After reporting record trading volumes throughout Q1, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that April volumes came in at $24.6 billion ADV, down 11% from March’s $27.5 billion.
However, in the big picture, April was still FXSpotStream’s third best month ever. By comparison, FXSpotStream’s previous volume record coming into 2018 was $23.9 billion ADV in September 2017. By another comparison measure, FXSpotStream averaged $19.5 billion in daily volumes during 2017. On a year-to-year basis, volumes were up 44% over last year.
| Month |
Total Volume* | Avg Daily Volume (ADV) | ADV Change MoM |
ADV Change YoY | Trading Days |
| Apr-18 | $515,696 | $24,557 | -10.9% | +43.5% | 21 |
| Mar-18 | $606,011 | $27,546 | -4.5% | +46.7% | 22 |
| Feb-18 | $576,631 | $28,832 | +9.5% | +54.1% | 20 |
| Jan-18 | $579,463 | $26,339 | +32.8% | +39.7% | 22 |
FXSpotStream is a bank owned consortium operating as a market utility, providing the infrastructure that facilitates a multibank API and GUI to route trades from clients to Liquidity Providers. FXSpotStream provides liquidity from 13 leading global banks – BofA Merrill Lynch, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BNP Paribas, Citi, Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered, State Street and UBS.