Forex ECN FastMatch is reporting that volumes in its system increased by 23% MoM from December, to average $17.0 billion ADV for the month of January. January clearly started off on the right foot for FastMatch and other leading institutional FX platforms, as volatility in key currency pairs remained high throughout most of the month.…
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With the first month of the year now in the books, it is time to take a look at Forex trading volumes across the various retail and institutional FX trading platforms for January. And, based on early returns, it looks like it was a good start to 2017 in the currency trading world. First out…
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GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that 2017 started off strong with record ECN volumes of $12.1 billion ADV in January. The $12.1 billion topped last November's $10.3 billion figure at GTX. Overall, including GTX's swap dealer business which provides “voice” agency execution services, total…
Read moreRetail Forex broker Alpari Limited has just reported its volume metrics for the first month of the new year, with turnover in January 2016 failing to match the results seen in December 2015 and January 2015. The company said its monthly trading turnover amounted to $80.04 billion in January 2016. The reading is 13% lower than…
Read moreMoscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), saw the traditional decline in monthly trading volumes in January, primarily due to the winter holidays season in Russia. The overall picture was reflected in the detailed Forex volumes metrics for January 2016, which MOEX published today. The data pointed to decreases in monthly trading volumes across…
Read moreThe year started on a high note for one of the largest online trading service providers - Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), as the company has just posted its volumes metrics for January 2016, showing a monthly rise in both retail FX and institutional trading volumes. Retail volumes staged a rise of 12.3% from December…
Read moreSingapore Exchange Limited (SGX:S68) today reported its operating metrics for January 2016, with Forex volumes staging steep increases in both monthly and annual terms, in the face of a month-on-month decline in yuan futures turnover. In January 2016, the FX futures volume at SGX was 522,933 contracts, up 23% from December 2015, when the volume…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just published its operating metrics for January 2016, with total trading volumes showing a marked rise in both monthly and annual terms. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 28,001,613 contracts in January 2016, up 20.7% from December 2015 levels and up 34.5% from January 2015 levels. As usual, we…
Read moreMarkets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) has just published its electronic markets volumes for the first month of the new year, with trading volumes on FX trading platform EBS staging a sharp increase in monthly terms. Average daily volumes at EBS amounted to $103.8 billion in…
Read moreMulti-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank has just published its key operating metrics for January 2016, with Forex volumes staging a double-digit rise from December 2015 levels. Saxo Bank reported monthly Forex volumes of $258 billion for January 2016, a reading which is 14.2% stronger than the result of $226 billion registered in December 2015,…
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