NYDFS
Two of Seed CX’s subsidiaries, Seed Digital Commodities Market (SDCM) and Zero Hash, have received approval from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for a virtual currency license. Seed CX, through its subsidiaries, offers an exchange for institutional trading and settlement of fiat and digital asset products. The firm also plans to offer […]
Regular readers will know that, with a few honourable exceptions, I don’t have the highest regard for FX strategists. It comes from bitter personal experience and, if I am honest, the surge in retail (sorry – institutional!) FX brokers seeking to give their clients insight (when all they mostly do is report the news). That said, even I would have to draw the line at FX strategists as market manipulators. According to reports at the weekend, however, this is a line that the Turkish authorities are more than willing to cross.
Scepticism abounds in this week’s In the FICC of It podcast as Colin Lambert and Galen Stops take a look at the latest bank to unveil a digital markets strategy – including all your favourite buzzwords. While Stops believes this is the latest move in what will be a growing trend, our podcasters also wonder whether it’s not really just a rebranding exercise?
They then move into more traditional areas and discuss JP Morgan’s survey on FX market conditions, and while they agree with a lot of the findings, there are one or two areas that raise an eyebrow, not least around internalisation and AI.
AI-generated trading and liquidity are also the forefront as they move on to share their thoughts around the flash crash in Jardine Matheson stock last week in Singapore, including asking the question, what does it mean for market maker programmes and certain order types?
The discussion then moves on to look at the latest FX turnover surveys from the world’s FX committees, with particular attention on three interesting/puzzling (delete as appropriate) elements of the UK report surrounding RMB, NDFs and voice brokers.
The podcast ends on with Lambert praising “the optimism of youth” after Stops highlights what he thinks could be a very important line at the end of the latest document detailing an FX-related fine in the US – in other words, the cynic in him won the day!
Coinbase Custody has obtained a license under New York State Banking Law to operate as an independent Qualified Custodian.
It will operate as a Limited Purpose Trust Company chartered by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS).
Coinbase Custody is designed as an institutional-grade service for storing large amounts of cryptocurrency in a secure manner. All assets trusted to Coinbase Custody are stored offline.
“For our customers, operating under a New York State Trust Company is more than just a new license – it’s an important piece of regulatory clarity that will allow us to compliantly store more assets and add new features like staking,” says Sam McIngvale, product lead at Coinbase, in an online post announcing the news.
In this week’s In the FICC of It podcast managing editor Colin Lambert and editor Galen Stops continue the tradition (yes, we know it’s three weeks in) of slamming a white paper from one of the world’s authorities.
To find out the winner of this week’s “obvious conclusion” prize, as well as hear their thoughts on Mark Johnson winning bail and Deutsche Bank’s fine for FX malpractice, download the podcast now.
Along the way you will also hear about a panel that was “moany”, they give a sneak peek of an exclusive story and, most importantly, they go truly off piste by giving their World Cup predictions!
Goldman Sachs has been fined $54.75 million by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for “unsafe and unsound” practices in its FX trading business.
This fine is part of a consent order that the bank has agreed to that will also see it submit to NYDFS written plans for enhanced internal controls and compliance risk management.
The fine announced today stems from an investigation by NYDFS determining that from 2008 to early 2013, Goldman Sachs FX traders participated in multi-party electronic chat rooms, where traders, sometimes using code names to discreetly share confidential customer information, discussed potentially coordinating trading activity and other efforts that could improperly affect currency prices or disadvantage customers.
