Hotspot FX, the eFX institutional platform of Bats, has just reported its volumes metrics for February 2016, with the month continuing a positive trend in terms of trading activity witnessed in January. The institutional Forex platform registered a rise in trading volumes in both annual and monthly terms. In fact, the result of $32.6 billion…
Read moreNovember 2015 has just started and this means that it is time to review the operating metrics of Forex platforms for October. Hotspot, one of the leaders in institutional Forex, has already posted the data for last month's trading volumes, with the results showing rather subdued activity. With average daily volumes (ADV) of $23.94 billion,…
Read moreHotspot registered average daily volumes of $26.08 billion in September 2015, a result that was 7.8% lower than the $28.3 billion in ADV registered in August 2015.
Read moreHowever April was a tale of two halves at Hotspot, with April 1-15 volumes down to $25.1B and April 16-30 back up to $$31.7B.
Read moreAverage daily volumes at newly-acquired institutional ECN Hotspot FX totaled $31.5 billion compared to $26.4 billion in February, whilst total trading volume was up from $528.5 billion to $694.9 billion
Read moreIt looks like it'll be a September to remember in institutional FX trading. Possibly in retail too. Yesterday we learned that ICAP's EBS unit will report its first above-$100 billion ADV month since mid-2013, despite reporting otherwise lackluster financial results for the half-year to September 30. So it should come as no surprise that its…
Read moreWill Hotspot FX soon have a new owner? Hotspot FX reported that volumes in its Forex ECN system fell in November to average $21.6 billion daily, down 5% from October's $22.7 billion -- and down 22% from last-year November's $27.9 billion. What's been interesting most of our readers though, it seems, is the future of…
Read moreForex ECNs each report fairly steady March volumes.
Read moreKnight Capital's Hotspot FX Aug volumes down 19%.
Read moreContinues trend of increasing FX volumes seen at ICAP and FXCM.
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