Stephane Leroy, Head of global Sales & Marketing at QuantHouse discusses how various types of trading technology are facilitating the evolution away from discretionary trading.read more...

Manfred Wiebogen looks at why the current increase of volatility in the FX market is the result of uncertain and obscure economical developments.read more...

With both buy-side and sell-side firms finding themselves facing a new set of technological issues related to high volume FX trading, Harrell Smith looks at the challenges they face in implementing effective, real- time risk management solutions.read more...

Wolfgang Koester outlines why companies who continue to ignore their company's foreign exchange exposure management processes will have to answer for them once today's currency-related profits have turned into unforeseen losses.read more...

Manfred Wiebogen looks at how the FX industry is undergoing further expansion and the importance of having friends in the markets.read more...

The recent growth of FX Prime Brokerage has been extraordinary and technology has had a central role in facilitating this. e-Forex invites John Colasanti, Head of Americas, FX Prime Brokerage sales at Citi, Ed Pla, Global Head of FX Prime Services at UBS, Marek Robertson, Head of FX Liquidity Solutions at Barclays Capital and Brian Duff, Head of Prime Brokerage, North America at RBS Greenwich Capital to discuss some of the key drivers and issues associated with this expanding industry.read more...

Manfred Wiebogen discusses the likely impact of the MiFID directive which come into operation in November 2007. read more...

Today’s banks are facing a strong and growing interest for enhanced online trading solutions from all client segments. Clients – from funds using algorithms to smaller corporate and private traders – are increasingly seeking broad, multi-asset coverage, and cross-asset trading capabilities to deliver real-time, executable prices at lightning speed.read more...

In recent years there has been expansive growth in automated FX trading. For example, whist the majority of clients at Strategy Runner, (the vendor that facilitates automated trading connecting a variety of automated trading applications to a range of brokers) are still futures based, the gap is rapidly closing in favor of FX. read more...

We live in a world of fundamental changes. Foreign currency reserves skyrocket, FX turnovers reach 3.000 bln USD per day (expressed in more detailed figures, e.g. 3 Mio transactions, each transaction worth of USD 1 Mio !), turnovers in compound structures such as certificates of the 3rd generation add enormous liquidity to the markets – business is great!read more...

Greg Hay outlines how clients can now be provided with verified trading results taken from live accounts, to reduce the confusion facing Retail FX Traders when selecting trading systems to add to their portfolio.read more...

Nicholas Pratt sets out to discover whether there is a finite level to the internet’s capacity to support the future demands of e-FX.read more...

Anthony Scholfield examines the factors that may move the FX market towards an ‘exchange model’ providing an open architecture and aggregated “one stop” liquidity, algorithmic order processing and central clearing facilities.read more...

Godfried De Vidts looks back over the last 3 years since he took up the chair of the ACI.read more...

Godfried De Vidts looks at the advantages that the FX market offers retail investors.read more...

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Godfried De Vidts looks at why e-trading volumes will continue to grow in the FX market.read more...

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Frances Maguire looks at why, just two years since the first electronic options facilities began appearing, the banks now believe the time is right for more exotic options to be executed online.read more...

Godfried De Vidts looks at the impact that the Hedge Fund industry is having on the FX market.read more...

Yaacov Heidingsfeld illustrates how advances in technology are facilitating the challenge of meeting increased demand for deal flow by enabling the development of more intelligent FX pricing and rate engine solutions.read more...

Greg Surman looks at how the demand for Price Engine solutions is evolving from "more features" towards a mix of "raw performance” and “more analysis”.read more...

Robin Poynder looks at the choices facing banks wishing to offer new e-commerce services.read more...

Andy Webb looks at the challenges facing banks who need to stream quotes across multiple FX portals.read more...

Godfried De Vidts looks at the prospect of machines taking over some of the basic trading functions.read more...

Sebastian di Paola examines how automating FX trading can assist in meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.read more...

Godfried De Vidts looks at the lessons learned from the recent Refco case.read more...

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Godfried De Vidts looks at the risks posed to the FX market by attacks such as the recent London bombings.read more...

