Technology
‘Back to normal’ – three simple words, and a world of meaning. For those in the UK, Monday, 23rd March 2020 marked the point at which everyone’s life changed. Lockdown has had, amongst many other effects, a profound impact on how and where we work and the very nature of the job we do. The […]
Conditions in FX markets are deteriorating steadily according to market sources as liquidity providers (LP) ration precious resources and battle widespread shut downs of offices. Spreads, which have been gradually widening over the past few days, have continued to do so Monday with dealers reporting top of book spreads on FX platforms anywhere from between […]
Keith Hill, an advisory board member at Caplin Systems who will be speaking at Profit & Loss’ Latin America event on March 25 in Mexico City, talks about the technological evolution of the crypto markets in relation to traditional FX. Profit & Loss: People of course associate Caplin with the FX market, what is your […]
Chris Soriano, executive director, head of cash emerging markets, Americas at EBS, will be speaking at the Profit & Loss Latin America event in Mexico City on March 25. Ahead of the event, he discusses the key opportunities and challenges facing firms trading NDFs, both in LatAm and globally. Profit & Loss: What do you […]
Tradair announces the launch of a new front-end technology that is being applied across all of its platform user interfaces. This new front end includes modernisation that leverage the React framework while offering additional features for both the trading application and Business Intelligence (BI) solution. The React framework is a third-party javascript library, which includes […]
Profit & Loss talks to Vibhanshu Bahuguna, regional manager, APAC, at TradAir, about how technology is changing the FX businesses of regional banks, how firms should be differentiating between various white label product offerings and where to expect growth amongst EM currencies. Profit & Loss: The latest BIS figures show that the volume of FX […]
In a new video interview with Profit & Loss Fred Allatt, managing director — FX sales at INTL FCStone Markets, details how his firm has adapted its model for accessing FX liquidity. In the interview Allatt reflects on his 15 years in the FX industry, noting that the market has changed significantly in terms of […]
Integral has partnered with Jefferies to launch a new liquidity network called TrueFX, which aims to leverage the former’s technology and the latter’s credit intermediation services to reduce trading costs for buy side firms, which includes retail brokers, macro hedge funds, prime of primes, and regional banks. Essentially, the aim of this initiative is to […]
Does FX still have the ability to innovate the way that it did 20 years ago? Galen Stops finds the industry divided on this important question. When Profit & Loss launched 20 years ago, the FX market looked very different than it does today. Much of the industry was still trading via voice channels, pricing […]
This week’s podcast opens with Galen Stops, editor of Profit & Loss, doing some gloating because the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published its latest triennial survey of the FX market and the figures confirm the prediction made by Stops at the beginning of the year that the market would get back to growth. […]
