EBS
I mentioned in a recent column the increasing noise around fragmentation in equity markets, specifically end user frustration and unhappiness with it, but it is noticeable to me that the same discussion is gaining more volume in FX. Now I need to stress that this is not me (for about the 10th time) predicting consolidation […]
Following new records for three platforms reported earlier this week, a second group of platforms has unveiled strong turnover data for February. CME Group says that notional average daily volume (ADV) across its futures and options product suite was $98 billion in February, a 33.1% increase from January and a 32.6% increase from February 2019. […]
While activity on the primary FX venues was mixed month-on-month thanks to January not being a roll month for CME, average daily volume (ADV) on all three venues was lower year-on-year. Refinitiv reports ADV of $83 billion for spot FX across its platforms in January, a 6.4% increase from December, but a 12.6% decline from […]
Chris Soriano, executive director, head of cash emerging markets, Americas at EBS, will be speaking at the Profit & Loss Latin America event in Mexico City on March 25. Ahead of the event, he discusses the key opportunities and challenges facing firms trading NDFs, both in LatAm and globally. Profit & Loss: What do you […]
The podcast is back for 2020 and Colin Lambert and Galen Stops immediately try to dampen new year’s spirits with a look at what was a pretty poor 2019 for the FX platforms. On a more positive note, Lambert thinks that 2020 could be a breakout year for two services in the FX industry as […]
Welcome to 2020 and may I wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year – if we’re looking in purely market terms I suppose that means some volatility. There were a few things that caught my eye over the holiday period, all of which I will, hopefully, get to in the next week, but […]
December was a mixed month for CME Group with the FX futures and options franchise seeing new highs but EBS hitting its lowest point since it started reporting numbers in 2007. Average daily volume (ADV) on EBS in spot FX was $56.9 billion per day in December. This was based upon a 22 day trading […]
There is plenty for Colin Lambert and Galen Stops to get their teeth into this week as the BIS released a series of papers studying the data in the Triennial FX Turnover Survey. From working out who the mysterious “others” were in the survey, through some initially confusing execution data, to a signalling of the […]
Is it time to really start to get worried about the primary FX venues? I have written before about the decline in volumes at these venues but one could be forgiven for thinking the decline is now becoming a little precipitate. Both Refinitiv and EBS reported their lowest spot ADV since they started reporting (so […]
Following downbeat reports from other venues earlier this week, the primary FX venues have also released weak volume data for November, with all three of CME, EBS and Refinitiv Matching reporting their lowest ADV for the year to date – the latter two platforms actually hitting their lowest ADV since they started reporting data over […]
