Hedge funds shifting dollar risk into leveraged swaps poses a hidden debt threat in the global financial system, highlighting the dangers of overreliance on liquidity and leverage in the face ...

Société Générale has gone live on market infrastructure group CLS’ cross currency swaps (CCS) service. CCS trades have notable settlement risk exposure linked to the high value of the initial and ...

CLS, a financial market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, today announces that BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB and Natixis CIB, three leading global financial ...

Transactions of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives rose to the highest level last year, helped by a sharp increase in currency forwards and interest swaps, data showed Tuesday. The combined turnover ...

A measure of demand in the $9.5-trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market is signaling renewed appetite for US dollar funding as ...

A Treasury official will call for greater transparency over emergency currency “swap” loans to struggling countries by China’s central bank. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington The United ...

The Bank of Uganda has bought $1.5 billion from the market this fiscal year and used currency swaps to rebuild its foreign-exchange reserves after they were drained by an aid freeze and debt ...

LONDON (Reuters) - As dollars dry up, global finance is growing increasingly dependent on opaque currency trading to keep cash flowing. Banks and other short-term dollar borrowers are becoming ever ...

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PORT LOUIS, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Mauritius's central bank will offer spot-to-three-month forward swap transactions in dollars, euros and pounds to counter a lack of liquidity in the foreign exchange ...

Société Générale has gone live on CLS’s cross currency swaps (CCS) service. The firms say the CCS system can be used seamlessly in conjunction with the post-trade platform MarkitWire. This can allow ...