Retail e-FX Provider : Achieving more effective Risk Management in Retail FX platform operations

First Published in e-Forex Magazine January 2010

Roger Aitken

Faced with a need for more effective risk management of their Retail FX customer positions, banks and brokerage firms in the FX space are being challenged by ballooning small ticket items, varying customer credit limits, risk mitigation issues as well strains on their back office processing capabilities. Roger Aitken talks to leading industry players to explore the key issues involved.


A Retail FX customer base is very different from the traditional corporate and institutional client base of a bank or large brokerage firm. For a start client numbers are generally far greater and the pressures of servicing these customers who produce a greater percentage of small ticket FX trades, places an extraordinary load on the bank/broker systems, staff and processes.

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