NEX spot FX volumes decrease 2% MoM in July to $81.6 billion

NEX Group plc (LON: NXG), formerly known as ICAP plc has published their average daily volume data for July 2017.

The volume figures cover electronically traded products – spot foreign exchange, US Treasury products, European and US repo products.

NEX Electronic Markets Volumes – July 2017

Average daily volume (in USD billions, single count)
July YoY% change June MoM% change 12 Months ended 31 July % change
2016 2017 2017 2016 2017
US Treasury 153.8 145.2 (6%) 166.1 (13%) 163.8 166.1 1%
US Repo 211.3 225.2 7% 226.5 (1%) 211.2 223.4 6%
European Repo (in EUR billions) 169.4 228.0 35% 220.2 4% 173.6 202.8 17%
Spot FX 80.4 81.6 1% 83.3 (2%) 86.7 82.7 (5%)

Volumes as seen above were down 2% MoM, but higher YoY by 1%.

This has been a weaker year overall up this point for Forex volumes. Case in point, for NEX Group, its rolling metric for the 12 months ending on July 31st 2017, volumes stand at $82.7 billion, this is 5% lower then the same period from 2016 where volumes were at $86.7 billion.

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