FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Execute FX trades with confidence 

• Fast, reliable execution via our new, easy-to-use pricing and trading application.
• Trade spot, forward, swaps and time options in over 50 major, minor and emerging market currencies.
• Pricing displays and rate calculators that can be configured and tailored to your needs.
• Competitive execution speed.
• Automatic calculation of broken date FX trades.
• Streaming rates and rate alerts give you a view of exchange rate volatility to help determine the optimum time to trade.
• Straight-through processing (STP).

CHARTING

• View historical market data over the past 10 years.
• Easy to set up your own chart of foreign exchange analysis.

TRADE BLOTTER

• View the status of all your trades – even those dealt outside of Arena with Lloyds Bank.
• Online trade confirmation for Arena trades.
• All individual asset classes (foreign exchange, interest rate, inflation or commodity) trades can be filtered to be viewed on one single page.
• Functionality to export to Excel.

PRICE ALERTS

• Stay ahead of the market with pricing alerts. You decide the currencies, bid and offer.
• Unrestricted number of currency combinations.
• Set up multiple price alerts.
• Appears instantly as a pop-up, allowing clear visibility.

DEALING PANEL

Set up as many dealing panels as necessary in over 50 currencies.

MONEY MARKETS

Invest with choice and flexibility on the money markets 

• Whether you want to settle via single or multiple accounts, with straight-through processing Arena makes settling trades easy.
• Opportunity to place deposits in over 19 currencies – from major to emerging markets.
• No limitations on deposits – one day or as along as a year, with the option of selecting any non-standard periods.
• Auto-priced up to GBP100 million.
• Flexibility to amend money market deposit rollovers.
• Attach unique references to trades and confirmations.
• Instant online trade confirmation for Arena trades.
• Real-time rates at a glance.

Our range of titles include: 

International Financial Outlook
Monthly forecast for exchange rates and major global interest rates.

Economic Data Analysis
Financial and economic developments and major global economies' data release dates.

Economic Insight
Analysis of topical, economic issues.

Daily Economic Outlook
The day's economic events and their likely impact on financial markets.

World Economic Quarterly
Analysis of selected developed and emerging economies, viewed from both an interest rate and FX perspective.

UK Quarterly Economic Bulletin
An analysis of the current issues facing the UK economy and the outlook for the year ahead.

Daily FX Strategy
A daily preview and analysis of activity in the global foreign exchange markets.

Rates Strategy Daily
A daily preview and analysis of activity in global interest rate markets.

Along with our regularly scheduled research, we also produce bespoke reports to meet your needs.

Components can be aligned to your requirements to help support your decision making.

Arena also provides you with risk strategy papers, market commentaries and research across all asset classes to help inform your hedging decisions. We can help you create bespoke risk management strategies with solutions available across:

• Foreign Exchange.
• Interest Rates.
• Inflation.
• Commodities.

Read more about our Risk Management expertise and solutions.