury and finance professionals to assess, mitigate and report currency impacts on corporate financial statements and results.
But FiREapps says that what is more important than this is that the latest ECM solutions give financial planning and analysis (FP&A), supply chain and other finance professionals access to a common currency data platform that can be used to help avoid currency impacts, set and manage expectations of how currencies impact the business and make it easier to quickly and confidently answer currency-related questions from stakeholders.
Thai energy company, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), has implemented Refinitiv’s FXall trading platform and “Settlement Center” post-trade solution for managing its FX transactions.
Because PTTEP already uses Eikon, this maks it the first Thai corporate to adopt the end-to-end suite of services covering pre-trade, trade and post-trade phases, according to a statement. PTTEP executed its first production trades in early October.
Yongyos Krongphanich, executive vice president, finance and accounting group at PTTEP, comments: “This collaboration between PTTEP and Refinitiv is considered an important step for PTTEP in managing its foreign exchange risk management and streamline back-end processes. This will further improve company’s competitiveness and support sustainable growth in this challenging digital era.”
