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December
Fusion Asset Management has rolled out the SEB Prime Solutions-Fusion LIBOR+ 800 Currency UCITS fund, that was launched by the Nordic Bank in September 2010, Citywire reports.
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UBS and Hedge Fund Research (HFR) have launched the UBS –ETFs plc - HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index SF, an Exchange-Traded Fund
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Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has launched a set of services in offshore Chinese Yuan
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched electronic FX options trading capabilities for its clients
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Banks in the currency-trading business are planning to launch a new banks-only dealing system
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Lee Overlay hires to new London office
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Standard Chartered hires Head of Financial Institutions Sales for South and South East Asia
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Jason Keg has been appointed head of trading and sales for FX and Asian emerging markets at Rabobank
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Russian forex brokers are setting up a self-regulating organisation
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RBC Capital Markets hires FX Managing Director
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Morgan Stanley has teamed up with the eastern city of Hangzhou to launch yuan-denominated funds
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CME Group has appointed a managing director, global head of FX products
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November
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Hong Kong-based Income Partners Asset Management is planning to launch a yuan bond fund
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Banks urge FX swaps exemption from new rules
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BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research has appointed a head of its European G10 foreign exchange strategy
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Merrill Lynch is allowing hedge funds to deposit yuan and yuan-denominated securities in prime broker accounts
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KTOs Capital Partners is launching a currency fund
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A New York-based senior currency strategist at BNP Paribas has left the bank
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China is planning to start trading of the Russian ruble against the yuan
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Charlie Chan, a former currency trader at Credit Suisse, is planning to launch a hedge fund
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CME Group has appointed a head its global currency trading unit in London
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RBC Dexia launches passive FX hedging service designed to protect its clients’ investments against currency translation risk.
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Nomura builds Latin American FX Sales and Trading business
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CME to offer a set of FX Realized Volatility futures based
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Norway’s central bank will acquire FX worth $135 million a day in November for the country’s oil fund
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October
Shinhan Bank has partnered JP Morgan to expand its Chinese currency related business
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Daiwa Capital Markets has hired a head of fixed-income, currencies and commodities (FICC) sales for Asia ex-Japan
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London Capital Group has launched an online contracts-for-difference (CFDs) trading platform
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Overlay Asset Management, a foreign exchange manager, is rolling out a currency basket
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BGC Partners has carried out its first fully electronic Dollar Interest Rate Option trade
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GAIN Capital Holdings will acquire a retail forex business
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Northern Trust has launched a solution that supports multi-currency share classes and foreign exchange transactions
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Triana, a provider of post-trade processing of foreign exchange, futures and equities, has set up an office in Tokyo
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Tradency and Japanese broker, FXTrade Financial have formed an alliance
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BNP Paribas Securities Services has introduced forwards and swaps to its automated foreign exchange product
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Citigroup has appointed tow foreign-exchange strategists from SocGen
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Barclays Capital has appointed a new head of North American FX research
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Mizuho Securities is planning to launch foreign exchange margin trades from January
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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has appointed a director of its new currencies division
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Strathclyde Pension Fund is reviewing the manager of its currency overlay mandate
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Amundi has appointed James Kwok as head of its currency management unit
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The Global Board of Trade will start trading on October 18 and offer trades in gold, silver and five currency pair derivatives
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September
Icap has rolled out a tradable currency pair for the renminbi against the dollar
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Nomura rolls out a currency Newcits fund offering directional exposure to Chinese economic growth
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Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed Robert Sinche as global head of foreign-exchange strategy
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Thailand is planning to launch currency futures to help exporters curb exchange-rate risk
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Brevan Howard has unveiled an emerging markets FX Newcits fund
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Clearstream will offer settlement in Chinese renminbi held outside mainland China
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Alpari US has rolled out new FX options
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Santander has won a contract to manage FX trading for Chile’s state oil and gas company
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The Clearing Corporation of India (CCIL) is looking to build a centralised reporting platform for forex dealers
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Morgan Stanley has appointed David Hong as head of FX emerging markets trading for Asia
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Euroclear Bank announced today that clients will be able to settle transactions and deposit Eurobonds and Hong Kong domestic securities denominated in the Chinese Yuan Renminbi
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Credit Suisse has appointed Koji Fukaya as chief currency strategist in Japan
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Morgan Stanley Investment Management has appointed Sophia Drossos as a senior investor on the global macro and asset allocation team
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J.P.Morgan Chase has hired a head of its European currency research division
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FxPro is planning to list on the Alternative Investment Market in October
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FORTS has launched trading of the first Russian five-year futures on the USD/RUB exchange rate
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August
Mark Barnes and Christiane Mandell have left Royal Bank of Scotland’s foreign exchange business
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TD Ameritrade Holding has launched futures and foreign-exchange trading capabilities
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BNY Mellon has appointed a new Head of Trading in Korea
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Swedbank has received a local currency licence in China
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HSBC has hired foreign exchange executives in Asia and Europe
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Alpha Financial Technologies (AFT) has introduced a long-short index designed to capture the economic benefit of price trends within the currency futures markets
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HSBC has named its new head of emerging markets foreign exchange trading for Asia-Pacific
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Prudential Bache, the commodities and financial derivatives unit of Prudential Financial has named a new FX sales head
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Standard Chartered hires Global Head of Fixed Income Research
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BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking has appointed a co-head of FX Options
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June
Credit Suisse has added six more people to its global FX sales team in Asia Pacific
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Nomura Securities will start exchange-based foreign exchange margin trading this summer to draw more currency investors
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Chi-X Global moves to streamline international trading into Brazil
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May
ETF Securities has seen assets in its Currency ETC platform, launched last November, increase by 530% this year
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One of the panels at the Global Investor/isf FX Masterclass discussed pricing and best execution
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A new BNY Mellon study reveals an increasing interest on the part of institutional investors in currency hedging strategies focused on minimizing the impact of currency fluctuations on cross-border investments
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RBC Capital Markets has boosted its global FX team in the Asia-Pacific region
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April
The sixth Global Investor / isf FX Master Class is due to take place at the Park Lane Hotel in London on 27th May 2010
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The Hungarian financial market regulator has fined Deutsche Bank $458,000 for FX transactions
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Citigroup’s Global Transaction Services and Foreign Exchange & Local Markets Group are launching the AutoFX Passive Hedge service
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March
The FX market is growing at record levels according to figures released by CME Group, the largest regulated foreign exchange market in the world.
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Read Global Investor/isf's exclusive Foreign Exchange survey results. Who is the best in the world?
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RBC Capital Markets has hired Raymond Schumertl, as a director of Global Macro FX Sales
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February
The head of the Arab Monetary Fund has urged the UAE to rejoin the Gulf monetary union
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Eurex Repo and Clearstream announced today that they launched a new currency segment.
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Fund managers are considering whether to hedge their currency exposure to emerging market assets over the medium and long term
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January
Brazil's regulator has taken measures to boost currency risk supervision
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Icap and CLS Group have rolled out an FX post-trade service