Market Insights

How much are you overpaying for your FX forward tran...

How much are you overpaying for your FX forward transactions? When thinking about FX markets, people tend to focus on spot transactions. These may be the most easily understood segment, but are they ...

NOV 23, 2023

The Banker on Settling FX in a T+1 World

Drawing on data from New Change FX, Eva Szalay writes in The Banker about the impacts of the move by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to require T+1 day instead of T+2 days for settlement of ...

AUG 29, 2023

NCFX Currency Options Cut: Mitigate uncertainty and ...

With the NCFX Currency Options Cut, NCFX publishes live official benchmark price updates that are used to determine the underlying market ‘cut’ rate for currency option expiries. We created the produc...

DEC 06, 2022

The Full FX: Year-End Basis Pressure Double 2021 Say...

The Full FX features NewChange analysis in an article about year-end funding pressures in the foreign exchange market. Read the article here ...

OCT 15, 2022

E-Forex: Why you need Independent Data to Differenti...

When measuring in FX, an Independent Benchmark makes all the difference. The emergence of independent mid-rates has made price opacity optional. To paraphrase Gibson, a fair and efficient FX market is...

SEP 14, 2021

Accounting for transaction size and market condition...

The evolution of Transaction Cost Analysis away from a ‘box ticking’ exercise towards making TCA relevant to execution continues apace. New Change FX (NCFX) is at the forefront of delivering API-drive...

FEB 12, 2021

Brokerage Services Using NCFX Data – Why is it diffe...

Differentiated Brokerage Services Using NCFX Data New Change FX (NCFX) is a data vendor, producing the world’s only live, streaming Foreign Exchange benchmarks. NCFX is regulated by the FCA as a Bench...

DEC 16, 2020

Why NCFX Data is good for you

Without wishing to provoke unpleasant memories of being forced to eat your greens, we would like to explain why consuming high-quality, independent data is good for you, and even better for your portf...

DEC 08, 2020

Data shines a light on FX hedging costs and their co...

Executive Summary A new study of share class hedge returns conducted by Lumint Corporation and New Change FX (NCFX) reveals significant underperformance of hedged share classes. FX hedging could be co...

OCT 19, 2020

E-Forex: Using the Unit Cost of Volatility to measu...

Xavier Porterfield, Head of Research at New Change FX (NCFX), introduces NCFX's new approach that allows fair comparison of liquidity providers in all market conditions. One of the challenges market p...

JUL 01, 2020

The Unit Cost of Volatility

One of the challenges market participants face when analysing their FX transaction costs is how to compare results across different currency pairs and volatility regimes. A given spread for 1 million ...

JUN 05, 2020

The Unit Cost of Volatility at the 4pm Fix

The 4pm Fix conducted in London is a seemingly immovable feature of the Foreign Exchange (FX) markets. The Fix is still widely used by corporations and asset managers, despite the controversy over the...

MAY 20, 2020

Enterprise Data Management (EDM) for FX Tick Data

In the current Financial Market landscape, data can be a major determinant of whether businesses succeed or fail. The transformative potential of big data is widely recognised. In this endeavour, comp...

MAY 02, 2020

Why Market Impact Matters

Independent Benchmark Mid-Rates for Foreign Exchange The use of benchmarks is widely accepted in both everyday life and in the world of professional investments. Mortgage interest rates are based on ...

MAR 19, 2020

Everything is Market Impact

An often overlooked problem in transaction cost analysis is endogeneity. The term arises from econometric analysis. It describes how the results of a regression analysis can be biased when both the de...

NOV 27, 2018

Fast and Fragmented Trading. The end of prime market...

It used to be that FX price discovery happened over the phone at what must seem, to a self-aware computer, an excruciatingly slow pace. These days it happens much faster, as the latest report from the...

SEP 20, 2018

How well do you understand the need for independent ...

When looking at FX costs it is absolutely crucial to understand that without independent, aggregated data that reflects pricing sources without actually being a pricing source, it is impossible to mea...

AUG 19, 2018

Lowering Your Foreign Exchange (FX) Costs through ef...

An introduction to New Change FX New Change FX (NCFX) was founded in 2012 with the goal of providing clients with an independent means of accurately assessing transaction costs in Foreign Exchange. T...

JUN 25, 2018

Paying too much for FX?

New Change FX conduct a good number of research pieces for asset owners and asset consultants every year. We conduct Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) on data submitted by asset managers in order to ass...

MAY 29, 2018

The Cost of Poor Foreign Exchange Execution

Considerable steps are being made in cost transparency. It is however apparent that where foreign exchange (FX) is concerned, there is still a need to explain the drag on returns that comes from poor ...

MAR 16, 2018

Shining a light on the true costs of trading foreign exchange.

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