Risk Live: Common standards for trade reporting should be mandatory, argues senior industry representative. Financial authorities should force markets to adopt a single format for transaction reporting, a senior figure at the International Swaps and Derivatives...

HSBC is looking into ways it can use machine-learning applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to unearth patterns in payments and invoice data supporting clients’ commercial activities to enhance its corporate servicing model for foreign exchange transactions....

The lack of a unified approach to circuit breakers in the FX market is said to be reinforcing loyalty to OTC trading and stifling enthusiasm for exchange-based activity, despite the protections such mechanisms can offer. Read...

While it’s early in the roll-out of many blockchain use cases, there are immediate opportunities for the use of distributed ledger technology in the derivatives markets. Near the top of this list is the management and settlement of collateral, a multi-billion dollar...

Arjun Jayaram, CEO of Baton Systems, talks to Profit & Loss about how distributed ledger technology (DLT) is already helping the FX market, why the hype cycle around this technology is coming to an end and who he expects to win the “blockchain wars”. Read more...