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GFXC Releases Initial Views on Anonymous Venue Disclosures

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As part of its report on disclosures and transparency, the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) has unveiled some initial views on a second stream of work by its disclosures working group on practices in the anonymous e-trading platform sector.
The work centred on the knowledge of counterparties and expectations around counterparty behaviour, although the report does note that given that the landscape of e-trading platforms is diverse with different features and business models across infrastructure providers and users, the working group will continue work to consider this portion of the disclosure landscape

GFXC Publishes Disclosures Report

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A Global Foreign Exchange Committee working group has released a paper on the role of disclosure and transparency in FX markets intended to serve as a source of information for market participants seeking to learn about, develop and navigate the FX disclosure landscape. The paper is the work of a special working group set up by the GFXC to study the issue after feedback on last look practices highlighted concerns amongst participants that disclosures and transparency levels could be enhanced.

GFXC Survey Confirms Increased Code Adoption, but Work Still Required

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The 2018 FX Global Code Survey results have been released and while, expectedly, the last year saw significantly increased adoption rates amongst firms, there are areas of potential concern for proponents of the Code.
The survey aims to measure the awareness, adoption, implementation, and effects of the Global Code for market participants. The GFXC says the information collected through the 2018 survey is an important input as it continues to promote, maintain, and update the Code and embed it in the fabric of foreign exchange markets.

“Cover and Deal? Model Requires Role Disclosure – GFXC

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A second working group set up by the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) in 2018 to look at how market participants operating the “cover and deal” model utilise last look has published a paper highlighting areas in which it believes practice can be improved. Primarily, the report stresses the importance of those operating cover and deal models ensuring that there is adequate disclosure of the practice, the way in which it is being used, and the clarification of the role and capacity in which the participant acts.

And Finally…

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The FX industry is advancing how it deals with certain issues, but the pipeline of areas in need of clarification and further debate shows little sign of slowing down. Two areas that concern me at the moment are exactly how platform operators are enforcing their rulebooks – are they being fair and balanced to both LPs and LCs? – and exactly what constitutes “full amount” trading? An open and data-backed discussion will solve the latter, but I wonder if we need an industry ombudsman for the former?

The Buy Side and the Global Code: Patience Required

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Much has been made of the low buy side sign up to the FX Global Code, but as Colin Lambert finds out, it is likely only to be a matter of time.

Talk to senior members of the Global FX Committee and one can discern a sense of exasperation when they are asked (probably for the tenth time that day) about the lack of buy side adoption of the FX Global Code. The exasperation stems from what is the thorn in the side of the GFXC that is low adoption rates.

Global FXC Names Leadership Team, Reports on Progress

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The Global Foreign Exchange Committee has named Simon Potter executive vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as chair for a one-year term. At its meeting this week in Johannesburg, it also nominated and elected Adrian Boehler, global co-head of FXLM and commodity derivatives at BNP Paribas, and Akira Hoshino, senior fellow and managing director, head of global markets trading at MUFG Bank, to serve together as co-vice chairs for a two-year term.
Speaking to Profit & Loss after what Potter says was a very productive meeting, he is keen to stress the diversity and engagement represented by the GFXC.

Thomson Reuters’ Penney to Join GFXC

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Neill Penney, co-head of Trading at Thomson Reuters, will serve as the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee’s (FXJSC) private sector representative on the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC). 

The FX Global Code was launched in May 2017 to promote integrity, fairness, transparency and effective functioning of the global foreign exchange markets. Alongside the launch of the Code, the GFXC was established to promote and maintain the Code and to facilitate communication between local foreign exchange committees around the world, each of which appoints two members to the GFXC, one from the private sector and one from the public sector.

Puth’s Term with GFXC Comes to a Close in June

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David Puth, Vice Chair of the Global FX Committee (GFXC), will be completing his term in this role with the group he helped form next month.

Puth, who is the CEO of CLS Group, has been heavily involved in the creation of the Global Code, the first iteration of which was released in May 2016, and then published in its final form in May 2017. Firms were anticipated to commit adherence by around the one-year anniversary in May.

When work on the Global Code first began, it was in the form of a public/private sector partnership, with Puth leading the private sector side through the Market Participants Group (MPG), which worked together, but separately, with the public sector side, led by the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Deputy Governor Guy Debelle.

FX Global Code Passes Milestone

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With just over a month to go before adherence is expected of market participants, the Global FX Committee (GFXC) has announced that “well over” 100 Market Participants have now made Statements of Commitment to the FX Global Code less than one year after its launch.
The majority of these statements can be found on the eight public registers around the world that have similarly launched since the release of the Code, however there is no obligation to publish a statement on a register.

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