CLS offers forex products divided into forward, swap and spot. The ADV of FX forwards went slightly down in October. It stood a $102 billion last month, slightly lower that the $114, seen in September 2021 and the $ 117 CLS registered in October 2020. FX swaps ADV reached $1.319 trillion last month, 10% up…
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The Group also reported a 4% YoY rise FX forward and 2% YoY increase in FX swap with $79 billion and $1.2 trillion for August 2021, respectively. FX spot volumes were down 5% on yearly basis, accounting for $0.36 trillion. On monthly basis, FX forward was down 5.9%, FX swaps by 0.6% and FX spot…
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The cross-currency swaps service is an extension of CLS’s PvP settlement service. It also uses the MarkitSERV trade confirmation platform to enable members of CLSSettlement to send their cross-currency swaps for settlement. The cross-currency swap flows are multilaterally netted against all other FX transactions in CLSSettlement, which results in a meaningful reduction in daily funding…
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Currently, Shuta Okawara works as Managing Director and Head of the Transactions Services Division of MUFG Bank. His career has been mainly focused on extensively around custody and clearing. Okawara has been engaged with most settlement systems reform initiatives that have led to mitigating settlement risks and standardizing securities and currencies settlement processes as we…
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The forward and spot FX market saw 2% increase in volumes, reaching $0.117 trillion and $0.483, respectively. The numbers in these sections of the market remained lower compared to the ones reported during the same period in 2020. CLS’s Global Head of Product, Keith Tippell, commented: In the first quarter of 2021, we witnessed record…
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In January 2021, the average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was $1.92 trillion, rising 9% month-over-month from $1.76 trillion in December 2020. Worked out across a yearly timetable, the figure can be seen to be up 8.5% relative to January 2020’s figure of $1.77 trillion. According to CLS’s Head of Information Services, Masami Johnstone,…
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Further to this, Alfa-Bank and FAB are the first in their respective domiciles of Russia and the UAE to join CLSNet. This highlights the growing capabilities of CLSNet to include a broader segment of the global FX market community. Keith Tippell, Global Head of Product, CLS, commented: The addition of these emerging market leaders demonstrates…
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Bitcoin broke records yesterday by soaring through its previous all-time high, up more than 15% in the past 24 hours. At the time of writing yesterday, bitcoin was trading around $22,838 – well above any previous high achieved by the cryptoasset. In its wake other peers such as ethereum are also soaring. ETH has hit a…
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Margaret Law, Head of Client Management, APAC at CLS, commented: With the growth of FX trading particularly in Asian currencies, settlement risk has become an increasing concern for banks in the region, and it is essential that they consider executing appropriate FX settlement risk mitigation measures. We anticipate that other banks in Asia Pacific will…
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CLS’s Head of Information Services, Masami Johnstone, commented: Daily traded volumes in November were USD1.79 trillion, up 4.7% compared to October 2020. Both FX spot and FX swap volumes increased compared to the previous month by 15.7% and 3.1%, respectively, while FX forward volumes decreased by 15.5%. Compared to November 2019, FX spot and swap…
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