Following a volatile start to Q2, a risk-off environment during recent weeks led to calmer market conditions at Eurex in June, with trading volume down 14 percent year-on-year. Overall, Eurex — Europe’s leading derivatives exchange and, together with Eurex Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparties — recorded 178.6 million contracts in June compared to 208.1 million in the same month last year. Interest rate derivatives increased by 3 percent to 94.5 million traded contracts. Meanwhile, volumes in equity derivatives dropped by 23 percent falling to 22.3 million contracts, while index derivatives fell by 30 percent down to 60.8 million contracts.