OREANDA-NEWS. October 9, 2012. On September 27, 2012 the number of FX Market clients of Moscow Exchange reached 2000 people.

The new trading record was set in the period from September 17 to September 21, 2012 both in the total trading volume (at about RUB3 billion) of the Moscow Exchange FX market and in the trading volume of client transactions (RUB392.5 billion).

The success of the Exchange"s project called “Sponsored DMA access to the FX Market of Moscow Exchange” is proved by a considerable growth of trading volume (48%) in 2012 that reached RUB83 trillion compared to RUB56.3 trillion as for the week of September 17-21, 2011. Since the beginning of 2012 the average daily trading volume of the Moscow Exchange FX Market has come to RUB454 billion growing by 42% compared to September 17-21, 2012. At the same time, the trading volume of client transactions grew over RUB7.5 trillion. As a result, the share of client transactions was more than 12% for the FX Market in total and 20% for spot operations in particular.

The number of prime-brokers (banks and investment companies) providing their clients with access to the FX Market of the Moscow Exchange is also growing.