FX Weekly Trading on FMDQ Rises +7.70% to $2.3bn
Kindly see commentary below on the Foreign Exchange (FX) market with data for the week-ended June 19, 2026. Table 1 compares weekly turnover for trades between banks (FMDQ Dealing Member (Banks)/Authorised Dealers) and their clients for the weeks-ended June 11 and 19, 2026.
- In the FX Spot and Derivatives markets, the total turnover for the week-ended June 19, 2026,
was $2,323.07 million, representing an increase of 7.70% ($166.05 million) from the
$2,157.02 million reported for the week-ended June 11, 2026. The week-on-week
(WoW) increase in total turnover was jointly driven by the 6.80% ($145.64 million) increase in
FX Spot transactions, which recorded a total value of $2,286.93 million compared to $2,141.29
million in the week-ended June 11, 2026, and the 129.75% ($20.41 million) increase in FX
Derivatives transactions for the week-ended June 19, 2026. (See Table 1)
- The WoW increase in FX Derivatives turnover was driven by the 129.75% ($20.41 million)
increase in FX Forwards turnover
| Week-ended June 19, 2026 | Week-ended June 11, 2026 | WoW % Change |
WoW Change ($’mm) |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly | Daily Average |
% Share |
Weekly | Daily Average |
% Share | |||
| ($’million) | ($’million) | |||||||
| FX Spot | 2,286.93 | 457.39 | 98.44 | 2,141.29 | 535.32 | 99.27 | 6.80 | 145.64 |
| FX Forwards | 36.14 | 7.23 | 1.56 | 15.73 | 3.93 | 0.73 | 129.75 | 20.41 |
| Exchange- Traded FX Futures |
0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | N/A | N/A |
| FX Derivatives | 36.14 | 7.23 | 1.56 | 15.73 | 3.93 | 0.73 | 129.75 | 20.41 |
| Total | 2,323.07 | 464.62 | 100.00 | 2,157.02 | 539.25 | 100.00 | 7.70 | 166.05 |