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Refinitiv pledges FX brokerage to Australian bushfire relief
The area already burned is triple the size of the land destroyed by the 2018 California fires and six times that of last year's fires in the Amazon
Best Bank Awards: CME
CME is voted Best FX clearing house at the 2019 FX Week Best Bank Awards
FX trading volumes slip in September after strong August numbers
Spot FX volumes slipped at the end of Q3 following an unusually active August
Expanding European market abuse regime to FX spot considered problematic
Lawyers and industry group say move would overlap with Global FX Code and create costly record-keeping and reporting burdens
Ramchandani files complaint against Citi in NY court
Complaint filed in US southern district court of New York claims false assertions made against him by bank
Citi reshuffles FX management
Move intends to foster greater alignment of trading across the bank’s major product lines
Argentine governor rules out holding peso at unsustainable level
Guido Sandleris reaffirms commitment to tight monetary policy to tame inflation
Trading volumes fall on most ECNs in July
FXSpotstream bucked the trend with yet another year-on-year increase
FX last look: how non-banks stack up
Research shows patchy disclosures plus differences from banks on pre-hedging and rejected orders
Swiss regulator hunts for hints in Credit Suisse FX probe
Five banks fined, two acquitted as Comco closes market-rigging probes
FX Link pulls futures-shy banks into the fray, says CME
Since its 2018 launch, CME says the product has attracted some Tier 2 banks to FX futures
FastMatch’s FX Tape available via QuantHouse’s API
The move extends the FX consolidated tape’s reach to a wider audience
Yuan shines as UK FX turnover slips
Average daily London trading was lower in October, as were the tallies in New York and Singapore
MarketFactory: fragmentation, credit innovation and Singapore matching
Mergers between FX trading venues have led fragmentation to spill into other asset classes
Best Banks Awards: EBS
EBS wins the Best Broker for Spot FX category at the 2018 FX Week Best Banks Awards
Advanced Markets adds Standard Chartered as prime broker
UK bank becomes Advanced Markets’ second prime broker after UBS
FX Cartel traders found not guilty
“We all came to the conclusion that we didn’t think the prosecution had enough evidence,” a juror tells FX Week
Gardiner: FX Cartel had ‘gentlemen’s agreement’
Matthew Gardiner, a co-operating witness for the government, says the group co-ordinated trades for profit
BNY Mellon hires Lee as FX trader
Jonathan Lee moves to the bank from Standard Chartered
Central banks adapt to faster markets, says BIS report
Fast pace of today’s markets means central banks must change approach to fulfil responsibilities
Scott joins Spark Systems as adviser
Paul Scott spent nearly a decade at Commerzbank in senior roles
Sabia joins Wells Fargo
Robert Sabia joins the spot FX desk in San Francisco
Mateus joins Societe Generale in Paris
Alexandre Mateus joins Societe Generale as G10 FX spot trader, based in Paris
FX turnover hits new record high in UK
All global currency trading centres register growth in April, compared with previous semi-annual survey