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"This morning, central banks around the world released their latest reports on foreign exchange turnover. These numbers are for October 2011. FX trading volume declined in every part of the world exce..."
"The Survey of North American Foreign Exchange Volume is designed to measure the level of turnover in the foreign exchange market. The survey defines foreign exchange transactions as spot, forwards, sw..."
"The summer volatility helped boost trade volumes however Canada’s Foreign Exchange Committee announced shocking results for the world’s tenth largest economies FX trade volumes. Total aver..."
"London takes charge of over 30% of the worlds Foreign Exchange Trading. Strategically located between Asia, Europe and the Americas its an ideal location for global business transactions. Since the NF..."
"British Chancellor George Osborne told an audience during his trip to Asia that the UK Treasury wants to work with Hong Kong to serve as “a gateway for Asian banking and investment in EuropeR..."
"After months of controversy surrounding issues over foreign exchange transactions, BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, is continuing to work toward a settlement as part..."
"Hotspot FX posted an average daily volume (ADV) figure of $55.8 billion with a total volume of $1,226.5 billion transacted for the month of November 2011. The platform accounted f..."
"Anyone disappointed in how the Euro summit concluded, giving us a rather underwhelming result, must have taken heart in China?s fund announcement. Is the ?Red Knight? coming to global Capital Markets..."
"The CFTC has filed civil injunctions against International Commodity Advisors , ProfitStars Int?l Corp. , and Paragon FX Enterprises. According to the Commission, ICA is an unregistered Commodity Pool..."
"TradingScreen the provider of multi-broker and multi-asset class execution management systems (EMS), has announced that it has added BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch to its network of foreign exchange (F..."
"It is unbelievable, but it’s a fact ? thanks to ?Traders Union?, the first International Association of Forex Traders, the path to success in Foreign Exchange has become much easier. You do not..."
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"Intra-day volatility continues to dwarf any sense of purposeful direction in the arena of foreign exchange. News headlines related to the euro debt crisis are producing wild swings in equities a..."
"Every month CFTC publishes Futures commission merchants (FCMs) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs) financial data. Amongst other things CFTC also discloses Total Amount of..."
"Leaders from the Group of Twenty released an Action Plan for Growth and Jobs, with explicit country recommendations and somewhat new wording on foreign exchange policy. That statement opens with..."
"The dollar and other key currency pairs face substantial two-sided risk as the moment of reckoning nears on a number of critical matters involving the euro debt crisis, the U.S. business cycle, and G2..."
"In a review carried in Money & Business of best forex blogs authored by James Dempsey of The Writers Network, Currency Thoughts was selected as one of the three top foreign exchange trading blogs..."
"The Canadian dollar gained on its U.S. counterpart on news that Canadian retail sales rose more than expected in August to gain 0.5 percent for the month. The Bank of Canada is also expected to hold i..."
"Two subsidiaries of State Street Corp. were hit Wednesday with a proposed class action on behalf of several retirement funds alleging the financial services company added an undisclo..."
"FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) today announced certain key operating metrics for September 2011 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. FXCM also announced that it completed the acquisitio..."
"The Australian dollar extended its losses on concerns that the European debt crisis could worsen even after a deal to support Greece is finalized. The Australian dollar declined to 99.66 cents at 2:47..."
"Galaxy MTF, an organized multilateral trading facility (MTF) for European bonds, has received regulatory approval from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to ope..."
"As expected OptionXpress has registered as an RFED with the CFTC and will soon become open for retail forex business. XPRESSTRADE, LLC (www.xtfx.com) is capitalized at $22,841,980 an..."
"China’s economic growth in 2012 may drop below 9 percent for the first time in a decade, a senior Chinese foreign exchange official said on Tuesday, underlining the gloom in Beijing over the det..."
"Expectations of a weaker pound have investors abandoning the British currency over fears that the economic recovery will weaken in the coming months. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne added t..."
"CLS Bank, a multi currency cash settlement system saw the average number of daily foreign exchange payment instructions fall by 2 percent in July from the previous month, while the a..."
"I’m a few days late because the market has been keeping me super busy but here’s the latest FX Volume Data and Charts from the main central banks
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"New York and London ? CitiFX Pro has been named ?Best Retail Platform? by FX Week at their 2011 e-FX awards. The award recognizes industry excellence in a bank or vendor platform designed..."
"As you can see from the chart below, the world’s foreign exchange reserves (held by central banks) have undergone a veritable explosion over the last decade. While emerging markets (especially C..."
