What will it take to stay top of the FX class?

Financial markets are always dynamic places and constantly evolving as they embrace change. Today’s foreign exchange market is no exception and it is arguably developing at a faster pace than at any other time in its history. So how will it look in five years’ time? Lee Oliver asks leading FX participants to peer into the crystal ball.

A JOURNEY BACK five years to Euromoney’s 2002 foreign exchange poll (May 2002) shows that we identified a dominant theme of market consolidation then. We suggested that the market appeared set for domination by just five banks – much as today – and that consolidation was supposedly going to lead to a reduction in the number of trading venues, possibly to the extent that activity would become concentrated on just one. We wrote: “There’s no doubt that barriers to entry are rising in forex.

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