OREANDA-NEWS. Taipei foreign exchange market covers all foreign exchange transactions made by authorized foreign exchange banks and offshore banking units. After eliminating double counting arising from interbank transactions, total net trading volume in the market amounted to US$562.7 billion in November 2015. The average daily turnover was US$26.8 billion.

1. By trading counterparty:                

                                                                                                                               (USD billions ,%)

Transactions between banks and customers

Interbank transactions

Amount

%

 

Amount

%

146

25.9

With domestic banks

119.8

21.3

With foreign banks

296.9

52.8

Total

416.7

74.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.By trading currency:                       

                                                                                                                                 (USD billions ,%)

NTD/foreign currency

Third currency

 

Amount

%

 

Amount

%

NTD/USD

208.8

37.1

USD/RMB

104.8

18.6

NTD/other foreign currencies

  9.8

 1.8

EUR/USD

 93.3

16.6

Total

  218.6

 38.9

USD/YEN

 52.9

 9.4

 

AUD/USD

  25.0

   4.4

GBP/USD

  19.3

   3.4

other foreign currencies

  48.8

   8.7

Total

 344.1

  61.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.By transaction type:                        

                                                                                    (USD billions ,%)

Items

Amount

%

Foreign exchange swaps

245.0

43.5

Spot transactions

231.2

41.1

Options

 52.2

 9.3

Outright forwards

 29.2

 5.2

Cross currency swaps

  3.0

 0.5

Margin trading

  2.1

 0.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.By trading platform:                       

                                                                                    (USD billions ,%)

Items

Amount

%

Through brokers

141.8

25.2

Direct dealing

420.9

74.8

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to the above-mentioned foreign exchange transactions, other derivative products were also offered by banks. In November 2015, the turnovers of interest rate swaps and commodity price swaps ? options were US$3.4 billion and US$0.3 billion, respectively.