GAIN Capital’s Institutional Units Report Strong Volumes in March 2017

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) has just reported trading volumes of its institutional business for the month ending March 2017, having largely shown a strong performance across ECN, SEF and SD facilities, according to a GAIN statement.

For the month of March, average daily volumes (ADV) at GAIN Capital’s GTX ECN and Swap Execution Execution Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Read this Term Facility (SEF) was reported at $11.8 billion, good for a modest increase of 7 percent month-on-month from $11.0 billion in February 2017. Across a yearly timeframe, March 2017 showed a more substantial jump of 61.0 percent year-on-year from March 2016.

Additionally, total trading volumes during the third month of 2017 came in at $271.6 billion, rising 23.0 percent from $221.6 billion in the month prior, coupled with a 61.0 percent surge year-on-year from the figures of a year ago.

Finally, the average daily trading volume across the company’s swap dealer (SD) facility amounted to $2.4 billion last month, incurring a decline of -20.0 percent month-on-month from $3.0 billion in February 2017. Conversely, this monthly drop was offset by a 5.0 percent rise year-on-year from March 2016.