Overall traded volume on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform reached a record EUR20.7 billion in the last quarter of 2014.
That represents an increase of 31.7 per cent from the previous quarter and more than double the volume traded in Q4 2013.
The proportion of volume in fixed income-based ETFs increased to 33 per cent, while trading in equity-based ETFs dropped to 63 per cent, a change of 4 percentage points for each asset class. Volume in commodity-based ETFs stayed flat at 4 per cent. “Buy” requests executed on Tradeweb rose by 3 percentage points to 55 per cent, surpassing “sells” by 10 percentage points.
