In the past few weeks new offerings have been announced from the CME and Reuters, Deutsche Bank (see: Space 2007: an FX market odyssey?, Euromoney June 2006), Calyon Financial and Lava. Meanwhile, UBS has confirmed it is not launching a new platform aimed at the retail segment but rather that it is enhancing its electronic offering to its private client base. Elsewhere, former EBS chief executive Peter Bartko has pitched up at eSpeed, where he is rumoured to be overseeing another foray into the market, and Currenex has added a host of new bells and whistles to its platform to please the algorithmic trading fraternity.
So it seems that despite all the talk of industry consolidation, the FX market is still fragmenting. It is one of those contradictions that seem to define it. They used to...
