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eFX volumes Single Dealer vs Multi Dealer Platforms

Research by Greenwich Associates (released in March 2010) states that around the world, multi-bank electronic trading platforms captured about 40% of overall FX trading volume in 2008-2009 and single-bank platforms captured another 15%. However, the two most authoritative sources of actual empirical data on FX activity, namely the Bank of England ...

12 May 2010 Finance 2.0

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Trading Platforms need to perform in all market conditions

WallStreet & Technology touches on an interesting topic relating to last weeks near 1,000 point fall in the Dow in late US trading. Data released by Gomez Inc (see chart at end of article), shows many on-line trading platforms struggled to cope with the resulting surge in investor activity, with some platforms showing a 10 fold increase in the...

12 May 2010 Finance 2.0

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Top Global FX banks losing market share to regional players

EuroMoney has just released the results of the 2010 FX Survey (sorry it’s subscription based). 2010 FX Share Top 10 ranking (2009) 1. Deutsche Bank (1) 2. UBS (2) 3. Barclays Capital (3) 4. Citi (5) 5. RBS (4) 6. JPMorgan (6) 7. HSBC (7) 8. Credit Suisse (9) 9. Goldman Sachs (8) 10. Morgan Stanley (11) The top 10 has almost remained the same, wit...

06 May 2010 Finance 2.0

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Try not to choke your customers trading GUI

An interesting comment in today’s FX Week, touches on the real-world challenges banks face when designing a new single bank platform. Banks want to deliver a really great trading application to clients. One that combines the very best the bank has to offer in terms of timely pre-trade decision support tools such as research, streaming video, analy...

27 April 2010 Finance 2.0

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Why banks are Internalising FX flows

What’s so great about internalising FX flows? In a recent article called separating the men from the boys in global FX I touched on internalisation of FX flow. I’ve had a lot of feedback on this, and I think it’s worth looking in more detail at why this is so important to banks that are building an eFX business. By internalising flows, banks see

13 April 2010 Finance 2.0

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Separating the men from the boys in global FX

It’s interesting to see recent blog comment regarding Morgan Stanley’s new Matrix platform, and what else is needed (in terms of full range of products) to enable them become a top five global FX house. In my opinion, it’s naïve to assume that a shiny new User Experience (UX) and a more complete product set is what separates the men from the boys ...

09 March 2010 Finance 2.0

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