"Today’s interview is with Richard Driver, currency analyst of Caxton FX, a provider of various foreign exchange services and oft-quoted expert on currency issues. Below, Mr. Driver explains his..."
"Shipkevich Law Firm is a full service law firm focusing in foreign exchange and FX technology transactions, as well as credit and insolvency matters. Felix Shipkevich is a New York Attorney with an ex..."
"WSJ Reports: OptionsXpress Holdings Inc. (OXPS) is developing a new currency-trading offering that will give the derivatives-focused online brokerage an entry point to the $313 billion per day retail..."
"The Good Friday/Easter holidays constitute the second quietest time of the year in foreign exchange trading. Only at year-end does one find more markets observing closures. Easter 2011 fin..."
"NEW YORK, Apr 14, 2011 FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) today announced certain key operating metrics for March 2011 for its retail foreign exchange business. This time the report also includes an interesting f..."
"Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it charged Lyndon Lydell Parrilla and his company, Green Tree Capital, both of Woodland Hills, Calif...."
"Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that it charged Lyndon Lydell Parrilla and his company, Green Tree Capital, both of Woodland Hills, Calif...."
"The edition of Foreign Exchange Insights posted on this site for March 18th began, “Using many arguments, analysts like to downplay the usefulness and effectiveness of currency market interventi..."
"This week’s Bank of International Settlements (BIS) quarterly report came with some interesting revelations (most of which I’ll discuss in a later post). Below, I’d like to focus on..."
"US regulatory authorities — CFTC and NFA — proposed a new initiative today. The main idea of their proposal is to monopolize the retail Forex market..."
"MB Trading just announced that it earned 4.5 stars out of 5 possible in Barron’s brokers review. MB Trading was specifically praised in the Best for Frequent Traders and Best for International T..."
"Citi has launched CitiFX Pro, its online foreign exchange trading platform for experienced individual and small institutional traders, in the United Kingdom. Following successful launches in the US, H..."
"Yesterday, UK Chancellor George Osborne announced that his government was ready to begin rebuilding its foreign exchange reserves. Depending on when, how, (or even if) this program is implemented, it..."
"IMF would provide short-term foreign exchange swaps to central banks in developing nations as a way to handle financial shocks US Fed backs the idea, but wants to make sure the IMF sets tough standard..."
"Traiana, leading provider of post-trade solutions, announced today that it is providing real-time straight-through-processing (STP) connectivity through the Harmony network to parties wishing to link..."
"LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Currencies trading platform EBS Tuesday handled its heaviest flows since last September’s super-sized official intervention to weaken the Japanese yen, reflecting the huge g..."
"The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today fined ActivTrades Plc, a foreign exchange broker, £85,750 for failing to protect clients? assets adequately. Under the FSA?s client money rules, firms..."
"(NYSE: FXCM) today announced certain key operating metrics for February 2011 for its retail foreign exchange business. Monthly activities included: Retail customer trading volume (1) of $250 billion i..."
"According to the latest reports, the Forex industry is growing rapidly. For a better picture of the current state of the foreign exchange market I’ve..."
"This morning’s earthquake in Japan was the strongest in more than 100 years. The last time Japan experienced a quake even close to the 8.9 magnitude was in 1995 when a 7.3 quake hit the coastal..."
"If you needed any more proof that not only retail forex brokers mess with forex prices you now have another suit against a major bank for just the same. Reuters reports that Bank of New York Mellon wa..."
"FX360.com | The lack of U.S. economic data this morning has once again led to relatively quiet trading in the foreign exchange market. The lack of U.S. economic data this morning has once again led..."
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"A group of top currency-dealing banks has delayed plans to launch a new banks-only trading system, opting to wait until the regulatory environment for foreign exchange becomes clearer in the coming mo..."
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"FXall opens Mumbai office FXall, the world’s leading electronic foreign exchange platform, today announced the opening of a new office in Mumbai, India, expanding its growing presence in Asia-Pa..."
"Back in 2009 the California attorney general?s office has charged the State Street Corporation (company that owns Currenex) with fraud, accusing the company of cheating the state?s two largest pension..."
"Take a closer look at what a dealing desk is, and how ?no dealing desk? brokers stand up to dealers and market makers. GARY TILKIN PRESIDENT AND CEO, GFT Recently, there has been a lot of..."
