CME Group, the global derivatives exchange, and marketplace, today announced it has cleared two new swap currencies: the Indian Rupee (INR) Overnight Index Swaps (OIS) and Korean Won (KRW) Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). With these two new additional currencies, CME Group now offers 21 clearable OTC IRS currencies. Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director of Financial…
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CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) the leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached an all-time open interest record of 129 million contracts on June 14, 2017, surpassing the previous open interest record of 125.7 million contracts reached on May 11, 2017. June 14 also represented the highest-volume trading day in 2017 to…
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CME Group Inc (NASDAQ: CME) the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today it set a total open interest record of 125.7 million contracts yesterday, May 11, 2017. The new record follows four consecutive record open interest days. Prior to this four-day streak, the previous open interest record of 123.1 million contracts was set…
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CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the successful launch of S&P 500 and E-mini S&P 500 Monday Weekly options on futures. The total volume through the first two trading days was 5,490 contracts with participation from 10 firms. Open interest reached 5,319 as of today, April 4th. Launched in…
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Forex volume on CME Group it was announced earlier averaged 978,000 contracts per day in March 2017, up 7% from March 2016 and up 28% from February 2017. Last month Brazilian real currency contracts helped drive volume, as the Latin American country's currency has come back after being battered over the past few years. Highlights for March…
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FTSE Russell, the global index and data provider, announced that Sean Smith has joined the firm as Managing Director of Derivatives Licenses, to lead the company’s efforts to further expand its options and futures business. Dozens of FTSE Russell indexes are used as the underlying benchmarks for options, futures and OTC cleared derivative products. Indexes…
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The derivatives marketplace operator CME Group just announced the expansion of the foreign exchange (FX) offering with six FX monthly futures contracts. These new contracts provide FX market participants with access to the front months of the FX forward curve with the capital and operational benefits of trading listed futures. FX monthly futures are scheduled…
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The derivatives marketplace operator CME Group just keeps breaking records, announcing that 2016 average daily volume (ADV) reached 15.6 million contracts, up 12% from 2015. Five of CME Group's top ten daily volume days occurred within 2016, with three of those during the fourth quarter. CME Group fourth-quarter 2016 ADV reached a 16.3 million contracts, up…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that on December 9, 2016, the Honorable Sara L. Ellis of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an Opinion and Order (Order) finding that Defendant Yumin Li stole in excess of $300,000 from Li’s former employer by trading the employer’s account…
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CME Group announced that it has appointed Julie Winkler and Kim Taylor to new roles on its management team. Winkler, a 20-year veteran of CME Group, will serve as the company's Chief Commercial Officer, overseeing sales, product marketing, research and data analysis functions as well as the company's innovation lab. Winkler will report to CME…
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