Retail FX broker Alpari Limited has earlier today published its operating metrics for March 2016, with the trading volumes staying virtually unchanged from February 2016 levels. A slight month-on-month change can be seen as a good result, given the steep drop in volumes that many FX companies reported for March 2016. Alpari's trading turnover amounted to…
Read moreKCG Holdings, Inc. Class A (NYSE:KCG) has earlier today published its operating metrics for March 2016, with the month showing continued decline in market making volumes for the company. In Market Making, KCG averaged $26.0 billion dollar volume traded, 5.1 billion shares traded, and 3.7 million trades per day in U.S. Equities. The result is…
Read moreThe 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 March 2016. In tune with what the FX industry has displayed thus far, OTC FX and binary options trading volumes showed a well-pronounced decline last month. As…
Read moreThomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published the volumes metrics for March 2016, with the results in tune with what the bulk of the industry has displayed thus far – meaning that spot FX trading volumes staged a drop. Spot FX volumes averaged $104 billion per day in March 2016, down 6.3% from the result of…
Read moreRetail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has announced key customer trading metrics for March 2016 for both its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. Not surprisingly, retail volumes in March were down at FXCM (by 6%), in line with what we have seen at most other leading brokers. However institutional volumes popped more than 50%…
Read moreMarch was a robust month for derivatives trading at the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) – this is suggested by the Market Report the Exchange has just published. SET said the derivatives trading volumes averaged 261,629 contracts per day in March 2016, up 36.36% from the reading of 191,873 contracts a day registered in February…
Read moreOnline trading services provider Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has just published its key operating metrics for March 2016, which saw retail and institutional trading volumes decline, continuing a trend already exhibited in February 2016. The drop is barely surprising given that most of the FX trading services providers have thus far posted month-on-month decreases…
Read moreMulti-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank has just published its key operating metrics for March 2016, with Forex volumes showing a slight drop in monthly terms, whereas client deposits marked a rise. Saxo Bank's monthly trading volumes for March 2016 amounted to $254 billion, down 1.9% from the result of $259 billion registered in…
Read moreAlthough trading activity was subdued across many venues in March 2016, the volumes metrics just published by Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) show a rise in overall turnover and in RMB futures volumes, in particular. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 22,400,159 contracts in March 2016, up 69% from the result of 13,258,237 contracts…
Read moreRetail Forex broker Exness, staying true to its transparency commitment, has just published its key operating metrics for March 2016. In contrast with the month-on-month drop in trading volumes the majority of online trading companies have reported thus far, Exness managed to see a nice increase in FX turnover in March 2016. The company reported…
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