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Global Forex BlogTidsstämpel: 2011-02-14 09:56
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"Alpari (UK) Limited (?Alpari (UK)?), a leading foreign exchange (?FX?, ?Forex?), CFD and precious metals broker, is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new, expanded contracts for difference (..."
"In 2010, the US Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) formally released a series of new regulations governing all retail foreign exchange dealers. Having given all applicable firms almost six mon..."
"Context is very important in foreign exchange trading. The December U.S. jobs report released on January 7 and today’s January labor market report both surprised markets in pretty much the..."
"The Canadian dollar gained 0.4 percent to 99.72 cents per US dollar in early morning trading in New York. An uptick in commodity prices yesterday helped push the Canadian dollar higher despite comment..."
"The Foreign Exchange Committee launched its inaugural Survey of North American Foreign Exchange Volume in October 2004 in order to provide the market with frequent information on the size and structur..."
"ICAP, the interdealer broker, has announced the addition of a new Russian Ruble Fix to trading capabilities on the EBS foreign exchange platform, which is used daily by more than 2800 spot FX, preciou..."
"CFTC SUES 14 FOREIGN CURRENCY FIRMS IN NATIONWIDE SWEEP Action represents first use of new authority under the 2008 Farm Bill and Dodd-Frank Act to regulate foreign exchange dealers. Washington, DC &#..."
"The Canadian dollar gained 0.3 percent rising to 99.55 cents per US dollar at 8:24am in New York this morning. An increase in commodity prices helped reverse the Canadian dollar’s three-day losi..."
"Dow Jones & Company is combining news and technology resources to deliver an important new information product to foreign exchange market participants. Marshalling the global editorial resources o..."
"Being a practitioner of fundamental analysis, you could say that I’m always on the lookout for hard evidence that fundamental analysis is superior to technical analysis. Thus, I was delighted to..."
"Saxo Bank sponsors cycling team, FxPro football teams, FXOpen and MIG sponsor racing events and now we have the first forex sponsor of a basketball team – Alpari US will become an official partn..."
"China revealed today that Chinese banks issued new loans in the amount of 7.95 trillion yuan ($1.2 trillion) in 2010, exceeding the government’s target of no more than 7.5 trillion yuan. At the..."
"The forecast for non-farm payrolls is 150k. The whisper number is 500k. Such a wide range of forecasts means that SOMEONE will be surprised. Expect tomorrow to be a crazy day. Here’s my scena..."
"Here are my three New Year’s Trading Resolutions for 2011, posted recently on FXstreet.com: http://www.fxstreet.com/education/trading-strategies/2011-resolutions/2010/12/29/07/ .
James Chen, CTA..."
"A spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said that China will help eurozone countries “overcome” the debt crisis saying that the eurozone will become a “major market”..."
"HYDERABAD: Police have arrested a 28-year-old fraudster who cheated people in the name of foreign exchange trade to the tune of Rs 4 crore. Addressing a press conference here, Cyberabad police commiss..."
"NEW YORK, N.Y., December 17, 2010 ? FXCM Inc. (NYSE: FXCM) today announced certain key operating metrics for October and November 2010 for its retail foreign exchange business. Monthly activities incl..."
"The problems facing the Eurozone are so far only the tip of the iceberg says foreign exchange analyst Standard Chartered Plc.
?We?re going to get a continuation of the problems that Ireland, Portugal..."
"With investors backing away from the euro, the Canadian dollar is one of the currencies seeing the most gain and has advanced to a two- month high versus the euro. The loonie rose 0.7 percent to C$1.3..."
"Over what has surely been a long weekend for Irish policymakers, the government finally caved - accepting aid from the EU and IMF. The announcement stabilized the euro and caused the currency to gap..."
"An increase in risk awareness is largely responsible for pushing the Canadian dollar to a two-week low against its US counterpart. With each report of further trouble in Europe, risk aversion becomes..."
"The Canadian dollar advanced 0.5 percent to reach parity with its US counterpart. Seven straight days of crude oil price gains helped propel the Canadian dollar back to parity as Canada is one of the..."
"In a move to limit the amount of foreign cash flowing into the country, China today announced new rules to strengthen the auditing of foreign fund raising and will also require banks to hold more fore..."
"UK’s foreign exchange delivery broker Crown Currency Exchange (what is it with failed brokers and the name Crown??) has recently collapsed leaving more than 13,000 without their funds. Total los..."
