The proportion of spot FX traded algorithmically by corporates shot up to 28% in 2016, from only 10% in 2015, according to a Greenwich Associates study.
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Across the wider FX market, corporate use of algos increased to 10% from 7%, states the report, written by Richard Johnson, vice-president of market structure and technology at Greenwich, which investigated long-term investor appetite for FX algos.
Growth was concentrated outside the most active FX trading corporates – those trading more than $50 billion per year in notional value – where algo use was already well established.
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