According to the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey of foreign exchange volumes, in 2013, almost $5.3 trillion in currencies globally are traded daily. The increasing…
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The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT announced today that their global legal entity identifier (LEI) solution had progressed at a robust pace since its August, 2012 launch with more than 47,000
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AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of foreign payment solutions, with international payment expertise around the globe, today announced the launch of an enhanced version of AFEXDirect™.
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FENICS® Software Ltd, a GFI Group Inc. company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with 360 Treasury Systems AG "360T" to embed the FENICS FX Options Pricing engine (FENICS ePricer) into 360T's TEX mult
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This article on gtnews by Bloomberg's Alison Fletcher describes a new attitude they see developing among treasurers world-wide. She believes that the traditional approach where corporate treasurers focused on lookin
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Tangent Capital Partner Senior Managing Director Jim Rickards talks about currency wars and his investment strategy in an interview with on Bloomberg.
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At the recent Cash Management University in Paris, BNP Paribas explained how there are now five ways to release trapped cash in China:
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In a session at NACHA's 2012 Global Payments Strategies Conference, Alfred Nader, vice president, corporate strategy and development at Western Union Business Solutions, urged corporates to trade in renminbi with th
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Deutsche Bank's eFX team have launched an e-newsletter to keep clients up-to-date and to show off their services.
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The annual FX market turnover is some $4 trillion per day (Bank for International Settlements) and FX has been one of the largest sources of bank trading profits for many years. Yet it is all too easy to accept the
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RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a global trading solutions provider, and Squared Financial Services Limited, a broker offering ECN-style trading across a broad mix of liquidity pools, announced today that they had
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Standard Chartered today announced the launch of the Standard Chartered Renminbi Globalisation Index (RGI) – the first industry benchmark that effectively tracks the progress of Renminbi-based business activity worl
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In their presentation on FX exposure management, Rob Waddell and Mark Stegman from Brown-Forman, the 'producer and marketer of fine quality beverage alcohol brands', they listed the key takeaways from their experi
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The fascinating presentation by Bob Elliot, Assistant Treasurer Global Cash Management, Eaton Corporation and Cindy Krause, Treasury Advisor, KeyBank entitled 'From Data Point to Decision: Effective Strategies for M
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The vast majority (77%) of Chinese corporates surveyed expect one-third of all Chinese trade (circa USD 2trn) to be conducted in RMB by 2015 (vs 10% YTD) and 30% plan to use RMB for investment-related purposes in th
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RBS has brought together several of their existing FX and payment services into the new GlobalXChange service(GXC) which offers a single account solution for all payables and receivable regardless of currency:
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Chatham Financial, an independent financial risk management advisory and technology solutions firm, today unveiled ChathamDirect for FX risk management. This cloud-based portfolio of applications gives corporations
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Barclays Stockbrokers, the UK's largest execution-only retail broker, today announces it has launched Barclays Margin FX - a new and significantly enhanced retail foreign exchange trading platform in partnership wit
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GlobalXChange (GXC) provides RBS Groups' institutional, corporate and public sector clients, with a flexible integrated solution suite for international cross-currency cash flows - whether they are payments or recei
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its technical standards on the Regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR), which set out the specific
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Antti Kyyrö, Financial Markets, Nokia Siemens Networks Treasury, in an simple and important presentation described the range of automated solutions they have adopted for local FX conversions.
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In July 2012, the RMB moved up one position to #15 most-used payments currency with a market share of 0.45% (versus 0.43% in June 2012).
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Since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Supervisory guidance for managing settlement risk in foreign exchange transactions (2000) was published, the foreign exchange market has made significant strides in
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FXSpotStream has completed the build out of its sites ahead of schedule and the service is now available globally from FXSpotStream's hosted sites in New York, London and Tokyo. FXSpotStream' s liquidity providers,
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Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA), a 50:50 joint venture between telecommunications groups Vodafone and Hutchison 3G, has selected Bloomberg’s foreign exchange trading platform (FXGO) to manage exchange rate risk.
