Hotspot FX completed June with average daily volumes slightly lower than those achieved in May, itself a month with a 10% decline in daily trading activity compared with April this year
Read moreBATS Global Markets has eported that the migration of its options market to the NY5 data center in Secaucus, New Jersey went as expected and the BATS Options system handled more than 2 billion messages during the past two days with message rates exceeding 4 million messages per second at the close
Read moreAverage daily volumes at newly-acquired institutional ECN Hotspot FX totaled $31.5 billion compared to $26.4 billion in February, whilst total trading volume was up from $528.5 billion to $694.9 billion
Read moreHotspot, which was acquired by BATS on 13th March, will continue to operate its matching engine in the New York area. The London matching engine will target Europe and Asia and specific FX currencies that dominate the European and Asian trading hours
Read moreWith BATS Global Markets expected to complete it's reported purchase of KCG's ECN Hotspot FX on March 13th, we'll take a look at trading volumes in February for the Hotspot ECN. To kick-start February volume metrics as a possible sign of things to come across segments of trading venues, the ECN volumes have slumped by 23% compared with January this…
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