CLS Group, which provides risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange market, today announced its intent to launch a broader portfolio of products and services focusing on three business lines – settlement, processing, and data. These new products form part of a strategic shift for CLS, and build on its unique position…
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NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) has announced that its NEX Optimisation unit, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, has launched the FX industry’s first fully automated Settlement Netting Service to streamline the bilateral settlement netting process for market participants. The Settlement Netting Service will automate settlement netting of over-the-counter foreign…
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Multicurrency cash settlement system operator CLS has a unique overarching view of the Forex market, and has put out an interesting review of US President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office (a milestone which passed quietly this weekend) and the effect the new administration has had on the currency markets. The report covers the…
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FX settlement services provider CLS Group has announced the signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chinese think tank National Institution for Financial Development (NIFD), expanding its presence in the country. The MOU defines close co-operation between the two institutions on research and broadening awareness relating to FX, payments and settlement to support the healthy development…
Read moreFX settlement services provider CLS Group has announced that it has renewed and extended its technology partnership with International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) for ten more years. CLS and IBM have been partners since the inception of the settlement service in 2002 and have worked together over the last 14 years to continuously reduce settlement risk…
Read moreIn her first interview since becoming head of FX settlement system CLS's Asia office in 2013, Rachael Hoey described talks with Chinese authorities as "constructive" and "positive" and said that the business CLS does in the region had grown significantly in that time. However Hoey told Reuters that actually integrating China's yuan with global settlement…
Read moreIn her first interview since becoming head of FX settlement system CLS's Asia office in 2013, Rachael Hoey described talks with Chinese authorities as "constructive" and "positive" and said that the business CLS does in the region had grown significantly in that time. However Hoey told Reuters that actually integrating China's yuan with global settlement…
Read moreCLS Group (CLS), a provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global Forex market, today announces that Samsung Securities Co., Ltd. (KRX:016360) has become the first non-bank financial institution (NBFI) to join the CLS system via third party access in South Korea. Samsung Securities is now settling Forex transactions in CLS via its…
Read moreAfter surging to record volumes in September, things cooled off a little in October for CLS, the world's largest FX settlement service - and therefore a good proxy for overall activity in the world's currency markets. The average daily input value submitted to CLS in October was $5.29 trillion, down 10.9% from a record $5.94…
Read moreAverage daily volumes in the global FX market hit a record high in September, data from FX settlement system CLS showed on Tuesday. The value of all transactions through the CLS system, which is used almost universally by the banking industry to process or settle trades, rose to $5.94 trillion a day last month, around…
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