FxWirePro: Glimpse at Emerging Asian central banks and EMFX vols

Oct 01, 2018 14:32 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

Recently, central banks in Indonesia and the Philippines delivered a 25bps and 50bps rate hike respectively, suggesting that the policy makers are keen to narrow the rates spread against the Fed as capital outflow is an...

Can IBM and Stellar together transform trade finance? XLM/USD bulls relish rallies despite hanging man and shooting star occurrence

Oct 01, 2018 13:31 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Digital Currency Technicals

Usually, the trade finance business, has been stereotypically low risk but high collateral in nature, but was not excused from the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis). Regardless of LCs, Collections or open account methods...

FxWirePro: Under-pricing and unbiased hedging weigh on bullion markets despite hawkish Fed's stance

Oct 01, 2018 12:31 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

Bullish neutral risk reversals are observed in golds OTC hedging market, while positively skewed IVs of XAUUSD have been stretched out on either side. This is interpreted as the hedgers bid for both OTM calls and OTM put...

FxWirePro: A tour on G10 FX apprehensions and positioning ahead of major risk events in Q4

Oct 01, 2018 10:52 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

The major burning and worrisome issues across the globe are: Trade tariffs tit for tat sentiments, Central banks rigid stances of both dovish and hawkish approaches, and the US political noise did little to revive soft...

FxWirePro: How to tackle bearish Swedish Krona on central banks of Scandis? Uphold NOK/SEK in cash and square-off EUR/SEK seagull

Oct 01, 2018 10:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

This write-up emphasizes on the execution and functioning of the two advocated Scandi trades long EURSEK establishing a bearish seagull options strategy and long NOKSEK outright has been weak in the last...

FxWirePro: AUD/USD Projections, OTC Outlook and Hedging Perspectives after RBA

Oct 01, 2018 09:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views

As has been the pattern this year, AUDUSD has taken another shift lower in the trading range. Accordingly, some sensible adjustments are made to the previous forecast track for the currency-cross, more so, to...

Trend of Stable-coins - London Block Exchange now welcomes pound-pegged crypto-pound

Oct 01, 2018 05:44 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views

The predominant objective behind cryptocurrency was to generate fidelity and anonymous method of mobilizing funds efficiently, ever since then its been presaged as digital gold. Well, to foster the anonymity, a Japanese...