CME Group Archives

CME Group to Reopen Eurodollar Options Trading Pit in August

June 10, 2020

As the world starts to slowly reopen following the coronavirus pandemic, CME Group announced today in Chicago that it will be reopening its Eurodollar options trading pit on the 10th of August. In the lead u...

BrokerTec & TriOptima Deliver End-to-End Repo Workflow Solution

May 28, 2020

BrokerTec and TriOptima announced this Thursday that they have joined forces to deliver an end-to-end repo workflow solution for industry participants, the first in the industry, the companies said in the joi...

CME Group Launches Options on Micro E-Mini Futures Product

May 27, 2020

Derivatives giant CME Group, announced today it would launch options on its Micro E-mini S&P 500 and Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contracts. The new options will be available for trading in the fall of...

CME Group Launches New Gold Futures Contract Amid Liquidity Squeeze

March 25, 2020

As brokers and liquidity providers struggle with a liquidity squeeze on gold, CME Group announced on Tuesday that it will launch a new gold futures contract to give traders increased flexibility. Specificall...

CME Group Reports Solid FX Volumes in February 2020

March 3, 2020

Exchange operator CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the holding company for CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX exchanges, has just released its February 2020 aggregated volumes, sharing its trading statistics across key business ...

February FX Options in Retreat at CME Group

March 12, 2018

CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) has just released its Options Monthly Review for the month ending February 28, 2018, which showed a downward trend in its FX volumes compared to a month ago, though it managed to post ...

CME Raises Margin Requirements; CBOE Launches BTC Futures Benchmark Index

December 14, 2017

Just five years ago, Bitcoin’s market cap was less than $1 billion; now, it reaches nearly $300 billion. The cryptocurrency market cap as a whole exceeded half a trillion dollars just within the last week, an...

Marketfactory to Offer Bitcoin Futures Trading via CME with FX API

December 13, 2017

The availability of Bitcoin futures on several exchanges is having ripple effects on the rest of the financial services industry. CBOE has already supported these instruments with CME Group slated to launch t...

CME Group Bitcoin Futures to Require 35% Margin, Launch in Mid-December

December 1, 2017

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOE) have both issued separate announcements to specify details about their upcoming Bitcoin futures contracts. The CME said that live tr...

CME Group to Test Bitcoin Futures, Price Hits New All-Time High

November 16, 2017

Bitcoin continues to be reacting to market news in yet another volatile session. The top cryptocurrency is rallying strongly today, especially in the past couple of hours. Just after an announcement by the CM...