Search results for

It seems a little game is being played out between EBS – which I should call Icap FX spot – and Reuters.

A fallen hero; a dog’s dinner; up the Swiss; and the fascination of Murdoch.

The Forex Poll Awards Dinner

The housing bubble deflation pushing toward a Fed rate decrease, and the tight labour conditions still threatening inflation and a Fed increase. Which will win the “race”?

Already worth more than an estimated $2 trillion per day, the global foreign exchange (FX) market is the most transparent and liquid of the world’s financial markets, and will become more so over the coming years, with some analysts projecting continued rapid growth. “This year is set to be when the FX market daily trading volume will break the symbolic mark of $3 trillion,” comments a report published in January by Celent.

Add your own comments to, and read the views of: Lars Hakanson, head of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives for Europe and Asia, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking; Zar Amrolia, global head of Foreign Exchange at Deutsche Bank; Ivan Ritossa, global head of FX and head of Asian trading, Barclays Capital; Fabian Shey, global head of FX distribution, UBS Investment Bank; and Andrew Brown global head of FX, HSBC. Expert FX comment by people in the know.

Add your own comments to, and read the views of: Mark Robson, chief executive FXMarketSpace; Chip Lowry, senior managing director, Global Link; Drew Niv, chief executive officer, Forex Capital Markets; Lars Seier Christensen, chief executive, Saxo Bank; Derek Sammann, managing director, FX Products, Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Jack Jeffery, chief executive ICAP Electronic Broking (EBS); David Ogg, head of Lava FX and Robin Poynder, head of treasury for Focus Group Accounts and Ed Nelson, global head of business operations, treasury; and Mark Warms, general manager - Europe, FXAll. Expert FX comment by people in the know.

Welcome to the new look FiX. Subscribers will get to see all the latest buzz about the market, people moves and FX-specific job vacancies, plus of course my take on the issues that are affecting the industry. Readers will also get full access to Euromoney’s FX poll. The 2007 version has just been published, accompanied by the longest feature I’ve ever written about how market participants see the industry developing. We got so many responses that we are going to publish them all over the next few weeks as part of the Weekly FiX, giving readers an opportunity to learn how the top dogs in the market got to their position and how they think they will stay there.

Over 8,000 are getting their FiX.

Complete poll results

Chris Smith has resigned from Credit Suisse where he was a director covering hedge fund accounts and is headed off for 3-months gardening leave. At the end of it, provided he can tear himself away from his hedge rows, he's off to Citigroup to work on its UK investor desk, where he will look after real money managers.