New Service Will Connect Banks in China with London’s FX Market
London, UK – 18 December, 2017. The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has formally announced the formation of R5-SHCH Connect, a partnership between R5, the London FinTech leading the digital transformation of Emerging Markets Foreign Exchange trading, and the Shanghai […]
by Paul Clarke
A senior HSBC FX salesman, who has spent the past 24 years working for large investment banks in the City, has signed up to a fintech start-up pushing for the electronification of FX in emerging markets.
Chris De Sibert, who was a managing director and head of foreign exchange […]
Solomon Teague from Euromoney talks with Jon Vollemaere about the growth of clearing NDF trades, and how this is one of the drivers behind R5 building R5C3 (Central Credit and Clearing), which brings together spot and NDF trades on the same platform.
A few of Jon’s comments –
“(R5C3 also supports […]
Paul Golden from Euromoney talks with Jon Vollemaere (R5), Michael Go (Thomson Reuters), Harpal Sandhu (Integral), Geoff Ward (NEX), Dongyal Lim (CMC Markets) and Emmanuel Pelle (BSO) about how Singapore is responding to the threat posed by the growth of Hong Kong and Shanghai – all competiting to be Asia’s largest FX trading centre.
Some […]
Jon spoke at ASIFMA’s 7th China Capital Markets Conference, held recently in Hong Kong. The panel’s title was “China FX & Local Rates: Trends and Opportunities”
The panel was moderated by John Ball (GFMA), who looked at how to develop deeper, more liquid hedging instruments, onshore and offshore hedging strategies, and methods to improve electronic execution […]
Solomon Teague from Euromoney talks with Jon Vollemaere (R5), David Merchner and Curtis Pfeiffer (Pragma Securities), and William Black (Credit Suisse) about the potential yields in the NDF market and the launch of algo-trading in EM – all good for market liquidity.
Some of Jon’s comments –
“Anyone with dropping G10 volume is looking at ways to […]
In Emerging Markets Australia is seeing increased business in RMB and INR
Adam Gazzoli, R5’s business development manager, describes the AUD/RMB cross as the “next big thing” in the Australian FX market, despite data from Peter Lee Associates’ annual FX survey showing that AUD/USD accounts for 89% of FX activity amongst the country’s highest volume customers.
AUD/INR […]
Volatility may come with the territory for financial technology companies, but the seismic events of 2016 have shaken even seasoned observers. From Brexit to Trump, and with ongoing concerns around security, it has been a year of great upheaval in many markets.
R5 CEO Jon Vollemaere believes we can expect more of the same in 2017. […]
Profit & Loss, by Galen Stops
It was no surprise when the latest Bank for International Settlements (BIS) triennial survey showed that the average daily turnover of RMB has grown from $120 billion in 2013 to $202 billion as of April 2016, an 81.8% increase.
This also means that the RMB has doubled its market share as […]
