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  • Institutional investors will have greater access and liquidity in the Gulf's second largest stock market after Lyxor, FTSE Indices and Coast Investment & Development Company launched the region's first exchange traded fund.
  • Lyxor Asset Management and Coast Investment & Development Company have announced the launch of a new ETF focusing on Kuwait, the first ever ETF to focus on the Gulf region.
  • RevenueShares is readying a line of sector exchange-traded funds that will launch over the next few weeks.
  • At the start of every week, I wonder what news will materialise for me to write about. Amazingly, something nearly always comes up, even at times like this when many market participants have gone on holiday.
  • I received a very strange press release this week from a company called Dukascopy. It prompted me to send an email back asking if it was sure about its accuracy. Strangely, the email bounced. Undeterred I called the company.
  • Record, the UK-listed specialist currency investment manager, says in its latest quarterly update that its assets under management equivalents now total $56.2 billion. This compares with $55.7 billion at the end of March. Record now has 147 clients; at the end of March it had 141.
  • FXCM’s decision to move away from a principal-based trading model to an agency one now looks to be paying dividends. The company’s revenue for the three months to the end of June was $66.5 million, providing ebitda of $25.3 million. Over the first half, FXCM’s revenue was $128.6 million, with ebitda of $50.6 million.
  • Standard Chartered Bank has relaunched the Shariah-compliant version of its online treasury (OLT) FX trading and hedging platform under its global brand for Islamic products, Standard Chartered Saadiq. OLT integrates into Stan Chart’s Straight2Bank trading platform. The bank says it is the first to launch online services in Islamic FX utilising the Wa’ad structure; this allows Islamic companies and institutions to hedge forward FX exposures under a Shariah-compliant structure.
  • Readers will no doubt have grasped that if you want almost guaranteed coverage in the weeklyFiX, send me news with a cycling theme.
  • Sources say former Bear Stearns FX option trader Andrew Dexter has resurfaced at boutique firm LaBranche Structured Products in New York. He will apparently set up and head the firms new FX option operation.
  • Barclays Capital has confirmed one appointment and two internal promotions in its Asia-Pacific FX senior management team. As reported here in April, Adrian McGowan is joining as managing director and head of foreign exchange trading, Asia-Pacific, from Deutsche Bank. Based in Singapore, he will report to Ivan Ritossa, the firm’s global head of FX and head of global markets trading, Asia-Pacific.
  • Well-placed sources say that Steve Pearson has left Bank of Scotland Treasury – as HBoS calls its dealing operations – where he was chief currency strategist. The word is he is taking Merrill Lynch’s silver, although Merrill has declined to comment. Its reticence is odd; after all, Pearson’s appointment is not likely to prove a share price mover. Pearson also ran a model-trading programme at Bank of Scotland. It is not known whether his role at Merrill will be forecasting or model trading.