The Committee for Professionalism strongly recommends intra-day oral deal checks to help reduce the number and size of differences, particularly when dealing through voice-brokers, for deals involving foreign counterparties, in faster moving markets such as FX and when dealing in other instruments which have very short settlement periods.
This checking should:
You quote the following rates to a customer spot GBP/CHF 2.2005-10
3M GBP/CHF swap 120/115
At what rate do you sell GBP to a customer 3-month outright?
A customer asks for a price in 3-month CHF/JPY. You quote 56/54. The customer deals at 54. What have you done?
When an employee executes a personal trade in advance of a client’s or institution’s order to benefit from the anticipated movement in the market price following the execution of a large trade, it is called:
Confirmations should be sent out by both counterparties through an efficient and secure means of communication, preferably electronic:
The primary issue for insuring prudent liquidity management in accord with the guidance provided by the Basel Committee (Basel II I Basel III) is: