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The London Metal Exchange (LME) trading ring has been the noisy home of metals traders buying and selling for over a hundred years. It’s the world’s oldest and largest metals market and is home to the last open outcry trading floor. Recently however, the age-old trading ring, though has been

In recent years, in a bid to capture liquidity away from the traditional OTC/bilateral markets, exchanges around the world have been heavily promoting a wide range of new and improved exchange-traded derivative (ETD) contracts for FX. Whilst some of these contracts are becoming widely traded, the jury is still out

It’s a fact that has been emphasized time and time again: 2020 has been a year unlike any other, upending existing processes and injecting a measure of uncertainty as we plan for the future. The capital markets and institutional fintech space have been no exception. The record volumes and volatility

As the dust continues to settle post the 2020 presidential election, financial institutions are left asking themselves: where are the business risks in the medium to long term? Will firms with global operations find themselves navigating through an increasingly sanctioned environment as relations between US and China continue to sour?

In the midst of these unsettled times, asset management firms are reexamining their access to both markets and clients as they continue to work remotely and grapple with the impending fallout of a future recession. Firms nowadays are being forced to react quickly to fast-moving events and hard-hitting business environments.