foreign exchange

Derek Sammann, CME Group – The Importance of Electronification and Globalization

by JLN Staff | Oct 2, 2015

"The amount of structural change — driven by market regulations, the implosion of the credit markets, events in Greece, the hangover from 2008/2009 — has created an incredible amount of change that's wrenching the infrastructure from the moorings of the last four...

JLN Options: Wall Street silent as GOP eyes derivatives

by JLN Staff | Jan 30, 2013

New Restoring Customer Confidence VideoThe ninth video in our Restoring Customer Confidence series deals with securing segregated funds. Each week we will post a new idea answering the question – how do you restore customer confidence and bring traders back? Restoring...

MarketFactory CEO James Sinclair Explores Trends in Foreign Exchange Market Structure

by JLN Staff | Dec 10, 2012

James Sinclair is CEO and co-founder of MarketFactory, a financial technology company that provides feed handlers to the forex market. The company’s FX Aggregator product is a single API that connects to all sources of liquidity in the foreign exchange market,...

Harrell Smith of Portware on FX Market Structure

by JLN Staff | Nov 6, 2012

Harrell Smith is the head of product strategy for Portware, a software company specializing in trade execution systems for equities, futures, options and foreign exchange markets. He spoke with John Lothian News Editor-at-Large Doug Ashburn about several critical...

Ray McKenzie – ICE Futures U.S.

by JLN Staff | Jul 18, 2011

ICE Futures U.S. posted a monthly volume record of 850,244 contracts in its ICE U.S. Dollar Index futures in June. It also hit a daily volume record of 81,814 contracts on June 9 when the notional value of USDX contracts traded exceeded $6 billion. Jim Kharouf spoke...