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EuroMoney 2013 FX Poll Results
Yet again the ‘Mighty Deutsche Bank’, takes ’1st place for an impressive 9th consecutive year (2013-05), in the 2013 EuroMoney FX Survey rankings. Key findings: Deutsche take 1st place for 9th...
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EBS and Reuters/FXall April FX volumes released
Three of the main FX platforms have now reported their April volumes. Reuters and FXall showed slight falls in volumes, whilst EBS showed a modest 7% increase on March. The reported volumes are as...
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Visit Caplin at the FIX Protocol APAC Trading Summit in HK
Caplin will be a sponsor at the FIX Protocol Asia Pacific Trading Summit in Hong Kong on May 23, taking place at the JW Marriott hotel. We invite conference participants to visit us at our booth and...
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BNP Paribas: New corporate FX Platform ‘Centric’
BNP Paribas has released their new corporate FX platform called Centric. According to the website: CENTRIC is a seamless multi-product application based platform, configured not only to optimise...
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Caplin Systems booth at the FIX Protocol APAC Trading Summit in Hong Kong
Caplin Systems were one of the 30+ sponsors at the FIX Protocol trading summit in Hong Kong on May 23. Randy Hebert & Scott McLeod Participants included global technology vendors, banks and...
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Tibco to acquire Streambase
Interesting to see TIBCO announcing they are to buy CEP provider Streambase. Matt Quinn, CTO of TIBCO Software says: “This combination extends our event-processing abilities and provides a terrific...
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FX multibank platforms May 2013 volumes figures
Three of the main multi-bank FX platforms have now reported their May volumes. Reuters (including spot matching and dealing platforms) showed the largest gain up 8% to $140bln/day, and EBS a modest 2%...
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Now FX fixing rates being investigated!
Bloomberg report that traders at some of the world’s biggest banks manipulated benchmark foreign-exchange rates used to set the value of trillions of dollars of investments, according to five dealers...
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Deutsche Bank Autobahn goes mobile
Deutsche Bank today announced the launch of Autobahn Mobile, a flagship initiative to make its Autobahn sales, trading and research platform available via mobile devices (although dealing is not yet...
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EBS-Best Practice in Aggregation
A timely publication by Gil Mandelzis, CEO of EBS on Best Practice in Aggregation highlights some key points: An aggregation provider aims to consolidate the liquidity streams from multiple venues to...
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Caplin Systems lead sponsor at APTAS Conference
Caplin is proud to be the lead sponsor for the Asia Pacific Trading Architecture Summit held at the Regent Hotel in Singapore on June 27. Patrick Myles, Caplin CTO, will present a white paper titled...
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New Canadian exchange will not allow HFT access
Over the past year we have seen a number of platforms in the OTC space change their rules in order to “create a more level playing field for participants”, to ensure they are not disadvantaged by those...
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EBS and Reuters/FXall June 13 FX volumes released
Three of the main FX platforms have now reported their June 13 volumes. Reuters, FXall and EBS all showed gains, with FXAll leading with a 14% monthly gain to $123bln/day, a new all time record for the...
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Is FX heading for Equity style ‘All-2-All’ market?
Latest research from GreySpark looks at the regulatory and structural changes that are impacting the global FX market, and draws some interesting conclusions. The report Trends in FX Trading 2013...
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The business case for SDPs remains strong
Single-Dealer Platforms, were once the preserve of the global top-tier ‘flow monster’ banks such as Deutsche, Citi, Barclays and UBS. Requiring board level sponsorship and mega investment to build and...
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BofE FX Survey Data shows record $2,547bln/day (very interesting read)
The Bank of England today released their latest semi-annual FX turnover survey results for April 2013. Highlights Record Daily FX vol of $2,547bln, +26% on Oct 2012, (+26% YoY) Spot vols +38% to...
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Sefs and ‘Permitted Transactions’
Another interesting development in the adoption of the SEF rules which come into force today. In addition to listing mandated products (that are mandated to trade on a SEF and be cleared via a CCP), a...
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The value of FX Flows
What’s the value to a bank of seeing client FX flows? Any FX trader worth their salt, will swear there is value in seeing ‘certain’ client flows, and greater value if you see it first, and can act on...
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EBS and Reuters/FXall July 13 FX vols released
The three main OTC FX platforms have now reported their July 13 volumes. Reuters, EBS and FXAll all saw double digit falls, with EBS suffering the most down -$40bln/day to $89bln/day a drop of 31% from...
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SEF registrations to date
With less than a month to go till the closing date for SEF registration (2nd October), we have another two platforms, both Inter-Dealer Brokers (IDBs) Tullet-Prebon and ICAP submitting their SEF...
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