The latest rankings articles from FX Week

Standard Chartered swept to victory in two of the four emerging markets categories this year, walking away with the awards for best bank in Asian emerging currencies and for African and the Middle East.

TECHNOLOGY -- Reuters wins in risk management

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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Reuters this year snatched the award for best risk management software from Wall Street Systems -- last year’s winner, now in second place.

E-TRADING -- FXall maintains lead among multi-banks

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The outlook for multi-bank FX portals has taken a turn for the better this year with business and trade volumes growing across all platforms.

RESEARCH -- MMS wins again in screen-based analysis

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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MMS International’s dominance in screen-based analysis continued this year with its eighth consecutive award in the category. That is likely only to increase from next year when it is merged with fourth-placed MCM, the subsidiary of UK publishing group Informa that bought MMS in September.

BROKING -- Specialism key to broking success

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The Electronic Broking Service (EBS) maintained its lead in the spot FX broking category again this year, but voice and hybrid brokers were winners in the derivatives categories.

UBS ousts Citi from top spot

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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LONDON -- UBS is the best bank in foreign exchange, according to a poll of nearly 1,000 voters in FX Week’s annual survey of the industry.

DERIVATIVES -- UBS and Deutsche Bank share the derivatives spoils in volatile market

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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In a year of huge growth in FX derivatives -- particularly in options -- UBS and Deutsche Bank are the top providers, according to voters in the Best Banks in FX survey 2003.

RESEARCH -- Top banks dominate research and strategy

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The world’s largest banks are dominating the provision of research and strategy as a result of their trade flow data, complementary businesses and their location of economists around the world.

TECHNOLOGY -- ABN Amro’s CLS victory

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The launch of the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) service in September 2002 sparked a whole new industry as shareholder banks saw the benefits of offering CLS settlement to their clients.

TECHNOLOGY -- Cognotec stays top despite rivals’ merger

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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In what may be the fastest-moving side of the FX industry, one constant remains: Dublin-based Cognotec won the awardfor best automated dealing technology for the sixth consectuive year, beating off competition from newly-merged rivals Reuters and AVT Technologies.

Big three banks share derivatives spoils

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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LONDON – Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS shared the spoils in FX Week sister publication Risk magazine’s client rankings, published this month.

Rankings reveal diversifying inter-dealer market

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The inter-dealer market for foreign exchange is shrinking, as an increasing number of mid-tier players retreat from market-making to become clients of the top firms. The banks that remain are working hard to consolidate their positions as liquidity providers to the market – but as FX Week sister publication Risk 's 2004 inter-dealer derivatives rankings reveal, there are some surprising success stories outside Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS, the traditional leaders in the field.

UBS holds onto pole position

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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LONDON – UBS is the top-rated bank in FX, according to the 1400 voters in FX Week's 10th annual survey of the market.

Cognotec top tech provider

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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Dublin-based vendor Cognotec won FX Week 's best dealing technology award for the seventh successive year. Reuters – which now owns AVT Technologies – took second spot.

Top banks dominate research rankings

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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The big banks continue to dominate FX research and strategy, with JP Morgan leading the field.

EBS shines as volume pressure bites

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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With the huge increase in turnover in the FX market over the past three years, EBS has held onto its title as best broker in spot FX by focusing on providing fast electronic tools to maintain an orderly market, said its spokesperson in London.

SuperD is best for options pricing

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:22 GMT

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SuperDerivatives this year won the award for best options pricing/risk management software, seeing off stiff competition from second-placed GFI Group's Fenics FX, as well as products from Reuters, Murex and SunGard.