In the face of extraordinary global volatility and many participants working remotely, March 2020 proved to be Tradeweb’s busiest month ever, with ADV of $1 trillion in March 2020, an increase of 41.5% year-over-year. This included exceptionally high volumes across asset classes in March, and a new record for daily volume was set on March 3, the day of the Federal Reserve emergency rate cut, with more than $1.5 trillion traded.
Repo: Daily volumes rose 32.5% YoY to $235.4 billion. Bilateral repo activity grew with an increased reliance on the benefits of electronic execution given elevated market volatility