NextTrade Achieves Annual Trading Volume of 47.3 Billion Shares and Trading Value of 2,338 Trillion Won

2.42 Million Average Daily Active Accounts
Pursuing Development of Differentiated Services

NextTrade (NXT), Korea’s first Alternative Trading System (ATS), announced on March 4, 2026, that it achieved an annual trading volume of 47.3 billion shares and a trading value of 2,338 trillion won. This represents 12% of the total trading volume and 29% of the trading value in the Korean stock market.

Employees are working at NextTrade in Yeouido, Seoul. Photo by Yonhap News Agency

NXT provided additional trading opportunities through pre-market and after-market sessions. The average daily trading value in these sessions grew from approximately 1.1 trillion won at the time of its launch to 8.9 trillion won recently-an increase of over eightfold. As of last month, the average number of active accounts participating in the NXT market daily was 2.42 million, with 840,000 accounts (35%) participating in the pre-market and 660,000 accounts (28%) in the after-market, respectively.

NXT introduced differentiated maker-taker fee structures, moving away from the uniform fee system, and set its fee rates at an average of 30% lower than those of KRX. As a result, investors saved a total of 29.85 billion won in transaction costs over the past year.

Currently, a total of 32 domestic securities firms participate in the NXT market, accounting for 89% of the 36 domestic securities firms participating in the KRX market. While the investor base was initially concentrated among individual investors, it has gradually diversified, with foreign investors now accounting for 13% of the total.

Going forward, NXT plans to pursue the development of differentiated services, the expansion of tradable assets to include ETFs, fractional investments, and Security Token Offerings (STO) to meet global ATS standards, and to provide feedback on the rationalization of ATS-related regulations.

Haksoo Kim, CEO of NextTrade, stated, “I would like to express my gratitude to all stakeholders who enabled the market’s stable operation from launch through our first anniversary and who contributed to growth beyond our expectations. Moving forward, we will continue to lead changes in the capital market and provide better services to investors, thereby contributing to attracting more global investment to Korea’s capital market and advancing its normalization process.”

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