Cboe Clear U.S. Receives SEC Approval to Expand Clearing Capabilities
Cboe Clear U.S. is voluntarily adopting enhanced CFTC standards for financial resources, risk management and operational resilience.
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Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) announced that Cboe Clear U.S. received temporary SEC registration to expand its clearing capabilities to securities products. The registration adds to its existing authority to clear futures and swaps under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Cboe plans to initially use the registration to clear binary securities options tied to specified corporate key performance indicators, or business performance measures. These options are planned to list on Cboe Options Exchange and be available on Robinhood in fourth-quarter 2026. Cboe Clear U.S. also recently received CFTC approval to clear margined futures broadly and continues to clear digital asset derivatives.
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- Moderate pointSEC registration expands Cboe Clear U.S. clearing authority to securities products alongside futures and swaps.
- Moderate pointCFTC approval allows Cboe Clear U.S. to clear margined futures broadly.
- Minor point. Forward-looking: it has not happened yet and may not happen.Binary securities options are planned for Cboe Options Exchange listing and Robinhood availability in fourth-quarter 2026.
Negative
- Minor pointSEC registration is temporary, rather than permanent.
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SEC registration enables Cboe Clear
The registration expands CCUS's clearing capabilities beyond its existing authorities as a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) to clear securities products in addition to futures and swaps products. Together with recent enhancements to its regulatory framework and product scope, the milestone positions CCUS to support innovation and emerging opportunities across a broad range of assets and markets.
CCUS will initially use its SEC registration to clear Cboe's binary securities options tied to specified corporate key performance indicators (KPIs), which are planned to list on Cboe Options Exchange and be available on Robinhood in the fourth-quarter 2026. CCUS also recently received CFTC approval to clear margined futures broadly and continues to clear digital asset derivatives under its DCO designation.
"Clearing plays a critical role in bringing innovation to market," said Dale Michaels, Head of Cboe Clear
These efforts complement Cboe's longstanding partnership with The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)® and Cboe's continued commitment to supporting the established clearing infrastructure for traditional equity options.
The development builds on the growth of Cboe's established European clearing business, where Cboe Clear Europe has become the leading pan-European equities central counterparty, while expanding into new services such as securities financing transaction clearing. Together, these advances demonstrate Cboe's ability to extend its clearing capabilities across markets and asset classes.
To support its own future growth, CCUS has strengthened its infrastructure over the past year, including electing in June to become a Subpart C DCO. In doing so, CCUS is voluntarily adopting the enhanced standards the CFTC applies to systemically important DCOs for financial resources, risk management and operational resilience, aligning with those applied to leading global clearing organizations.
About Cboe Global Markets
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE) is a leading global markets operator with a long history of innovation in equity and index derivatives. Since launching the world's first listed options exchange in 1973, Cboe has pioneered landmark products, including the introduction of S&P 500® index options and the creation of the VIX® Index, the world's leading gauge of market volatility, reshaping how investors manage risk and access opportunity. Today, Cboe operates derivatives, equities, and FX markets, providing trading, clearing, and investment solutions for customers worldwide. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "may," "might," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue," and the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. All statements that reflect our expectations, assumptions or projections about the future other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance based on our growth strategies and anticipated trends in our business. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
We operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the loss of our right to exclusively list and trade certain index options and futures products; economic, political and market conditions; compliance with legal and regulatory obligations; price and new products and services competition and consolidation in our industry; decreases in trading or clearing volumes, market data fees or a shift in the mix of products traded on our exchanges; legislative or regulatory changes or changes in tax regimes; our ability to protect our systems and communication networks from security vulnerabilities and breaches; our ability to attract and retain skilled management and other personnel; increasing competition by foreign and domestic entities; our business and operational dependence on and exposure to risk from third parties; factors that impact the quality and integrity of our and other applicable indices; our ability to manage our global operations, growth, and strategic acquisitions, wind downs, divestitures, or alliances effectively; increases in the cost of the products and services we use; our ability to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others and the costs associated with protecting our intellectual property rights; our ability to minimize the risks, including our credit, liquidity, market, investment, counterparty, and default risks, associated with operating our clearinghouses; our ability to accommodate trading and clearing volume and transaction traffic, including significant increases, without failure or degradation of performance of our systems; misconduct by those who use our markets or our products or for whom we clear transactions; challenges to our use of open source software code; our ability to meet our compliance obligations, including managing our business interests and our regulatory responsibilities; the loss of key customers or a significant reduction in trading or clearing volumes by key customers; damage to our reputation; the ability of our compliance and risk management methods to effectively monitor and manage our risks; restrictions imposed by our debt obligations and our ability to make payments on or refinance our debt obligations; our ability to maintain an investment grade credit rating; impairment of our goodwill, long-lived assets, investments or intangible assets; the accuracy of our estimates and expectations; and litigation risks and other liabilities. More detailed information about factors that may affect our actual results to differ may be found in our filings with the SEC, including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and other filings made from time to time with the SEC.
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What does Cboe Clear U.S.'s SEC registration allow it to clear?
The temporary SEC registration allows Cboe Clear U.S. to clear securities products in addition to futures and swaps. Its initial planned use is clearing Cboe binary securities options tied to specified corporate key performance indicators.
When are Cboe's binary securities options planned to become available?
The binary securities options are planned to list on Cboe Options Exchange and be available on Robinhood in fourth-quarter 2026. Cboe Clear U.S. plans to clear these products using its SEC registration.
What regulatory standards is Cboe Clear U.S. adopting to support its growth?
Cboe Clear U.S. elected in June to become a Subpart C Derivatives Clearing Organization, voluntarily adopting enhanced CFTC standards for financial resources, risk management and operational resilience. These are the standards the CFTC applies to systemically important derivatives clearing organizations.