Japanese Forex giant GMO Click Securities, part of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has just published its key operating metrics for December 2015, with the data revealing robust increases in both OTC and on-exchange Forex trading volumes when compared with November 2015 levels.

Let’s take a look at the particular metrics for December 2015:

• GMO Click reported OTC Forex volumes of JPY 77.47 trillion ($649.6 billion) for December 2015, a result which is 14.9% stronger than the reading of JPY 67.42 trillion registered in November 2015.
• OTC Forex volumes in December 2015 were, however, 37.4% lower than in December 2014.
• On the brighter side, the number of FX Neo accounts kept growing and reached 427,276 at the end of December 2015.
• The number of contracts traded on Click365, the on-exchange FX margin trading service, amounted to 510,835, up 39.7% from the reading of 365,620 registered in November 2015 and down 11.9% from the result registered in December 2014.

GMO Click’s OTC Forex volumes (red line). Unit: trillion yen

You can view detailed data about GMO Click’s operating metrics by clicking here.