No market has defied attempts to reconstruct it quite as deftly as foreign exchange (FX). The US$6.6 trillion a day market provides a handsome living for a great many people, despite a succession of embarrassing scandals and the publication by central banks of a global Code of Conduct designed to prevent them.
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The FX peer-to-peer platform that intermediaries like too
Peer-to-peer platforms are one of the many promises of the blockchain age. More than one has emerged in the giant foreign exchange (FX) markets, as entrepreneurs look to wean institutional and corporate users of the FX markets off their habit of paying too much to banks by netting buy-side trades before going to market.
The strange lack of technological disruption in FX Summary
Despite their importance, size and liquidity the global FX markets have remained largely immune to the digital technology revolution. The reasons for this include their global scale, amorphous and fragmented structure and lack of an over-arching regulatory framework, but the principal cause of the lack of innovation is the domination of the FX markets by a small coterie of large global banks.
The strange lack of technological disruption in FX
Foreign exchange (FX) is routinely described as the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. And the most recent triennial survey of FX by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reckoned daily turnover hit US$6.6 trillion in April 2019, up from $5.1 trillion in 2016.
Why is Foreign Exchange so far behind in technology and data? (25th May 2021)
[MAY 2021] A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH BANKS, ASSET MANAGERS, TECHNOLOGISTS, REGULATORS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE EXPERTS Tuesday May 25 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Despite their importance, size and liquidity the global FX markets have remained largely immune to the digital technology revolution. The reasons for this include their global scale, amorphous and fragmentedContinue reading “Why is Foreign Exchange so far behind in technology and data? (25th May 2021)”
The strange lack of technological disruption in Foreign Exchange (12th November 2020)
[NOV 2020] A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH FINTECHS PLANING TO DISRUPT THE GLOBAL FX MARKETS WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA Thursday 12 November 2020, 2.00-3.00 pm UK time Despite their importance, size and liquidity the global FX markets have remained largely immune to the digital technology revolution. The reasons for this include their globalContinue reading “The strange lack of technological disruption in Foreign Exchange (12th November 2020)”