Societe Generale
Societe Generale (SocGen) has gone live and is trading with clients via its price streaming service on FXSpotStream, which it joined as a liquidity provider in May. SocGen is the 15th LP on the service, which also includes Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan […]
Societe Generale has become the 15th liquidity provider to join FX SpotStream – it joins just months after Barclays was unveiled as LP number 14. “After announcing the addition of Barclays last quarter, we continue the momentum and are pleased to welcome Societe Generale as the 15th liquidity provider on our Service – we expect […]
Despite a slight dip in performance in December, CTAs experienced their best year since 2014, according to data from Societe Generale (SG). Following positive gains in November the SG CTA Index ended December down 0.65%. All of the SG indices closed the year in positive territory, with the SG CTA Index and the Short-Term Traders […]
In a white paper released jointly, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Allianz, Citi, Societe Generale, State Street, T. Rowe Price, and Vanguard, have presented detailed recommendations from both buy-side and sell-side perspectives to further enhance the safety and soundness of central counterparties (CCPs. The firms say that while CCPs have been increasingly relied upon to protect […]
CTAs gave back some of August’s gains in September, closing the month down 3.21%, according to data from Societe Generale (SG). The SG CTA Index is still up 8.58% for the year, however. Trend followers were hit the most in September with the SG Trend Index down 5.27%, whilst short-term CTAs limited losses to 1.27%. […]
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 […]
JP Morgan and Societe Generale have invested in fintech firm, Wematch, a company that provides technology to augment how traders at banks match, negotiate and manage trades that are currently predominantly voice-traded, thus bringing, according to the firm, the audit and control benefits of electronic tools to voice trading, delivered as web-based software-as-a-service technology. Wematch says there are now […]
Following a strong July, CTAs reported positive performance again in August, according to data from Societe Generale (SG). The SG CTA Index was up 3.45%, adding to gains of over 10% year-to-date for these firms, which would put them on track for their best year since 2014. Short-term CTAs also made performance gains in August, […]
Societe Generale (SG) is now supporting Eurex FX futures, from clearing to trading. SG’s clients will now be able to trade FX on Eurex, while any of the exchange’s clients will be able to execute bilaterally off-exchange against the bank or to move between OTC FX and listed FX using exchange for physical (EFP). Chris […]
Former Deutsche Bank trader and managing director Andreas Hauschild has been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud at London’s Southwark Crown Court over the rigging of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) after being found not guilty of manipulating the benchmark rate during global financial crisis. The case was brought by the UK”s Serious Fraud Office […]
