ICAP Volumes Take A Turn In May – ADVs Out Of The Doldrums With Increase of 11% Year on Year
After a relatively lengthy period of stagnation, the UK's interdealer ICAP displayed a return to form during May, with an
Average daily electronic broking volumes (ADV) for British interdealer ICAP have demonstrated a healthy move in the upward direction this May, with the markets operator completing the month with an ADV of $788.2 billion.
This represents a 9% increase over April’s $725.7 billion figure and betters the same month last year by 11%.
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Subsequent to a contraction of trading volumes in FX which reached an all-time low in December last year with ADVs for that month at $635.9 billion, the firm embarked on a series of developments including the recent addition of EBS Direct, a trading platform which ICAP considers to be relationship based and after its launch in mid-May, arrived on the market as an additional product to ICAP’s multi-dealer platform EBS Markets.
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ICAP faces competition from FXall in this particular arena, a company recently acquired by Reuters.
EBS’s wholesale electronic FX offering performed well in April, demonstrating a 17% increase over the previous month, whilst ICAP showed a decline. It is not certain whether ICAP’s increase this month is attributable to its diversification, a factor that time will only tell.
What increase? According to this table, fx spot is down 2.3 billion in May MOM.
the post was referring to ICAP’s total figures