"China’s foreign exchange reserves continue to surge. As of September, the total stood at $2.64 Trillion, an all-time high. However, it’s becoming abundantly clear that China is no longer c..."
"Panda TS, one of the leading foreign exchange development houses, is releasing a new version of its advanced Forex iPhone application. The Panda iPhone application is B2B product that allows FX broker..."
"Those who read the most recent Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity know that daily forex turnover rose 20% over th..."
"Buoyed by rising oil and gold prices, the Canadian dollar rose to C$1.0238 to the U.S. dollar, or 97.68 U.S. cents by 8:15 a.m. in New York compared to Friday’s close of C$1.0256 to the U.S. dol..."
"If you needed any more proof that Chinese market is slowly but steadily opens up for foreign exchange online trading than this piece of news should serve as one: HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited (?HS..."
"Amid latest Japan FSA’ s leverage restrictions and tougher regulation Global Forex Trading, a division of U.S. foreign exchange brokerage Global Futures & Forex Ltd., will sharply expand its..."
"Discussing what Japan's move on the yen means for the dollar and how you should invest in currencies now, with David Gilmore, of Foreign Exchange Analytics, and Boris Schlossberg, of GFT."
"Retail sales in the US rose 0.4 percent after a 0.3 percent in July. This is the largest gain in five months and is easing concerns that the American economy could fall back into recession.
“It..."
"by Oz Golan, Tradency. One month after applying the new 1:50 leverage rule, Japanese FX Brokers are beginning to take action in order to maintain their current trading volumes. “TOKYO (Nikkei)&#..."
"The long wait is over! The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has just released the results from its Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, conducted i..."
"This morning the Bank of International Settlements released its Triennial FX survey which is basically the market’s benchmark for forex volume and turnover. To no one’s surprise, volume ha..."
"He made a BILLION DOLLARS trading in one year.
Hedge fund trader George Soros made $1 billion dollars in the British Pound shortly after my book on foreign exchange was published.
Co..."
"Covered in our previous articles, you’ve already read about Forex scams created by Russell Cline and Richard Matthews Jr. Today we’ll talk about exploits about another conma..."
"My monthly FXstreet.com webinar that I conducted yesterday, “My Daily Analysis: Finding High-Probability Trading Setups” was recorded and has been posted here: http://www.fxstreet.com/live..."
"Is the Bank of Japan stepping things up? In a very unusual move, BoJ Governor Shirakawa said earlier today:
“There are substantial fluctuations in the foreign exchange and stock markets mainl..."
"At the start of 2009, financial market conditions were fragile but recovering. The Foreign Exchange Committee?s primary concerns continued to be funding and liquidity. In the first quarter, the Commit..."
"I bet that nowadays the majority of the new traders comes to Forex market after seeing some on-line advertisements. Several years ago, the currency trading wasn’t s..."
"Similar figures were posted by various sources like Bloomberg. Check Francesc’s post. New York, July 26, 2010 ? The Foreign Exchange Committee today released the results of its twelfth Survey of..."
"Over the past 24 hours, there has been a lot of talk about month end fixings. Therefore I think it is worthwhile to spend a few minutes explaining the foreign exchange market’s monthly obsession..."
"It has been three years since the Bank of International Settlements’ last report on foreign exchange was released. Since then, analysts could only speculate about how the forex market has evolve..."
"Forecasting the direction of foreign exchange flows is essentially based on two types of analysis, fundamental and technical. While technical analysis is primarily focused on a stud..."
"Latest figures show that while daily forex volumes have not yet recovered to the levels traded prior to the global credit crisis, investors are once again embracing the forex trade. London continues t..."
"The dollar has risen 0.5% against the Swissy, 0.3% versus the yen, euro, and Aussie dollar, and 0.1% relative to the Canadian and New Zealand dollars. The dollar is stable against sterling and t..."
"Saying that its $2.5 trillion reserves are not a “weapon” to be politicized, Beijing moved to ease concerns that it could be shifting its reserves to hold more gold at the expense of the d..."
"The summit of G-20 leaders in Toronto over the weekend released a statement that had something for everybody.
Omitted any reference to the yuan or, more generally, foreign exchange conditions and pol..."
"BBVA chooses Progress Apama FX Aggregation accelerator Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced that..."
"Morgan Stanley Goes Live on Traiana?s Real-Time FX Margin Solution
Traiana, the market standard for post-trade processing of foreign exchange (FX), announced that Morgan Stanley is the first custome..."
