Deutsche Bank has confirmed on Thursday it appointed a new global head of FX in July.

A new class of FX customers is set to emerge as a result of Australian government plans to link the country’s carbon credit trading scheme to the EU market for environmental compliance contracts.

A new electronic tool launched this week by a company that specializes in technology solutions for global capital markets will allow banks and other companies transacting FX on a daily basis to easily comply with key trade reporting provisions under incoming US financial regulations.

One year on from the introduction of the floor in EURCHF, the odds may be beginning to turn in the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) favour, with speculation emerging that the central bank could lift the minimum price level.

FX trading officials from a range of leading banks praised EBS on Tuesday for launching a series of changes to its electronic currencies trading platform.

A new academic study says liquidity risk helps explain the carry trade, one of the perennial mysteries of the financial market.

Changes on Tuesday to the FX trading rules governing the brokerage platform run by Icap-owned EBS will resolve long-standing trader concerns over transaction disparities evolving in the market, says company CEO Gil Mandelzis.

Speculators on the CME flipped their net USD positions into short territory for the first time since September 2011, reflecting increased confidence in the EUR.

RBS has strengthened its market position in prime brokerage services in Asia-Pacific with the hiring of a head of mandate sales.

The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System (MPERS) is suing JPMorgan for an undisclosed amount over claims the bank misled the pension fund in its FX trading activity.

The resilient performance of the Australian dollar is similar to that of the pound, before the financial crisis sparked a slide in sterling, warns UBS.

Marex Spectron has hired a new head of algorithmic FX trading to join its brokerage operations in London.

A week bookended by a holiday in London and a policy speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke was never destined to create a frenzy of activity in FX.

The eyes of the world are trained on the Federal Reserve’s meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but FX traders might be better off following the US election to determine the longer-term direction of the USD.

Credit Suisse in Singapore has added a new director and head of FX for developed markets options to its currency trading operations.

China’s attempts to internationalize the renminbi have suffered a setback amid expectations that the currency will fall in value.

Taiwan’s central bank announced on Friday it has signed a deal on a clearing system for the renminbi that could create an offshore market for the currency on the island.

The market for over-the-counter (OTC) FX futures and options transactions funnelled through a clearing house will become more efficient with the roll out of new rules designed to better insure OTC swaps transactions, says International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) CEO Robert Pickel.

Resilience in the AUD could be undermined at the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) policy meeting next week.

Average daily turnover in the global FX market totalled $4.9 trillion in April 2012, according to a new report from TheCityUK, the British financial and professional services group.

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A Singapore-based FX options trader has joined Commerzbank in the city-state.

First, Mario Draghi cancels a trip to the Federal Reserve’s summer shindig at Jackson Hole and now he pens a letter to the German electorate to convince them of the need to support the euro project.

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UBS has hired a former Morgan Stanley FX salesman in the US, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Businesses in 31 of the 158 countries that made payments into China and Hong Kong in July had at least 10% of those payments valued in RMB, as adoption of the currency becomes more common in trade usage, says financial messaging service Swift.

A group of London-based FX sales people from a prominent brokerage house recently moved to work for a close competitor.

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK that export goods and services into China are set to increase the amount of billing they conduct in RMB, according to a Deutsche Bank survey.

The maddening gold-standard proposal unwittingly unites private fixed-income investors, policy officials in Beijing and right-wing Republicans in one sense: the perceived weakness in the international monetary system.

ADS Securities (ADSS), the Abu Dhabi-based broker, has hired a former New York-based dealer to manage its relationships with FX liquidity providers.