ITS trading volume reaches record $0.81 bln in February

Trading volume of stocks and depositary receipts on the international platform ITS rose to a record $806 million in January, a 20% increase from the $670 million recorded in the previous month.

Trading turnover on ITS continues to increase as more investors join the platform and align with patterns in the global stock market. The rise in trading volume is also driven by the growing demand for new instruments, such as ETFs, particularly those based on ITS’s own indexes.

In February, the top 10 most actively traded securities on ITS included the following stocks and ETFs: Freedom Holding Corp. (ticker: FRHC), NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Coinbase Global (COIN), Tesla (TSLA), Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares (TMF), CleanSpark Inc. (CLSK), SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF (BIL), ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ), Alibaba Group Holding Limited ADR (BABA) and Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL).

By the end of February, investors on ITS had access to more than 3,000 stocks, depositary receipts and ETFs from the US, Europe and Asia, with primary listings on U.S. exchanges NYSE and NASDAQ, as well as AIX.

 

About ITS

ITS is an international liquidity hub. Central to ITS's business model are the principles of best execution and smart order routing technology. These principles enable investors to execute securities transactions at the best prices available on the global financial market, regardless of the transaction volume. This technology ensures that the liquidity for foreign securities on ITS matches that of leading international platforms where these securities are traded.

ITS Central Securities Depository Limited, the central depository for ITS, offers depository services for the storage and settlement of securities. The depository has received Qualified Intermediary with primary withholding responsibility (WQI) status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Operating a clearing house that acts as a Central Counterparty, ITS assumes the counterparty role for all obligations of clearing participants and manages the clearing process for transactions on the ITS trading platform.

ITS also calculates its own indexes: the ITS World index (ITSW) and the ITS Shariah index (ITSS).

Trading of the first ETF in Central Asia and Caucasus, pegged to the performance of ITS’s own index – ITS World (ticker: ITSW), began on ITS in November 2024, providing a wide range of investors with a convenient and balanced instrument for investing and trading with a low entry threshold. In January 2025, the ETF lineup expanded with the introduction of a fund based on the ITS Shariah Index (ticker: ITSS).

ITS's direct clients include professional securities market participants from Kazakhstan and other countries, such as financial intermediaries who are accredited and directly registered at the AIFC. Investors, both private individuals and legal entities, access trading through these financial intermediaries, such as brokers and banks.

 

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