ICAP's EBS taking drastic steps to bring back clients. ICAP's Forex ECN unit, EBS, may be losing market share to competitors such as Thomson Reuters and FXall (which recently passed EBS to take the #2 slot in the market), but EBS management is not taking it lying down. After last week announcing that it was…
Read moreEBS Direct to provide relationship-based, disclosed liquidity. ICAP-EBS, trying to play catch-up to competitors Thomson Reuters and FXall, has announced today the introduction of a new service called EBS Direct, to launch next month. Until now, all of EBS's services have been provided as an anonymous ECN matching platform. EBS claims to already have more…
Read moreSeveral newcomers, added to larger incumbents, all vying for falling volumes. As we've written recently, a number of Forex spot ECN aggregators have popped up in the past year, including tpSPOTDEAL (backed by Integral and Tullett Prebon), FastMatch (FXCM and Credit Suisse), traFXpure (Tradition), and MoltenFX. And this comes at a time when all the major established Forex ECNs…
Read moreFXall surpasses ICAP-EBS as the #2 Forex ECN. It looks as though having Thomson Reuters as its parent company is paying dividends for FXall. The Forex ECN, which was acquired earlier this year by Thomson Reuters for $625 million, stopped reporting its monthly trading volumes after being taken private by Thomson Reuters. However recent filings…
Read moreLooks like October was slow in the FX trading world. After reporting an improved September following a very slow summer, ICAP plc's forex ECN unit EBS reversed course and reported that daily FX volumes in October averaged only $92.6 billion -- its slowest month since 2005. Volatility has come back somewhat to the FX markets…
Read moreFX volumes rising nicely, but have a long way to go. As we have seen with other FX product aggregators such as Thomson Reuters and the CME Group, volumes at Forex ECN ICAP-EBS saw a nice double-digit-percentage rise in September, but remain well below "normal" levels seen throughout last year. EBS's volumes rose by 17%…
Read moreHard to believe that all the new FX ECN entrants will be successful.
Read more... after FX trading levels peaked last fall.
Read moreFXCM and Credit Suisse base FastMatch on CS's Crossfinder.
Read moreAll leading Forex ECNs have now reported a very slow April.
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