Trend of Tokenization Series: A Glimpse on ICOs, IEOs, and STOs Performance in 2019
Jul 16, 2019 06:02 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views
Of late, the segment of tokenization lures the shrewd investors with the exponential returns (yields flashes in 3 digits in percentage terms). While the regulator raises a cautionary statement that the token categories...
FxWirePro: FX Options Highlights Amid Macro Backdrop
Jul 15, 2019 13:37 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Growth concerns for both advanced countries and emerging countries have picked up again on the back of a collection of new economic data but also and perhaps more importantly due to continued high uncertainty. The latter...
FxWirePro: Ambiguous USD/TRY? Carry Highest Vol Ratio Via Simple Vanilla Structures
Jul 15, 2019 11:59 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
The lira may appear to have rallied since this Monday after the CBT Governor was fired last weekend by a presidential decree. But this is a misleading picture where a broader EM FX rally is masking the underlying...
Jul 15, 2019 11:05 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
Today, a German news magazine is moaning about the potential end of multilateralism and the risk of a currency war. However, one cannot agree with the view (which others have brought forward, too) that monetary policy as...
Jul 15, 2019 10:25 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
Amid the global slowdown, the investment banking giant, Goldman Sachs has consistently been constructive on crypto-industry, they saw Bitcoin as Broadly Heavy. Christopher Matta, a former vice president of investment...
Jul 15, 2019 06:23 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
This week derivatives exchanges LedgerX and ErisX were given the green light to offer physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts, beating VanEck and Bakkt to market. Both of them have been the renowned firms in the...
FxWirePro: ECB sets to act – 3-way straddles to hedge EUR/GBP topsy-turvy trend
Jul 11, 2019 14:41 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
The account of the last ECB Council meeting in early June, published today, confirms that the central is ready to ease the monetary policy stance further, without giving any hint how exactly a package of new measures might...
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