The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has just published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for April 2016. And although the drop in FX volumes lost pace, the decrease in binary options volumes remained substantial. As usual, we first take a look at…
Read moreCLS Group (CLS), a market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has earlier today published its operating metrics for April 2016. The average daily input volume submitted to CLS, combining the settlement and aggregation services, was 1,073,203 last month, marking a rise of 3.6% from 1,035,678 in March 2016. In…
Read moreRetail FX broker Alpari Limited has earlier today reported its operating metrics for April 2016, with the month bringing a slight rise in trading volumes in both monthly and annual terms. The company reported monthly turnover of $91.8 billion in April 2016, up 4.2% from March 2016 when the monthly trading volumes amounted to $88.1 billion.…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has earlier today posted its volumes metrics for April 2016, with yuan futures trading volumes staging a steep decline in monthly terms. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 19,239,430 contracts in April 2016, down 14% from the reading of 22,400,159 contracts for March 2016. The annual comparison was also…
Read moreThe Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has published its key operating metrics for April 2016, with derivatives trading volumes staging a steep drop from March 2016 levels and rising markedly from a year earlier. SET said the derivatives trading volumes averaged 185,463 contracts a day in April 2016, down 29% from the reading of 261,629 contracts…
Read moreApril was a solid month for multi-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank, as exhibited by their key monthly operating metrics reported earlier today. The company saw trading volumes grow in both monthly and annual terms, whereas client deposits kept rising, continuing a trend witnessed in March 2016. Saxo Bank's monthly trading volumes hit $260…
Read moreOnline trading services provider Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has just published its key operating metrics for April 2016, with the broker no longer reporting global Forex volumes following the transfer of OTC FX accounts offered by the FX companies of TradeStation Group, Inc. to OANDA Corporation and OANDA Australia Pty Ltd in March. Monex's FX volumes…
Read moreRetail FX broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has just posted its key operating metrics for April 2016, with institutional trading volumes down from March 2016, when they saw a steep increase, whereas the monthly reading for retail volumes was barely changed month on month but the average daily volume was higher than in the preceding month.…
Read moreThomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published the volumes metrics for April 2016, with spot FX volumes continuing to slide after registering a 6.3% month-on-month drop in March 2016. Spot FX volumes averaged $97 billion a day in April 2016, down 6.7% from the result of $104 billion reported in March 2016. The annual comparison was…
Read moreMarkets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) has just published its electronic markets metrics for April 2016, with trading activity on EBS slowing down further last month, following an already subdued March 2016. Average daily volumes at EBS amounted to $82.3 billion in April 2016, down 2%…
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