OREANDA-NEWS. Taipei foreign exchange market covers all foreign exchange transactions made by authorized foreign exchange banks and offshore banking units. After eliminating double counting arising from interbank transactions, total net trading volume in the market amounted to US$635.9 billion in December 2015. The average daily turnover was US$27.7 billion.

1. By trading counterparty:                

                                                                                                              (USD billions ,%)

Transactions between

banks and customers

Interbank transactions

Amount

%

 

Amount

%

163.2

25.7

With domestic banks

160.8

25.2

With foreign banks

311.9

49.1

Total

472.7

74.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.By trading currency:                       

                                                                                                             (USD billions ,%)

NTD/foreign currency

Third currency

 

Amount

%

 

Amount

%

NTD/USD

253.7

39.9

USD/RMB

148.8

23.4

NTD/other foreign currencies

 10.4

 1.6

EUR/USD

 82.1

12.9

Total

  264.1

 41.5

USD/YEN

 51.2

 8.1

 

AUD/USD

  24.8

   3.9

GBP/USD

  17.5

   2.8

other foreign currencies

  47.4

   7.4

Total

 371.8

  58.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.By transaction type:                         

                                                                            (USD billions ,%)

Items

Amount

%

Foreign exchange swaps

291.3

45.8

Spot transactions

267.9

42.1

Options

 36.4

 5.8

Outright forwards

 35.5

 5.6

Margin trading

  2.7

 0.4

Cross currency swaps

  2.1

 0.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.By trading platform:                        

                                                                             (USD billions ,%)

Items

Amount

%

Through brokers

190.8

30.0

Direct dealing

445.1

70.0

 

 

 

 

In addition to the above-mentioned foreign exchange transactions, other derivative products were also offered by banks. In December 2015, the turnovers of interest rate swaps and commodity price swaps ? options were US$2.5 billion and US$0.3 billion, respectively.