Aug 26, 2019 11:22 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Weve already stated in our recent post also that Australia has been the predominant country for FinTech innovation. It is reported that on thesuccessfullaunch of the worlds first blockchain-based fixed income...
FxWirePro: Snippets of CAD Ahead of BoC and Hedging Outlook
Aug 26, 2019 10:06 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Canadian central bank (BoC) is scheduled for their monetary policy next week on September 4th. A resurgence of global fears from weak cyclicals and renewed trade war risk reversed most of CADs second-quarter strength...
Digital Currency Revolution Series: British Central Bank Seems Interested in Libra
Aug 26, 2019 09:22 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Central Banks
Recently, the Chinese central bank PBoC issued a statement in a response to the US labelling China as currency manipulator. The Chinese central bank defended that the CNY depreciation is largely due to change of market...
FxWirePro: Bullish/Bearish Scenarios, OTC Updates of CAD/JPY and Hedging Strategy
Aug 26, 2019 08:37 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Bearish CADJPY scenarios: See below if: 1) NAFTA withdrawal; 2) TheUS falls into recession and spills over globally; 3) BoC as aggressively as the Fed, rewidening rate spreads beyond 65bps 4) The trade tensions...
FxWirePro: A Run Through on EM Asia FX-Bloc and Trade Radar
Aug 23, 2019 14:24 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
The broader backdrop for Asian currencies remains quite a defensive one: The weakness of CNY looks unstoppable. While the Chinese central bank keeps adding the so-called counter-cyclical factor (with an intention to...
FxWirePro: Spot The Divergence Between WTI and Brent and Carry Crude Trade Basket
Aug 23, 2019 12:50 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
WTI and Brent prices has diverged recently, with WTI extending losses of -1.45% from last 3 days (currently trading at $55.30 level), while Brent surged 2.01% so far in this week. WTIs slumps came after reports show US...
Digital Currency/Blockchain/Tokenization Series: Intuitions of Ethereum’s Hard Fork in Mid-October
Aug 23, 2019 10:58 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views
Ethereum has been one of the major currency among the crypto-universe. Amid the lingering apprehensions of Ethereums underlying technological mechanism, Ethereum 2.0. has got a paradigm shift in its technology but there...
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