74% Growth in Asia and 49% in Europe Drive a Surge in International Securities Trading in Q2 2025

In Q2 2025, trading in International securities on our markets increased by 53.4% vs. Q2 2024, for a Total Dollar Volume of $156.9 billion.

Year to Date International Dollar Volume is $315 billion, 60.4% increase from Q2 2024, and just slightly less than the total year 2023 International Dollar Volume, which was $323 billion.

This increase reflects the overall trends of the diversification of investments outside of the U.S.

Top Trading international OTCQX securities included: Roche Holding Ltd (SIX Swiss: ; OTCQX: RHHBY) and Metaplanet Inc. (Tokyo: ; OTCQX: MTPLF).

The majority of the regions experienced increases in Dollar Volumes compared to Q2 2024:

Asia: + 74%
Europe: + 49%
ME – Africa: + 72%
North America (excluding the U.S.): + 17%
South America: – 21%

To see the growth in International trading on our markets visit our Q1 2025 blog.
View overall trading information for Q2 2025 here.

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Matt Fuchs

Matthew Fuchs, EVP of Market Data, leads the product development, distribution and sales of market data at OTC Markets Group. Prior to joining OTC Markets Group, he served in a number of financial technology roles at the National Research Exchange, Bearing Point and Arthur Andersen. Matt received a BA from Columbia University