Instantia selects ION FX for trade execution and risk management
The FX solution from ION was chosen for its end-to-end processing functionality of FX cash and derivative products.
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LMAX Group acquires FX HedgePool
The move follows LMAX’s acquisition of Cürex last year, increasing the business’ proposition for asset managers and other buy-side participants.
Successful traders combine data-driven analysis with traditional trading acumen
The TRADE sits down with Ramin Salmen, senior trader at DWS Group, to unpack how buy-side FX trading desks are continuing to evolve as technology ramps up and what makes for successful traders on increasingly data-driven desks.
The desk of the future: ‘AI conductors’ vs the traditional trader?
An oxford-style debate on the make-up of the future trader rounded out the TradeTech FX conference in style, wherein a captive audience were forced to question if the future truly is digital.
The new generation is seeing FX options through a different lens
When it comes to FX options alternative liquidity is being perceived as increasingly natural, agreed expert panellists at the TradeTech FX conference in Amsterdam.
‘Focus on picking good trades to do, rather than just trades to do’
When it comes to the question of algos selection, “more is not necessarily better,” asserted one expert panellist at the TradeTech FX conference.
Untangling credit and liquidity in FX
Prime brokerage and peer-to-peer liquidity were just some of the solutions explored by TradeTech FX panellists looking to access diversified liquidity sources in light of the reduction in warehousing by banks.
Before you board the automation train, make sure the brakes are working
“One of the big things which I always say to everybody is that an AI model will not go to jail, the CEO will go to jail,” said one panellist.
State Street launches new FX trading tool
Named BestXecutor, the new tool offers FX Connect clients actionable pre-trade analytics to optimise request-for-stream and algo execution.
Key updates to the FX global code to be revealed in October
Market experts advised attendees at The TradeTech FX conference that there is a real opportunity for all industry players to have agenda-setting power when it comes to the global code.