Examples of Second FX Transaction in a sentence
The funds used for the Second FX Transaction comprised a portion of the funds which had been converted into USD by the First FX Transaction; the sum of approximately USD 68 million was converted to EUR 50,040,473, generating a total commission of USD 1,062,000.
JBI executed the first and second tranches making up the Second FX Transaction at a rate of 1.33855.
The total commission rate (1.56%) for the Second FX Transaction was approximately 30 times higher than Julius Baer’s standard FX commission rate for transactions of this size and consequently significantly higher than a client would normally pay Julius Baer for an FX transaction.
Ms Whitestone agreed with Mr Feldman that Mr Merinson could utilise one of the four 70% retrocession payments previously approved by Mr Seiler and Mr Raitzin in relation to the Second FX Transaction.
On 24 November 2010, Ms Whitestone emailed Mr Seiler and Mr Raitzin and requested approval for a payment of USD 742,000 to Mr Merinson, being 70% of the commission generated by BJB for executing the Second FX Transaction.
He also questioned the apparent lack of an investment strategy (noting that the Second FX Transaction used a portion of the funds from the First FX Transaction).
The Second FX Transaction took place at a rate approximately 30 times higher than Julius Baer’s standard commission rate for transactions of this size, and resulted in commission in excess of USD 1 million being charged to Fair Oaks; 70% of this sum was paid to Mr Merinson, and the remaining 30% (approximately USD 320,000) was retained by Julius Baer and constituted a return of 0.47%.
Scrutiny of the payments to Julius Baer and subsequently to Mr Merinson would also have been hindered by the absence of any written agreement relating to the 70% payment to Mr Merinson and the lack of written client instructions in relation to the Second FX Transaction.
Ms Whitestone agreed with Mr Feldman in advance of the Second FX Transaction that an intra-day range of two cents in the USD/Euro exchange rate was required before any trading could take place.
Also on 23 November 2010, Ms Whitestone arranged for the JBI Trader to carry out a further set of FX transactions on Fair Oaks’ BJB Bahamas account at commission rates which exceeded Julius Baer’s standard margin rate – the Second FX Transaction.