ThinkLiquidity today announced the launch of a transaction scoring system featured in its new web application QuantView. The patent pending system…
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The Great FX Liquidity Debate: CFH senior executives discuss how to succeed in emerging markets
CFH Clearing senior executive Nick Mortimer and CFH Systems’ Regional Director Fernando Andrade speak candidly to LeapRate about the need to take FX liquidity and prime brokerage solutions to new and exciting markets, and, importantly, how to go about it successfully in terms of execution model, cost, and order flow management
Read MoreThe future of prime brokerage, execution model and expansion into emerging markets: Mushegh Tovmasyan explains
Direct from the FXIC Latin America conference in Mexico City, Divisa Capital CEO Mushegh Tovmasyan takes a close look at the internal components of prime brokerage, liquidity provision and execution model, whilst looking to the future of expansion into exciting and emerging markets
Read MoreCan combining A-book and B-book execution be the antidote to negative client balances? So says Synergy FX
Australia’s Synergy FX now offers hybrid accounts in which the execution method combines aspects of A-book and aspects of B-book execution in order to protect clients against exposure to negative balances resulting from extreme market volatility as per the events of January 15 this year
Read MoreOp Ed: The day that Russia stood still
Andrew Saks-McLeod takes a look at the different reactions by different electronic trading entities following the measures taken last week by many companies whilst Russia’s economy floundered and ruble liquidity dried up
Read MoreBasel Committee takes a look at market making, prop traders and liquidity provision
Global regulatory authorities have been busily engaged in ascertaining the most effective method of regulating various business-critical activities in electronic…
Read MoreGold-i launches new Visual Edge for retail brokers to manage their own order flow
The ability to manage risk within retail brokerages is sometimes the preserve of the prime brokerage or liquidity provider. Gold-i’s new profitability enhancing tool provides hybrid A and B book brokers to tailor strategies for specific clients
Read MoreThe b-book set to linger on for years to come despite consumer demand for agency model
LeapRate takes an in-depth view into the possibility that trade execution practices may remain relatively unchanged for a number of years, and despite a switch to the agency model by many market participants, banks responsible for large scale order flow may take longer to let go of the b-book
Read MoreIntegral launches cloud-based FX risk management solution
FX Yield Manager has gone live today, developed by Integral Development Corporation as the first cloud-based FX risk management suite, designed to provide automated customer profiling, risk warehousing and best execution within an end-to-end risk management process for FX banks and brokers
Read MoreThe b-book is alive and well, even as volatility increases
As the policy within many trading desks and institutional companies with regard to trade internalization remains unchanged, increasing volatility and regulatory attention may result in restructuring of execution policy industry wide
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