JLN FX: March 08, 2012: Currency Trading Volumes Continue To ...

New trading data shows that currency activity continues to shrink.? China intends to offer yuan-denominated loans to the BRIC nations.? Newedge and Lightspeed announce the appointment of new people; central banks post reserve levels; and new trading platforms are made available for traders.

Lead Stories

Currency Trading Volumes Continue To Struggle
Dow Jones
Global currency trading volumes are still struggling with data from the two main interbank trading systems showing flows shrank a minimum of 5% on the year in February.
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China to make yuan loans to Bric nations: FT
Market Watch
China will extend yuan-denominated loans to other nations that make up the Bric group of nations, according to a report in the Financial Times on Thursday, which cited people familiar with the plan.
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Company News

Newedge Announces Three Senior Appointments to Prime Clearing Services (PCS) Team
Newedge, a global leader in multi-asset brokerage and clearing, announced today three senior appointments in the Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) division of its Prime Clearing Services team.
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Lightspeed Announces Promotion of Michael Sedek to Chief Retail Officer, Names Collin Carrico as Chief Institutional Officer
Lightspeed Financial, Inc., a leading provider of ultra low latency direct market access (DMA) trading technology, risk management solutions, and brokerage services for professional retail traders and institutions, today announced the promotion of Michael Sedek to Chief Retail Officer and named Collin Carrico as Chief Institutional Officer, effective immediately.
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FXCM To Present At Citi Financial Services Conference; Webcast At 2:00 PM ET
Nasdaq
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Central Banks

Italy Central Bank Liabilities To Euro Zone Rise Further In Feb
FOX Business
The Bank of Italy's liabilities to euro-zone partner institutions rose in January by around EUR13 billion, reflecting increasing reliance on the central banks of surplus nations.
http://jlne.ws/wzj65g

Lira Double Whammy Hits Banks as Basci Returns to Loan Cuts: Turkey Credit
Bloomberg
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey cut lending through its one-week repurchase auctions every day this week, the longest period of reductions since Feb. 16, as the lira tumbled the most this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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Ukraine Is Two Weeks Away From A Meltdown As Forex Reserves Disappear
Business Insider
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Singapore February Foreign Exchange Reserves $247.0 Billion Vs 245.5 Billion January
Dow Jones
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Gold and Forex reserves in Kazakhstan grow 4.4%
International Business Times
Gross foreign exchange and Gold reserves, including the gross reserves of the National Bank and National Fund, in Kazakhstan grew by 4.4% to US$82.7-B in February, the National Bank Chairman Grigorii Marchenko said at Tuesday press conference in Almaty.
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Global Economy

Analysis: A stagnant Brazil falls victim to its own success
Reuters via Yahoo! News
President Dilma Rousseff took office last year convinced that Brazil could keep growing at almost China-like rates without making big changes to the economy. That confidence now looks a lot like complacency.
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Technology

Global Currency Manager Omaha Foreign Exchange Implements Panopticon Data Visualizations
Panopticon Software the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Omaha Foreign Exchange (OFX) is implementing Panopticon?s CEP-enabled Treemaps, Heatmaps and other data visualizations in its proprietary trading systems.
http://jlne.ws/wqFJR2

BNP Paribas Boosts Its Electronic Trading Offering for Clients With Launch of CORTEX FX
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
BNP Paribas announces the launch of its advanced, electronic foreign exchange trading platform -- "CORTEX FX" -- which provides an innovative multi-product solution for corporate and financial institutional clients to manage their foreign exchange requirements.
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Fundamental Interactions Inc Announces the International Expansion of the Neutron Trading Appliance
PRWeb
Fundamental Interactions Inc plans to take clients of the Neutron Trading Appliance live across three continents by the end of 2012. As part of the global expansion, routing and market data integration will be added for new trading venues in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Additionally a complete FX trading module will be integrated into the product.
http://jlne.ws/xGJ7Mh

Markets and Price Risk

Will UK and EZ Central Bank Meetings Even Matter?
GFT Forex via Yahoo! Finance
The Bank of England and the European Central Bank are scheduled to make monetary policy announcements on Thursday but unlike previous months, these meetings should have a far more limited impact on currencies....
http://jlne.ws/Aafsr3

Norway's Krone Strengthens as Rate-Cut Speculation Diminishes: Oslo Mover
Bloomberg
Norway's krone jumped, snapping two days of losses, as rising stocks and speculation the central bank has finished cutting interest rates fueled gains in the currency of the world's seventh-largest oil exporter.
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Source: http://www.jlnfx.com/2012/03/march-08-2012-currency-trading-volumes.html

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