CLS volumes dip in October

Volumes were down 1.4% from September and $135 billion off the highs reached in June

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The average daily input value of matched instructions submitted to foreign exchange settlement utility CLS dipped by $35 billion, or 1.4%, to $2.46 trillion in October on a single-count basis, compared with the previous month.

In September, volumes submitted to CLS stood at $2.495 trillion – the second-highest volume of FX trades it received this year.

The highest volumes were seen in June, when the outcome of the UK's vote to leave the European Union prompted a surge of FX activity to pour

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