"For those requiring further proof that the balance of power within the global economy has shifted to China and away from the US, today?s surge in the markets should provide ample evidence that change..."
"China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange released a statement asserting China remains a long-term investor in Europe and denying rumors of any consideration of downsizing its euro portfo..."
"Finextra reports:
Portware, the leading provider of highly integrated, multi-asset algorithmic trading solutions has become the latest forex platform provider to integrate with Traiana’s Harmon..."
"Oanda is joining a host of other forex brokers who are offering mobile trading and has just launched its free iPhone trading app. The design of the application looks great and so should be the functio..."
"I just posted a video on YouTube giving a brief overview of a high-probability trend-following strategy called Multiple Timeframe Trading. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUVQuuVLzRo ..."
"At least according to Euromoney. I wrote about their methodology, which I don’t find very accurate, once before but honestly it’s not worse than my own retail volumes survey which mostly r..."
"There are no words to describe the size of China’s foreign exchange reserves. Massive, Mind-Boggling, and Eye-Popping come to mind, but don’t do the $2.447 Trillion justice. What’s m..."
"NEW YORK; LONDON; SYDNEY, April 28 /PRNewswire/ — GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a global provider of online trading services specializing in foreign exchange (forex or FX) and contracts for diffe..."
"Online foreign exchange brokerage CMS Forex has been hit with a suit claiming that its VT Trader 2.0 software infringes a pair of patents for technology that automatically resizes images to fit into a..."
"Joining the host of large banks who are now becoming more and more interested in the institutional FX market is Paris based BNP Paribas. With more than 200,000 employees BNP is one of world’s la..."
"StreamBase Systems, a leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology, today announced a new partnership with Gain Capital, a global provider of online foreign exchange services, to offe..."
"Describing the US bond market as “important” to China, an official with China’s foreign exchange office said that China expected a greater inflow of capital this year. This suggests..."
"CMC Markets today announced the launch of Marketmaker Web, an advanced browser-based trading platform, and the Education Zone, an extensive base of trading knowledge and strategies on their redesigned..."
"Kathy Lien quoted by corporate fx.The dollar is not under threat from a rallying euro because "fundamentally, the Eurozone is in worse shape than the US," one foreign exchange hedging strate..."
"Risk aversion has the dollar grinding higher, but I’d like to focus this week’s Foreign Exchange Insights essay on the longer term prognosis.
During the first 25 years of flexible exchange..."
"Not sure if I’m dreaming or not but it would appear that the Chinese regulator has approved the first ever bank in China to launch an online foreign exchange sale and purchase business. The Bank..."
"Icap, world’s largest inter-dealer broker and a foreign exchange leader, has cut its earnings forecast on Friday saying a slower trading in key markets meant new businesses were taking longer to..."
"The Canadian hosts of the weekend meeting of G-7 central bankers and finance ministers relayed a mixed message of global economic progress, much unfinished work, reduced G-7 responsibility, but a cont..."
"It hasn’t taken other capital markets technology firms too long to realize Cognotec is a hell of a bargain. Latest news has it that First Derivatives, a Newry Ireland based global provider of so..."
"Interbank FX is now offering a series of webinars for foreign exchange traders. Professional off exchange retail foreign currency (Forex) trader Raghee Horner will hold a series of webinars each week..."
"As the deadline for public comments nears, traders everywhere must pay close attentionThe recently proposed margin changes by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could increase the mi..."
"The Foreign Exchange Committee launched its inaugural Survey of North American Foreign Exchange Volume in October 2004 in order to provide the market with frequent information on the size and structur..."
"Forex trading volume has finally recovered after the wave of deleveraging caused the market to contract back in April 2009. Earlier this week central banks from around the world released their semi-a..."
"Guest post by Currensee.
John Forman is a Forex author and expert. He is the Senior Foreign Exchange Analyst for the IFR Markets group of Thomson Reuters and frequent blog poster on Currensee.com.
The..."
"With so much to think about these days, I havn’t spent much time poring over foreign exchange reserve statistics. Apparently, this is to my detriment, as there have been a number of important de..."
"Another interesting article about forex reserves."Foreign exchange reserves rose by $3.16 billion in the week ending January 18, 2008 taking the total reserves to a record $284.98 billion. Money marke..."
"Interesting article at Vanguard, author explains how Forex market should operate. Article is based on proposal for a liberalized foreign exchange market in Nigeria and its economic benefits.Two most i..."