We are delighted to announce that we are taking our first steps into formal education and are exploring a relationship with Greenwich Business School (GBS) in London.

GBS is located in the prestigious grounds of the Old Royal Navy College, and due to its prime location can boast excellent links to institutions in both the City and Docklands financial hubs in London. They also have a host of sister schools across the world, including mainland Europe, Asia and Africa. Our aim is to collaborate with them as often as possible, so watch this space for exciting future developments.

As part of a research collaboration, we will be assisting them with a high profile Phd project that they have recently launched, entitled, “Impact of High Frequency Trading on Market Liquidity Risk and Flash Crashes”. The study touches upon a hot topic within financial markets: High Frequency Trading strategies, and will focus on developing a cutting edge exploration of the relationship between volatility and liquidity.

Prospective students can find further details here. The Closing date is June 4th 2013.

Yesterday was a special day at FXstreet.com. All of the staff at our Barcelona headoffice took a break from their usual tasks to take part in a first-time experience.

We all met at 09:00 am and started the day by watching a video about how the company IDEO comes up with new ideas and projects. Then we were explained a technique to develop new ideas or solve issues, called the “Mind Map”. After that, the day itself took off! We were divided in 4 teams made of members of all departments (content, IT, design, marketing and administration) with one same  assignment: to develop a project that could be applied to FXstreet.com as a company and/or as a website. No more limitations were given to our imagination, besides the fact it should be a realistic project. Each group brainstormed and started to develop the paper ideas by listing the practical aspects, preparing mock-ups and building a presentation for the rest of the team.

Around 5h30 pm, we all gathered again and each group presented its project to the rest of the company. Finally, a vote took place among the groups and the members of the management team. The winners received an enormous plate of Donuts (which were of course shared with the whole staff)!

I won’t reveal the ideas here, because we intend to put them into place and some will be made public when implemented.

This “day off” could take place because the members of our external team covered the market and took care of the website content during the full day, so we take this opportunity to thank them all!