Hedge funds that bet the yen would materially weaken following last weekend’s Japanese election were left disappointed after prime minister Shigeru Ishiba announced he would stay on, despite his ...

Vendors that must register as multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) may end up passing increased regulatory costs on to ...

Standard Chartered has launched a spot crypto trading business, making it the first bank to go live with a spot crypto market ...

Chinese corporates shunned hedging during tariff upheaval High hedging costs and increasingly stable spot rate meant exporters opted not to add FX hedges as RMB rose ...

For years, bitcoin was seen as a speculative outlier: volatile, loosely regulated, and detached from the macroeconomic fundamentals that drive traditional asset classes. Today, we’re seeing something ...

When the US Senate passed the Genius Act on June 17, establishing regulatory standards around the guardrails and oversight of stablecoins, it marked a significant step towards institutional adoption ...

The turmoil from US president Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff announcements rattled global foreign exchange, interest rate and equities markets, where it triggered significant volatility and ...

The so-called Trump trade of going long the US dollar via foreign exchange options has seemingly come to a sudden stop following the euro’s massive rally last week, forcing traders to U-turn on their ...

While foreign exchange spot is one of the most highly electronified products in the market, options have long lagged behind because of their complexity and relative lack of liquidity. But not only are ...

The London gold market is facing a mounting structural crisis. Bullion banks that lend precious metals to producers and each other moved over 200 tonnes of gold to New York in January in response to ...

FX Markets is delighted to announce the winners of the Asia Awards 2025. The eighth edition of the FX Markets Asia Awards recognises and showcases the best banks, trading platforms and technology ...

Since the start of Donald Trump’s second US presidency, many of his tariff-related social media posts have tended to appear late New York time. This piles extra pressure on the Asia trading session ...