FXSpotStream’s 2020 ADV (Jan-June) is USD 43.425 billion, up 18.66% when compared to the same period during 2019 of USD36.595 billion June’s ADV of USD43.287 billion was 22.25% greater than CBOE HotSpot’s ADV of USD34.621 billion – exceeding CBOE/HotSpot’s ADV every month since November 2018, with the exception of 1 month Note that the ADV figures for…
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The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) announced the sale of UDC Finance, its asset finance business in New Zealand, for NZ$762 million to Shinsei Bank Limited. The sale is inline with ANZ’s strategy to simplify its business and follows a review of UDC Finance. The purchase price represents a price-to-book ratio of 1.2x…
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The company’s Overall Volume in May reached USD$758 billion, up by 1.4% MoM compared to April. The trading volume was a bit disappointing with a 5.48% decline, compared to May last year when it registered $802 billion. And still almost half of the volumes registered in March 2020 when crossed the $1 trillion mark for…
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Technology provider AMTS Solutions considerably expanded its range of product offerings with the launch of MetaTrader 5 gateways to dozens of liquidity providers, including prominent providers like LMAX, CFH, IG, Barclays, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. eWarrant Japan Securities K.K. launched MetaTrader 5 for Nikkei and Dow Jones indices trading. The company implemented its services…
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FXSpotStream also reported that even through the extremely volatile period, the service was up with no interruptions. Order volumes increased twice in March compared to January and massage updates per second increased 300%. The number of clients going live in first quarter of 2020 rose 19%, compared to Q1 2019. NDF and Forwards volume also…
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ASIC reported an increase in retail activity across the securities market during the Covid-19 period. The Commission’s market analysis shows the turbulent environment of the market increases the risk of loses, especially for retail investors. ASIC has found that some retail investors engage in short term trading strategies unsuccessfully attempting to time price trends. When choosing…
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Following March’s all-time ADV high of USD62.4 billion, April’s ADV decreased to USD33.976 billion – down 45.53% MoM. April’s ADV of USD33.976 billion was 14.93% greater than CBOE HotSpot’s ADV of USD29.256 billion – exceeding CBOE/HotSpot’s ADV every month since November 2018, with the exception of 1 month. All ADV figures for April are based…
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FXSpotStream also announced a rise of 65.22% in ADV YoY (Mar ’20 vs Mar ’19). The company’s Overall Volume in March reached USD1.372 trillion, crossing the USD1 trillion mark for the first time in any given month since the business was started in 2011. March’s ADV of USD62.378 billion was 12.60% greater than CBOE HotSpot’s…
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FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, has just announced that it has added Barclays as the 14th liquidity providing bank to FXSpotStream’s price streaming service. Barclays is now added to the list of the existing liquidity providers, which include BofA Merrill Lynch, MUFG Bank, BNP Paribas, Citi, Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse, Goldman…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream just released its volumes report for the first month of 2020. The ADV figures for January are based on 22 trading days. ADV in January increased 19.11% to USD37.033 billion compared to December 2019. January’s ADV of USD37.033 billion was 9.74% greater than CBOE HotSpot’s ADV of USD33.592 billion – exceeding…
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