The exchange noted that INR/USD Futures have reached 4.3 million with 27% quarter-over-quarter increase and SGX USD/CNH Futures gained 9% to 2.7 million. SGX stated: SGX set monthly volume records for its USD/SGD, INR/USD and USD/INR (USD) futures in March, reflecting strong demand among global institutional investors to risk-manage Asian currencies. The exchange is Asia’s…
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The ADV FX reached $21.17 billion in March with a 3.3% MoM decrease, compared to the $21.89 billion in the previous month. From a Year-on-year perspective, Euronext FX volumes fell 40.2% YoY in March 2021 from the $814.01 billion in March 2020. ADV Euronext FX dropped 42.8%YoY in March 2021 from $37 billion during the…
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The announcement said: Total combined volume at Cboe Global Markets' four options exchanges set a new monthly volume record with 266 million contracts traded. Total options volume also set a new quarterly volume record with 773 million contracts traded in the first quarter of 2021. U.S. Equities – Exchange Matched ADV fell 11% MoM but…
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Derivatives Market Derivatives Market volumes saw a significant increase of 36.7% to reach a record RUB 16.4 trillion (February 2021: RUB 12.0 trillion) or 221 million contracts (February 2021: 162.2 million), of which 5.2 million contracts were options and 216.7 million contracts were futures. ADTV was RUB 747.0 billion (February 2021: RUB 599.9 billion). By…
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Both part of Deutsche Börse Group, Eurex and Qontigo, have teamed up to offer factor investors an easy, transparent and cost-efficient alternative to trading the underlying equities or using OTC instruments. Stephan Flaegel, Global Head of Indices and Benchmarks, Qontigo said: Our STOXX Industry Neutral Ax Factor Indices suite relies on commercially accepted and academically…
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The additional STOXX TRFs are appealing to the banks because of their need to hedge their structured products with underlying equities. The advantage of Eurex’s Total Return Futures is that they synthetically replicate the returns of the underlying index equities without the need to own the shares. Randolf Roth, Member of the Executive Board at…
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The announcement said: The high level of trading activity on the exchanges boosted the contribution from the Securities & Exchanges business unit (+11.7%), supported by the fact that SIX enjoyed a market share of almost 100% in the trading of Swiss equities, with EU equivalence remaining suspended. The Group also highlighted the contribution of the…
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Additionally, a random cutoff mechanism is set to be introduced to the POS and pre-open allocation session to all relevant products in the derivatives market. This will include both morning and afternoon sessions. These changes will be implemented in order to prevent the chances of gaming strategies occurring when manipulating the Calculated Opening Price at…
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The exchange also reported a jump in FTSE China A50 Index Futures DAV and FTSE Taiwan Index Futures DAV with 485,141 contracts and 104,415 contracts in February, respectively. SGX also registered a surge in its commodities business. Forward freight agreement (FFA) traded volume surged 80% YoY with 150,601 contracts. Petrochemical derivatives and Paraxylene traded volumes…
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Eurex Repo posted a 29.8% MoM rise in GC Pooling, and 47.3% MoM increase in Repo markets. Feb-21 Jan-21 MoM Change Financial derivatives: Traded contracts Eurex Exchange European equity index derivatives (million) 61.7 61.8 -0.16% European interest rate derivatives (million) 55.5 43.6 27.29% European equity derivatives (million) 24.5 23.9 2.51% Total (million) 142.0 129.5 9.65%…
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