CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group,
the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures reached a
daily volume record of 152,649 contracts traded on Sept. 17, surpassing the previous single-day
volume record of 86,459 contracts traded on July 25, 2019. SOFR futures open interest also
reached an all-time high of 351,662 contracts on Sept. 17, surpassing the prior record of 311,371
contracts on Sept. 16.
Since launch in May 2018, over 200
global market participants have traded more than 6.9 million SOFR
futures contracts at CME Group. A record 120 large open interest
holders held open positions in SOFR futures as of Aug. 27, 2019.
SOFR futures trade alongside highly liquid Eurodollar, Fed Fund
and Treasury futures to offer customers enhanced spread trading
capabilities through CME Group's electronic trading platform, CME
Globex, and capital efficiencies via margin offsets of up to 80
percent between relevant CME futures positions.
CME Group recently announced it will launch options on
Three-Month SOFR futures starting on Jan. 6,
2020, pending regulatory review.
SOFR futures are listed by and subject to the rules of CME. More
information is available at cmegroup.com/sofr.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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