BIS Report Shows Global Derivatives Volume Declined Towards End of 2015

[kreslik.news]

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Switzerland-based organization that has over 90 of the world’s central banks as its members, today released a new report with global OTC derivatives statistics through the end of December 2015, and showed a broad-based decline in market activity during the second half (H2) of last year.

During H2 last year, the notional amount of outstanding contracts in the global derivatives markets fell by 11% by the end of the year, from $552 trillion in the prior half to $493 trillion for the last six months of 2015, according to the BIS press release.

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