Electronic trading
Market-maker of the year: Jane Street
Asia Risk Awards 2019
Esma probes blurry line between FX vendors and venues
Forex liquidity aggregators resemble trading platforms – but are not regulated as such, critics charge
How the top 50 dealers tackle forex last look
Uneven disclosure practices are making life difficult for agency algos and ECN trading
Six big forex market-makers call for end to last look
Citadel Securities, Jump and Virtu among those repudiating controversial practice
Rival FXPBs scoop up former Citi clients
BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank among those taking on clients axed by the US bank, plus others worried they’ll be next
Banks and prop shops expect more trading tie-ups
Risk Live: White-labelling a new battleground, with Barclays, BNP, Citadel and Jump touting price streams
UBS unleashes Orca for rates clients
Machine learning algo trawls liquidity pools to slash US Treasury trading costs
Keeping the robots honest
Human overseers are in short supply in an arena where losses can be crippling in minutes
Citi culls HFTs from FXPB client list
HC Technologies, Jump Trading and Virtu Financial among those told to find a new prime broker
CFTC official warns on Sef rule overhaul
Isda AGM: Targeted changes better than a total rewrite, says Rostin Behnam
Use-cases for Mifid II data prove elusive
Banks running market share analysis from trade reports, but data quality hampering other projects
Relationship banking isn’t dead, just different
Some asset managers are pumping banks for liquidity leads. But what can they offer in return?
Dealers suffer in euro rates desert
Analysis shows collapse in swap and bond bid/offer spreads, as traders say business is “unsustainable”
DE Shaw rebukes Giancarlo’s big idea on Sefs
Hedge fund endorses electronic trading, as CFTC pushes for a return to old phone-based business
BrokerTec outage serves as ‘systemic risk’ wake-up call
January 11 shutdown of dominant US Treasury market platform worries participants
Arnott, Harvey: machine learning dangerous when data thin
Experts warn ML should be used “for its correct purpose”
HSBC and the risk-advisory robot
Bank has amassed 10-petabyte pool of client data to spot hedging, financing and payments needs
A threat to the Ion throne?
Banks need connections to e-trading venues; they don’t want the other services that come with them
A buy-side swaps order book – with a difference
First client joins Trad-X Clob as dealers get nervy about large-scale RFQs
Currencies flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2019: Credit innovation opens up market-making to previously out-of-reach customers
Risk Markets Technology Awards 2019: Vendors enter the pick-and-mix era
Modular tech and micro-services – plus new risk and regulatory needs – are creating openings for insurgents and incumbents
OTC trading platform of the year: Trad-X
Risk Awards 2019: From a D2C Clob to CCP-specific pricing, Trad-X isn’t scared to rock the boat
Equities flow market-maker of the year: Citadel Securities
Risk Awards 2019: Risk management overhaul helps market-maker navigate February 5 volatility
Currency derivatives house of year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2019: French bank hits options windfall in Turkey during currency crash