The FX Global Code: The EU Shows Support
May 24, 2018
Jason Merritt, Director, Business Development and SMEs When the FX Global Code was released in London in May 2017, it offered up a common set of principles across ethics, governance, execution, information sharing, risk management and compliance, and confirmation and settlement. To quote its wording precisely here, the aim of the code was established to “promote a robust, fair, liquid, open, and appropriately transparent market, in which a diverse set of Market Participants, supported by resilient infrastructure, are able to confidently and effectively transact at competitive prices that reflect available market information and in a manner that conforms to acceptable standards of behaviour.” Or, to put this objective into more easily understood laymen’s terms, the code was designed to restore the trust and credibility back into the FX market after the scandals of 2013 and 2014. This period of scandals was so egregious that it resulted in £1.4 billion in FCA fines and fostered the launch of the FCA FX Remediation Programme.