January 2012 FOREWORD
Manfred Wiebogen Foreword
Currency Wars
Richard Willsher Leader
OTC FX Clearing
20. Currency War – or simply country debts out of control?
Manfred Wiebogen argues that as weakened banks in the Eurozone continue to put pressure on some countries whilst others are seeking advantage through competitive currency policies, FX is bound to stay a key focus for those in control of monetary policy.
LEADER
Joe Morgan Social Media
Facilitating FX workflows
Frances Maguire Electronic FX options Redefining standards
22. 2012 - OTC FX Clearing moves to centre stage
Richard Willsher reports on how exchanges, clearing houses and service providers are setting their strategies and gearing up their technology for the new opportunities that may emerge from mandatory regulation focusing on OTC FX derivatives.
Stina Ekberg e-Forex Interview e-FX Trading and Distribution
Howard Tolman FX Mythbusters Cloud Computing
FEATURES
30. Social Media – helping to facilitate FX workflows across all channels
Joe Morgan investigates how institutional FX firms and traders are starting to explore the new possibilities that social media communication tools can bring.
42. Social Forex Awards 2011
Eddie McDaid Fast Track
Middleware technology Heather McLean
Launching an FX brokerage Avoiding the pitfalls
e-Forex helps launch the Social Forex Awards open to the top 25 FX Banks which will focus on those institutions
A ACI ADS Securities B Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg Tradebook BMO Capital Markets BNP Paribas
Boston Technologies British Telecom
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Nicholas Pratt Retail FX
The quest for speed
Lior Nabat In the Chair
Mirror trading
Capital Market Access Partners page 145 CFN Services Citi
page 125 page 5
Cloud Trading Technologies CME Group Credit Suisse cTrader
Currenex D
Derwent Capital Markets Deutsche Bank Digitec
Divisa Capital Dow Jones Dukascopy
E Adil Soyfoo TraderTalk Nathan Halfon Accessing FX liquidity 2 | january 2012 e-FOREX
easy-forex Equinix
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page 36 page 7
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page 37 Outside Back Cover page 130
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GCI Financial Gold-i
Grey Spark Partners H
Hantec Markets Hibernia Atlantic Hotspot FX
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Interxion IOSCO IPC
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PFSoft Philip Futures Progress Software
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page 33 O page 123 page 27
OBOption.com One Market Data One Zero
Option Computers
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Nomura Nordea
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eSignal eToro
Eurobase F FiberMedia
Financial Software Systems FinFx Trading FlexTrade FXall
FX Architects FX Bridge
FX Central Clearing FXCM FXDD
FX Fifty Five
page 121 page 87 page 171
Inside Back Cover page 15
L Lab49 Leverate LetstalkFX
page 155 M page 47
MAP S. Platis
page 163 M-DAQ page 77
MetaQuotes Software
page 169 MIG Bank page 184
Morgan Stanley Murex
My-Channels
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that have made significant achievements in developing social media tools and strategies allowing them to have better dialogue and create an even closer relationship with their clients.
44. Transparency, flexibility and liquidity - redefining standards in electronic FX options
As the FX industry enters into a new era of e-trading for FX options, Frances Maguire examines the major role that technology is playing in the provision of new and additional services whilst redefining standards in the way these instruments are traded.
56. Modelling the FX trading environment with intelligent analytics
Nicholas Pratt reports on how it is becoming increasingly apparent in the FX world that a more intelligent approach to the use of analytics can lead to the development of equally more intelligent trading strategies.
68. Lab 49 FX platform survey
We summarise some of the findings from the recent Lab 49 survey of single dealer FX platforms.
REGIONAL e-FX PERSPECTIVE
72. South East Asia As South East Asia experiences increasing
JP Morgan page 51 K Kalita-Finance page 16 S Savvis
SEB Merchant Bank SGX
SmartTrade Technologies
Social-Markets.net Squared Financial Sumerian SunGard
SuperDerivatives Sybase
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360 Treasury Systems Thomson Reuters TMS Brokers Tradency
TradeStation TradingScreen TradeSpotFX TradeTech TraderTools Traiana
V Varengold
VT Systems
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page 111 page 13 page 23 page 105 page 34 page 85 page 66 page 134 page 54 page 59
page 76 R REGIS-TR Royal Bank of Scotland
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