FX: Last-look acceptance still boils down to caveat emptor

It has just received a very public vote of no-confidence from non-bank liquidity providers, but concerns around transparency are yet to outweigh the perceived benefits of last look.

Last look in the FX market is under scrutiny again. 

In August, six non-bank liquidity providers – Citadel Securities, Flow Traders, HC Tech, Jump Trading, Virtu Financial and XTX Markets – issued statements criticizing the practice.

This followed the publication of data on Risk.net indicating that one-in-four of the top 50 liquidity providers do not publicly disclose how they use it.

Last look gives market makers a final opportunity to reject an order after a client commits to trade at a quoted price.

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