Brokerage group ATFX announced on Thursday that it hit $733bn in trading volume over the course of the third quarter.
The company said that it was ranked fifth in the Finance Magnates Quarterly Intelligence Report’s trading volume rankings.
In terms of growth areas by asset class, trading in FX pairs with ATFX raise almost 10% in Q3 compared to the Q2 of this year. Crypto also rose by just under 4.0%.
Trading in energy products was close to flat having risen 1.1% over the same time frame. ATFX said demand remained strong for trading in oil and gas.
Interestingly, the category that saw the biggest growth in trading volume, at least in percentage terms, was indices trading.
ATFX said that this increased 39.0% in Q3 compared to Q2, noting that there is growing demand among traders to take advantage of volatility on stock market indices.
ATFX has been expanding rapidly over the past couple of years, with a mixture of new hires, new licenses and acquisitions. Most recently the company opened a new office in Mexico as part of its plans to expand in LATAM.