Integral reports solid volumes for October, ADV tops $50 billion

abdelaziz Fathi

Foreign exchange trading volumes across Integral’s trading platforms rose to a yearly peak in October despite the stabilization in FX markets, which came after the specter of Covid over the global economy has receded.

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Higher volatility across financial markets led to a notable jump in trading activity on major institutional FX venues last month, industry data shows.

Integral said that the average daily volumes (ADV) across its platforms topped $50.5 billion last month, up 12.5 percent compared with the figure from September 2021, which was reported at $44.9 billion. Also, Integral’s ADV rose 15.3 percent compared to the same period in 2020.

Reported ADV represents volumes traded across the group’s entire liquidity network, including TrueFXTM and Integral OCXTM.

Trading desks at some of the largest players in the foreign exchange market saw higher volumes in October spurred by uncomfortably high inflation and constrained supply chains that encouraged speculators to pile back into the market. The trend of strong turnover was observed in the monthly figures from institutional venues like FXSpotStream, as well as hybrid platforms like Exness, which saw its monthly volumes top the $1 trillion milestone.

Integral’s Open Currency Exchange (OCX) brings a wide spectrum of FX market participants into a single integrated network of liquidity, where they can trade with each other. Clients of the OCX pay a monthly fee for access to the exchange, instead of per-trade fees. While it initially launched with a monthly subscription cost of $275, it was soon lowered to accommodate the trading volume of each user, rather than imposing an even charge to clients of all sizes.

Since the deployment of the platform in 2015, the Silicon Valley-based company has been working on several enhancements to bring major changes for existing clients that use the OCX, and attract new customers.

Just yesterday, Integral announced a partnership with FXCM’s institutional arm to launch a centrally cleared platform for contracts for difference (CFDs). The initiative enables investors in the wholesale markets to benefit from significantly reduced risks in the settlement of CFDs transactions.

The partnership taps into Integral’s pricing engine infrastructure to facilitate trading in standardized CFD products including major indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies. Further, it utilizes the prime brokerage services of FXCM Pro in conjunction with liquidity from market makers including Jump Trading.

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