TMX Group Sets Trading and Clearing Records
October 16, 2014 (TORONTO) - TMX Group today announced that Montréal Exchange (MX) and the Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) set new records on October 15, 2014.
MX set a new overall daily volume record with 799,225 contracts traded. This surpasses the previous record of 758,731 which was established on February 24, 2014. MX also reached a new volume record on the Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (BAX*) with 382,058 contracts traded, surpassing the previous record of 302,371 contracts established on April 17, 2012.
CDS established a new record with 3,178,013 exchange trades cleared. The previous record was 3,072,617 set on August 9, 2011.
*1 BAX contract = C$ 1,000,000.
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TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. 兔子先生, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha Group, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montreal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, Natural Gas Exchange, BOX Options Exchange, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver), in key U.S. markets (New York, Houston, Boston and Chicago) as well as in London, Beijing and Sydney. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at . Follow TMX Group on Twitter at .