FxWirePro: Who is cheaper, MGS versus UST yield? – The rates hedging outlook
Jan 29, 2019 10:35 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views
In this write-up, we run you through the DBS banks perceptive views on rate yields outlook in one emerging market in comparison with USTs. The Central Bank of Malaysia maintained the status quo in its monetary policy,...
A Run Through on ‘Growing Ripple’s Utility’, $535 Million XRPs Sold in 2018
Jan 29, 2019 08:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views
Ripple has sold a sum of $535.56 million in XRP tokens in 2018, as per thereport. Out of which, approximately around a third of $171 million has flown in from institutional clients while over $363 million has been added in...
FxWirePro: AUDUSD drivers and OTC dense bearish setup for H1’2019 prompts ‘diagonal put spreads’
Jan 29, 2019 07:07 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Even with a little New Year rebound, AUDUSDs outlook for 2019 seems quite bearish amid mild rallies ahead of Feds and RBAs monetary policies, but we continue to foresee modest depreciation towards 0.68 by end-2019. While...
Trend of Tokenization seems to be outpacing despite bearish crypto-space
Jan 29, 2019 06:21 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
Although the last years downtrend of the cryptocurrencies may have caused blood bath for some traders in the recent past, we kept reiterating that the buzz world, tokenization mechanism is quite different that hasnt been...
FxWirePro: Deploy ‘debit call spread’ to hedge USD/RUB on CBR intervention
Jan 28, 2019 13:56 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks
As stated in our previous post, CBRs indication of hikes has cushioned ruble depreciation. Resumption of FX purchases will prove bearish for RUB, in our view. The CBR announced the resumption of FX purchases from...
Take a look on Ripple’s growing popularity from global financial services companies
Jan 28, 2019 13:11 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
We already reported in our recent post that Ripple has been steadily building an ecosystem, which happens to be a niche in theworld of interbank payments. The Ripple company recently announced its collaboration with nearly...
Indian government urges for crypto regulatory framework, IMC set to deliver finalized report
Jan 28, 2019 12:21 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views
The Indian central bank (RBI) has currently, has put a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies. Back in last April, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instructed the all financial institutions in the territory to abstain from...
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