Amercanex’s Steve Janjic Talks Cannabis, Coffee Poised to Soar?

This week has seen a number of developments across the financial field, including the influx of commodities such as gold and coffee, as well as the emergent field of cannabis as a tradable entity.

Weekly Interviews

Amercanex’s Steve Janjic Outlines the Emergent Cannabis Industry

Steve Janjic, Founder CEO of Amercanex and Chapdelaine FX New Director of Sales, checked in with Forex Magnates for his exclusive perspective about the genesis of Amercanex and the parallels between FX and Cannabis industries. Read More Here

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Despite the widespread use of mobile-based payments for fiat currencies, the introduction of Apple Pay has raised expectations of increased user adoption. Read More Here

Key Executive Moves

Deutsche Bank Appoints Adam Vos as Head of FX for North America

Deutsche Bank AG has reshuffled its Fixed Income and Currencies (FIC) executive team in New York, naming Adam Vos as the bank’s newest Head of FX for North America. Read More Here

European Spot FX Head Mitesh Parikh Parts Ways with Goldman Sachs

Mitesh Parikh, Goldman Sach’s European Head of Spot FX, is parting ways with the banking group, ending a 12-year stint with Goldman to take up employment at a hedge firm. Read More Here

BTIG Expands Futures and Commodities Desk, Hires Two New Traders

BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking and related brokerage services, announced today it is expanding its Futures and Commodities desk with the hires of Eric Silverman and Jordan Lichtenstein. Read More Here

In Case You Missed It

Coffee: What’s Next?

Coffee can be a volatile market and like many other trading instruments, can rotate between periods of choppiness, trending and simply volatile two-sided action. Read More Here

The Portfolio Benefits of Investing in Gold

Gold maintains a role as a Risk Management Risk Management One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, One of the most common terms utilized by brokers, risk management refers to the practice of identifying potential risks in advance. Most commonly, this also involves the analysis of risk and the undertaking of precautionary steps to both mitigate and prevent for such risk.Such efforts are essential for brokers and venues in the finance industry, given the potential for fallout in the face of unforeseen events or crises. Given a more tightly regulated environment across nearly every asset class, Read this Term vehicle that offers excellent portfolio diversification benefits and provides tail-risk protection. Read More Here