Slight FX Trading Volume Decline Seen in Euronext in May 2021

The Pan-European stock exchange Euronext has released the trading volume data report of May 2021.

The report showed that a total of 72,747,502 transactions were done in the cash market during the month, which is 5.2% up month-on-month from April, of which the number was 69,183,400. In addition, the average-daily-volume (ADV) for May went up to 3,464,767, which is 0.1% MoM up from the prior month, which was 3,459,170.

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The total FX volume done in Euronext during the month was $391 billion, showing a slight MoM decline of 0.3% compared to April where the number was $392.84. The decline is 4.5% when we look at year-on-year figures, dropped from $409.77 in the same period of May 2020. ADV FX showed a 4.4% MoM growth from April, to $18.64 billion from $17.85 billion. Just like the total FX volume, the ADV figures took a YoY nosedive from $19.51 billion seen in the same period last year, a decline of 4.5%.

Moving to the listings, the number of issuers on equities in Euronext was 1,879, up 0.5% from 1,869 MoM reached in April. The number of listed securities in funds was 3,859, unchanged compared to the last month. However, it declined 18.8% YoY for the same period in 2020.