Reports have found that an average of 13.8K contracts in CME Bitcoin futures, which are equivalent to around 69K bitcoin, have been traded on a daily basis as of March 2021. Additionally, the recently launched CME Ether futures has witnessed trades of 767 contracts (the equivalent of 38.4K ether) on average per day since it…
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Options ADV reached 3.3 million contracts up by 65% MoM and Energy ADV was 2.2 million contracts, with a 11% MoM increase compared to previous month. Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.7 million contracts, up by 30.8% MoM. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 781,000 contracts and Metals ADV of 719,000 contracts. Additional highlights from January…
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The four new electricity contracts are: Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Tokyo base-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Tokyo peak-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Kansai base-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Kansai peak-load futures. The contracts are denominated in Japanese yen using the arithmetic average of the 30-minute Spot Market (Day-Ahead) prices published by the Japan Wholesale Power Exchange…
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The ADV for Q4 at 16.2 million contracts were up 3.8% up compared to Q3 when it was 15.6 million contracts. The highlights from the fourth quarter include: Record Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 2 million contracts, representing a 332% increase in ADV over Q4 2019 Record Micro E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures…
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Bitcoin broke records yesterday by soaring through its previous all-time high, up more than 15% in the past 24 hours. At the time of writing yesterday, bitcoin was trading around $22,838 – well above any previous high achieved by the cryptoasset. In its wake other peers such as ethereum are also soaring. ETH has hit a…
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Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products, said: Based on increasing client demand and robust growth in our Bitcoin futures and options markets, we believe the addition of Ether futures will provide our clients with a valuable tool to trade and hedge this growing cryptocurrency. Ethereum is the second-largest…
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Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is planning a launch of a new blockchain trading platform and a native token Sberbcoin. Russian business news outlet RBC reported on Monday that Sberbank plans to release its digital currency Sberbcoin in 2021 around the same time as the Russian Central Bank prepares the launch of the digital ruble. Sberbank has…
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Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.6 million contracts, same as previous month. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 759,000 contracts and Metals ADV of 705,000 contracts. Additional highlights from November include: Overall ADV grew 6% from November 2019 Record SOFR futures ADV of 87,000 contracts, including a single-day volume record of 240,288 contracts on November 19,…
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Eventus Systems, Inc., global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, today announced that G.H. Financials (GHF) has chosen Eventus to meet its trade surveillance needs worldwide. In the beginning of early 2021 the London-based exchange-traded derivatives clearing firm will deploy the cloud-based version of the Eventus Validus platform. European shares have…
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In the beginning, the daily indexes will include two years of historical data on the seven individual treasury and FX volatility indexes, as well as an aggregate G5 FX currency index: 10-Year Treasury CVOL Index (price and yield volatility indexes) G5 FX CVOL Index EUR/USD CVOL Index GBP/USD CVOL Index JPY/USD CVOL Index AUD/USD CVOL…
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