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Vendors urged to curb toxic FX flows

Price aggregators in the foreign exchange market that take active steps to weed out liquidity providers (LPs) engaging in toxic behaviour may see more business coming their way, according to a senior banker.

“Those vendors that do [adopt] a sort of self-regulatory structure around the way they provision liquidity, I think might find themselves doing more business,” said Chris Chattaway, co-head of global G10 spot and Americas emerging markets FX delta one trading at Goldman Sachs.

Chattaway was speaking on a panel at the FX Markets USA conference in New York on October 20.

FX venues and liquidity aggregators are under pressure to clamp down on so-called toxic flow from counterparties with a trading style that moves the market against LPs, making it harder…
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