Foreign exchange: Yours, mine, AI!

AI is no longer just assisting FX trading – it is starting to outperform human judgement, reshape pricing, and streamline sales and compliance. From ING’s fully autonomous trading algos to Commerzbank’s AI-powered call transcription, a future that we once could only imagine is now rapidly becoming reality. But as machines learn and scale, how should their human handlers approach questions of trust, cost and control?

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In 2019, Kevin Rodgers, the former global head of FX at Deutsche Bank, made a prediction for Euromoney: forecasting that in 20 years’ time currency trading would be run by completely automated firms, populated by self-governing AIs without any human involvement.

Six years on, this vision looks compellingly prescient. FX markets have long left behind the smoke-filled trading floors where yells of yours, mine! (shag) reverberated five days a week from early hours into late nights.

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