Ahead of this year’s TradeTechFX, a special report by Worldwide Business Research (WBR) and Euronext FX found that 84%…
The Coalition Greenwich report, Corporate FX Trading—The Value of Relationships and Execution Quality compares practices between corporates and asset managers, discussing how the shift to electronic trading and digital innovation is transforming corporate FX trading. “In an age of digital innovation companies who are not giving FX the attention it deserves could be leaving real […]
Internalisation as a concept has shifted in perception among the FX community, moving from a poorly understood offering to becoming a sought after value added service,
Institutional traders shared their predictions for the coming year in one of the largest cross-asset surveys of its kind, the 2024 JP Morgan e-Trading Edit. Key sentiments which will be of particular interest to FX algo providers and users alike include the expectation that volatile markets will be the greatest daily trading challenge, followed closely by liquidity availability and workflow efficiency.
Following three years of gathering insights from an annual Global Client Fixed Income Market Structure Survey, Barclays conducted a similar exercise with its FX clients for the first time this year. The results provide a…
One of the biggest issues with FX algorithms since their inception is how to view accurate traded volume data, particularly considering the lack of order book depth data that has been available to date, says Asif Razaq, Global Head of FX Automated Client Execution at BNP Paribas. He adds that in a bid to solve […]
The Bank for International Settlements recently released a working paper on the foreign exchange market, part of which explores the expansion of algorithmic trading. In particular, the paper charts the rise in algo use on EBS to 2022, by which time …
The uniquely fragmented nature of FX liquidity has arguably been a key driver behind the growth in adoption of FX algos, particularly among buyside firms. Leading FX providers are also aware of the impact good liquidity management can have on execution outcomes…
Despite the growing role of algos in the FX industry, recent research by Coalition Greenwich found that only 12% of corporate treasury departments are currently using them.
FX algo adoption among the buyside has never been higher, with recent findings from a Finance Hive Global Pulse survey indicating that some 92% of firms now say they use algos for at least some of their trades.
