News that FastmatchFX founder Dmitri Galinov is planning a return to the FX industry dominates this week’s podcast as Colin Lambert and Galen Stops chat through the challenges and opportunities for the fledgling platform, which leads into a broader discussion around the NDF market in general.

Stops also recounts a meeting with an FX market maker who is feeling less than cheery about the prospects for the market, which feeds into two central questions this week – is now the time to be launching a platform and will volatility as it is generally accepted ever return?

On the subject of disruption, our podcasters also take a look at a novel approach to recruitment by XTX Markets, leading to Lambert throwing his own “quant” strategy into the ring.