Godfried De Vidts reviews some of the highlights from the recent ACI Congress in Stockholmread more...

Godfried De Vidts, President of the ACI, looks at why 2005 is an important year for the ACI as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.read more...

Robin Poynder looks at some of the difficult problems facing banks in looking for the most efficient methods of distributing their transactional capability in the new eCommerce environment.read more...

Godfried De Vidts, President of the ACI, looks for the reasons behind the improved market turnover highlighted in the recent BIS 2004 results.read more...

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Global Forex Trading introduces Facilitated Systemsâ„¢read more...

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The electronic challenge for ACI – The Financial Markets Associationread more...

Ron Clarke examines what progress there has been in implementing STP solutions for electronic FX trading amongst Fund Managers. read more...

If eFX trading and STP is so great, why aren’t we all doing yet? Paul Hasenfus answers that full deal automation is extremely complex and therefore only certain eFX vendors have implemented a model for the entire market.read more...

A view from The Foreign Exchange Committee on the issues facing market participants who replace confirmation messaging with trade validation from electronic front end trading systems.read more...

Adoption of electronic trading is a certainty for almost all markets says Neil Chriss, despite proponents facing a contingent of doubters in each market, including foreign exchange.read more...

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Heering Ligthart ponders whether the events of September 11 last year have acted as a catalyst for existing trends in the foreign exchange markets.read more...

Patrick de Courcy discusses the broad role that SWIFT can play in helping to define and implement the next generation of generic standards for the FX market.read more...

Heering Ligthart argues that a truly global market such as foreign exchange probably cannot be regulated, but individual market participants can and should be.read more...

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Alfred Schorno examines the institutional sector in Germany and gauges their enthusiasm for embracing the electronic trading environment.read more...

With his term as ACI President now over, Heering Ligthart sets out his views on what issues and problems cyber trading is likely to be facing over the next few yearsread more...

Demand in the retail market for online FX trading is experiencing dramatic growth. Nicholas Bang believes that banks have largely ignored the retail market leaving this niche wide open for non-bank participants.read more...

The demand for trading in multiple asset classes through a single interface is increasing rapidly. Olof Paulson examines the next step in the trading process and the challenges facing vendors.read more...

Heering Ligthart argues that regulators should focus on the quality of traders and introduce an official accreditation for wholesale market particpants as in equity and bondmarkets.read more...

Heering Ligthart examines the implications surrounding the recent FX trading scandal in New York.read more...

The implementation of FAS 133 and IAS 39 can be an onerous undertaking for a company. Robert Richardson shows us how the careful selection of a software system can ease that burden.read more...

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Jack Lemonik tells us about why the FIX Foreign Exchange Working Group was formed and how it aims to facilitate FIX implementation in the foreign exchange markets.read more...

Heering Ligthart discusses how recent FX trading scandals can be divided into fraudulent actions and illegal or unauthorised trading.read more...

e-Forex asks Stephan Repkow, co-head of Foreign Exchange Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas, about the banks' experience of online FX in the Asia/Pacific region.read more...

Teo Hiang Long outlines how FX e-commerce initiatives are impacting business relationships and partnerships in the region.read more...

Kevin Galliers examines the reasons why barriers to the development of online FX in the Asia-pacific region are falling.read more...

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Tomas Zikas describes the best way for companies to overcome the phenomenon of asset class silos by embracing the Generic trading system.read more...

Heering Ligthart examines recent currency crises around the world and assesses what role cyber trading has played in them.read more...

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The public Internet has great advantages but you get what you pay for and there are no guarantees, warranties or service level agreements. Chris Pickles discusses how these and other factors have brought Extranets to the fore in eFX.read more...

Heering Ligthart discusses the likely impact of terrorist and other attacks on electronic markets and the role the ACI could play in solving market problems resulting from these disruptions.read more...

Customers sometimes complain that FX markets lack real Liquidity. Whatever the reasons for this, Heering Ligthart believes that eTrading should increase Liquidity in the market by making it more accessible.read more...