Eurex Group has reported a daily average volume of 8.9 million contracts in January 2015, a 15 percent increase on January 2014, which saw 8.5 million contracts processed.
Of the 8.9 million, 6.7 million were Eurex Exchange contracts, an increase on January 2014’s figure of 5.5 million, however contracts on the US-based International Securities Exchange were down from 3 million in January 2014 to 2.2 million in 2015.
In total in January 2015, 139.6 million contracts were traded at Eurex Exchange and 43.5 million were traded ay ISE.
At Eurex Exchange, the equity index derivatives segment totalled 76.6 million contracts compared to 58.4 million in January 2014, an increase of 31 percent.
Futures on the EURO STOXX index recorded 29.2 million contracts, while options on the blue chip index surpassed that with 29.9 million. Meanwhile, DAX index futures reached 2.9 million contracts, and DAX options reached 5.3 million.
Eurex’s KOSPI product recorded a 44 percent increase on January 2014, processing 2.7 million contracts, however the equity derivatives segment dipped slightly from 23.5 million contracts in January last year to 21.9 million in 2015.
This was made up of 16.9 million equity options contracts and 5 million single stock futures contracts.
The Eurex Exchange interest rate derivatives segment processed 39 million contracts in January 2015, a slight increase from 38 million in January 2014.
The Euro-Bond-Future reached 14.4 million contracts followed by the Euro-Bobl-Future reached 8 million, while the Euro-Schatz-Future reached 5.2 million.
The two Euro-OAT-Futures recorded 1.6 million contracts between them, and the three Euro-BTP-Futures totalled 2.4 million.
The Eurex Exchange segment dividend-based derivatives reached an approximate figure of 965,000 contracts, while volatility derivatives almost doubled their January 2014 figure, reaching 1.2 million contracts.
