HSBC
Documents published by the East London Employment Tribunal indicate that former HSBC global head of FX and commodities, Frederic Boillereau, has brought an action against four senior managers at the bank as well as the institution itself. The first day of the hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28 and HSBC, former head of global […]
HSBC has launched a new service, FX Flexpay, which enables clients to make automated, international payments in more than 140 currencies, using a single API. FX Flexpay connects Global Disbursements – the bank’s system for cross-border, low value mass payments – with FX FlexRate, HSBC’s proprietary FX pricing technology that guarantees FX rates or offers […]
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed civil enforcement action in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Christophe Rivoire, former global head of flow rates at HSBC in New York, charging him with engaging in a deceptive scheme to manipulate the pricing of an interest rate swap between […]
Mark Johnson’s legal team has filed a petition to have his appeal reheard or reheard “en banc”, before the entire bench of active appeal circuit judges, as he seeks to have his conviction for wire fraud overturned. In September Johnson lost an appeal in front of three appeal court judges, however his team has filed […]
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued six banks with regulatory orders over reporting failures. The six banks; Bank of New York Mellon, HSBC, Natwest Markets, Northern Trust, PNC Bank and Societe Generale were collectively fined more than $6 million over the failures – Northern Trust and SocGen were also charged with failure […]
Data is increasingly becoming the cornerstone of FX market participants’ business models, but what does this mean more broadly for the industry? This will be one of the key questions addressed on the panel session, “Learning to Thrive in Data Driven Markets” at the Profit & Loss Scandinavia conference taking place on October 10th in […]
In what may be a significant decision for the foreign exchange industry, former HSBC head of cash FX trading Mark Johnson has lost his appeal to have his conviction and sentence overturned in the US. In their decision, justices Calabresi, Lohier and Donnelly, say: “We conclude that there was sufficient evidence to convict Johnson on […]
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 […]
I have had a chance now to listen to the oral arguments given in the Mark Johnson appeal and while my underlying belief that this is a wrong conviction remains unshaken it is also clear to me that few involved in this case from the legal fraternity actually understand foreign exchange markets and how they […]
I may, not for the first time, be reading too much into a brief sentence, but I found it significant in my conversation with Simon Potter, outgoing chair of the Global FX Committee, that when talking about the review of the Code he mentioned “the handling of larger orders” as one area of possible review. […]
