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Foreign Exchange: Latest
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Euromoney talks to Jacques Levet, chief digital officer at BNP Paribas, about the competitive advantage that newly acquired FX fintech Kantox offers.
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Market participants have welcomed recent moves to enhance FX liquidity by increasing the efficiency of credit payments for trades.
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The frontrunner in the Argentine presidential election campaign has said he wants to abolish the peso and replace it with the US dollar. Is it blue-sky thinking or just greenback dreaming?
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European corporates have been the big losers from lower overall FX market volatility in the first half of 2023 as EUR/USD normalised while the yen and yuan continued to struggle.
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Despite suggestions that corporates in North America are keen to work with a wider variety of FX counterparties, global banks are relaxed about the potential impact of March’s banking crisis on this lucrative business line.
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Analysts are looking beyond China for clues as to where the main Asian currencies will go over the remainder of 2023 as they try to second-guess Japan’s monetary policy plans.
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With artificial intelligence already widely used for tasks such as trend analysis, the focus has turned to how artificial general intelligence could chat with FX traders to help them fine-tune their decisions, as well as automate order execution and currency monitoring.
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Faster securities settlement raises the spectre of increased FX risk as brokers work through the challenges of achieving simultaneous execution of equity and currency trades.
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New entrants into the FX market raise the challenge for the body responsible for rules governing FX derivatives, as it mulls the possibility of future updates to how these products are documented and traded.
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Extreme FX volatility is proving a challenge for some finance directors who are struggling to minimize the impact on their bottom line.
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The standardized approach for counterparty credit risk has not yet proved to be the catalyst for greater use of clearing in the FX market that some expected.
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Recent developments in crypto have hardened the view that convergence between digital and fiat currency trading structures is both inevitable and desirable.
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The acquisitive fintech group reckons it can accelerate the transition from legacy FX technology by making it easier for tech firms to get their products to market.
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Disagreement over where US interest rates are going has split opinion on overall prospects for emerging market currencies.
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Central limit order book venues have done well during the past 12 months, but it would be premature to view this as a permanent shift in trading preference.
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Big foreign-exchange banks are focussing on enhanced functionality to promote greater use of single-dealer platforms.
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The IMF will have its work cut out generating support for its proposal for a multilateral platform for cross-border payments and related foreign-exchange transactions.
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The volume of FX trading where there is a possibility of one or more parties failing to deliver on the terms of the trade has prompted various initiatives to find better options for settlement – but the talk is still more about potential than delivery.
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When the news broke that Argentina was thinking of merging its currency with that of its neighbour, Brazil, my immediate question was: which Argentine peso?
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While no one is willing to bet the farm on anything other than dollar depreciation in 2023, mixed messages from the Fed, and economic and political uncertainty elsewhere mean the greenback could yet defy expectations.
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Some leading FX banks have struggled to stay competitive in forwards, swaps and swaptions thanks to SA-CCR rules, but compressing portfolios helps.
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Going all out to keep the sell side sweet seems a sensible strategy for success in the difficult P2P FX market.
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With little likelihood of currency volatility subsiding any time soon, corporates continue to face difficult decisions when it comes to how best to mitigate FX risk.