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CME Group Inc. is an American global markets company. It is the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, and trades in asset classes that include agricultural products, currencies, energy, interest rates, metals, stock indexes and cryptocurrencies futures.

CME Group subsidiaries include:

Chicago Mercantile Exchange | Chicago Board of Trade | New York Mercantile Exchange
Commodities Exchange, Inc. | NEX Group | Kansas City Board of Trade
S&P Dow Jones Indices (27.0% ownership)

CME Group Reports Solid Demand for Micro BTC Contracts

May 11, 2021

CME Group, which is one of the United States’ top derivatives exchanges, announced on Tuesday that the trading volume of recently launched micro Bitcoin futures surpassed 100,000 contracts within only the fir...

CME Group Launches Micro-Bitcoin Futures Contract

May 3, 2021

With the increasing retail demand for cryptocurrency derivatives, Chicago-based CME Group has launched on Monday micro Bitcoin futures in the United States, which is a smaller-size version of its existing Bitco...

CME Group Launches Ethereum Futures Contracts

February 8, 2021

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, a leading United States derivatives exchange, has launched the much-anticipated Ethereum futures contracts on Sunday after the initial announcement late last year....

CME Group’s Chief Economist Calls Bitcoin An ‘Emerging Competitor’ to Gold

February 6, 2021

Recently, Bluford Putnam, Managing Director and Chief Economist at CME Group, said that Bitcoin is an “emerging competitor” to gold. Putnam is “responsible for leading global economic analysis and monitoring...

CME Group to Debut Ether Futures in February 2021

December 16, 2020

CME Group today confirmed the launch date of its Ether futures contracts as of February 8, 2021, the latest move by the world’s largest futures exchange operator to expand into the crypto business. CME’s Eth...

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...

CFTC Urges Bitcoin Exchanges Surveillance to Prevent Futures Manipulation

December 1, 2017

The US CFTC has just stated its worries related to the launch of Bitcoin futures contracts and regulated binary options. As the CME, the CBOE and Cantor Exchange are each preparing to launch their own derivat...

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...

Nations Respond to Need for Crypto Legislation

November 24, 2017

Within the last several weeks, the price of Bitcoin has surpassed $8000. Many cite the cause of the boom to the fact that CME announced that it will be offering Bitcoin futures trading by the end of the year....