Total trading volume on SEFs averaged $829.6 billion in notional value per day during the month of January, up 77.0% from the previous month and up 52.8% from January 2017. Trading activity in both interest rate and foreign exchange products reached their highest level ever, rising to $745.16 billion and $58.02 billion respectively in average daily notional value traded in January. In the interest rate sector, the increase in trading volume was driven mainly by a rise in on-SEF trading of forward rate agreements, which was up 164.8% from December 2017 and up 44.2% from January 2017.
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