FX credit management: Keeping up with the bots

Credit is not allocated or managed correctly at trading venues in real time and the person bearing the credit risk is often the last to know. 

That, at least, is the view of Adrian Patten, co-founder and chairman of Cobalt, an FX-focused fintech company, in a recent market commentary. To make things worse, Patten adds, many risk systems sit downstream and are slow, requiring manual processes.

Patten’s comments were made in the context of promoting Cobalt’s own low-latency credit-management solution, and need to be seen in that light.