Lee Oliver

Recent stories by Lee Oliver

• Charles-Henri Sabet bites back in Saxo saga

  Swiss commission investigation is unwarranted, claims suspended.

  Euromoney November 2008

• Trade processing: A utility from Wall Street

  A good deal has already been written about the relatively high cost, at least when compared with many other markets, of processing trades in foreign exchange.

  Euromoney November 2008

• Exchange-traded contracts: Sprecher talks his book

  News that ICE is to relaunch its FX contracts gets a cool reception.

  Euromoney November 2008

• FX round up: The new sub-prime?

  The huge losses being reported by corporates from emerging markets around the world suggest that not all is as rosy in FX as might have been reported.

  Euromoney November 2008

• FX round up: Fallout at Commerz

  Euromoney November 2008

• CLS Bank: CLS passes the Lehman test

  Despite initial fears, the foreign exchange market appears to have handled Lehman Brothers’ collapse into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection remarkably well. According to Rob Close, chief executive of CLS Bank, which settles the bulk of the market’s transactions, few deals that had Lehman as a counterparty were rescinded.

  Euromoney October 2008

• FX futures: Competition comes to exchange-traded FX

  The relaunch of FX futures by Ice finally provides the CME with some proper competition.

  Euromoney October 2008

• Electronic trading: Deutsche has problems rolling over

  Euromoney October 2008

• FX market round-up: Millennium wins Aussie mandate

  Euromoney October 2008

• FX market round-up: Saxo cuts workforce

  Euromoney October 2008

• FX market round-up: JPM launches new platform, becomes CCP to Currenex

  Euromoney October 2008

• Exchange rates: Sterling has summertime blues

  "Our long-term view remains – we will eventually see 1.60 for cable and parity for EUR/GBP" -Paul Day, Mig Investments

  Euromoney September 2008

• India: Futures get off to modest start in India

  Euromoney September 2008

• China: Travelex gets green light

  Bureau de change claims liberalization of country’s regulations.

  Euromoney September 2008

• Saxo Bank: Saxo suspends executive pending regulator's investigation

  Euromoney September 2008

• FX market round up: State Street role for Puth

  Euromoney September 2008

• FX market round up: StanChart takes McDonald away

  Euromoney September 2008

• FX market round up: CLS makes senior hire

  Euromoney September 2008

• FX research: Beware the central bankers

  BNP Paribas argues coordinated action to support the dollar can work.

  Euromoney August 2008

• Trading models: New model army on the march

  It seems astonishing that misuse of models still takes place in the foreign exchange market. But there is no doubt it does, although the industry’s self-imposed code of Omertà means that even those cases that seemingly everyone knows about rarely get exposed.

  Euromoney August 2008