Cboe Global Markets, Inc. reports developments across its global markets business, including derivatives, equities and FX trading, clearing and investment solutions. Recurring updates include monthly trading volume statistics, market share, revenue capture metrics, earnings releases and activity in proprietary index products such as S&P 500 Index options and the VIX Index.
Company news also covers Cboe's exchange operations, market-structure initiatives, regulatory engagement, strategic realignment actions and partnerships tied to its trading floor and market data services. The company traces its listed-options role to the launch of the first listed options exchange in 1973.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has announced plans to launch Cboe FTSE Bitcoin Index futures on April 28, 2025, subject to regulatory review. The new futures will be based on the FTSE Bitcoin Reduced Value (1/10th) Index (XBTF) and will trade on Cboe Futures Exchange.
The cash-settled futures are designed to complement Cboe's recently launched Bitcoin U.S. ETF Index options (CBTX, MBTX), providing traders with expanded tools for implementing trading and hedging strategies. The futures will be cleared through OCC and will settle P.M. on the last business day of each month.
This launch represents the first product under Cboe's collaboration with FTSE Russell aimed at digital assets market innovation. The expansion adds to Cboe's growing crypto offerings, which include spot bitcoin ETF listings, cash-settled index options, and margined bitcoin and ether futures.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has reported strong trading volumes for March 2025, with several notable achievements across its global operations. The company achieved an all-time quarterly high of 1.1 billion contracts in U.S. options, with an ADV of 18.2 million contracts.
Key highlights include:
- Monthly record ADV of 18.8 million contracts across four options exchanges
- New quarterly proprietary index options ADV record of 4.8 million contracts
- Record monthly SPX options ADV of 3.9 million contracts
- European equities reached record ADNV of €16.2 billion
- Global FX posted record monthly Spot Full Amount ADNV of $15.9 billion
Year-over-year improvements were seen across multiple segments, with multiply-listed options up 28.0%, index options up 29.9%, and European equities showing significant growth of 60.3%. The company also provided RPC/net revenue capture guidance for Q1 2025.
Cboe Clear Europe has launched a groundbreaking clearing service for European Securities Financing Transactions (SFTs) in cash equities and ETFs. The first transactions were executed between Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking as Principal Lender and JP Morgan as Borrower.
The service transforms bilateral SFT processing into a centrally cleared model, utilizing BNY and JP Morgan as Tri-Party Collateral Agents, with Pirum handling trade instructions. The clearing service covers 19 European Central Securities Depositories and is available to principal lenders, special participant lenders, and borrowers.
Key benefits include:
- Enhanced capital efficiencies for stock borrowing and lending activities
- Cross-margining advantages between cash equities and SFTs
- Improved settlement efficiencies
- Elimination of agent lender disclosures
- Streamlined fees management and corporate actions
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network, has scheduled its first-quarter 2025 earnings release and conference call. The company will release its financial results before market opening on Friday, May 2, 2025.
A conference call featuring senior management presentations will commence at 7:30 a.m. CT (8:30 a.m. ET). Investors can access the live audio webcast and presentation materials through Cboe's Investor Relations website at ir.cboe.com under Events. For telephone access, participants can dial (800) 715-9871 (toll-free) or (646) 307-1963 (toll) using Conference ID 8325940. A replay will be available approximately two hours after the call concludes.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has announced plans to launch options on the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index (EWI) on April 14, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new cash-settled options will be based on 1/10th the value of the S&P 500 EWI.
The S&P 500 EWI includes identical constituents as the traditional S&P 500 Index but assigns each component a fixed 0.2% weight during quarterly rebalancing. This structure offers different exposure compared to the cap-weighted S&P 500 - as of December 20, 2024, the bottom 400 constituents represented about 80% of the EWI versus just 26% in the standard index.
The launch aims to provide investors with additional tools for risk management and diversification, particularly given increasing market concentration. The options will trade during regular hours from 9:30 a.m. ET to 4:15 p.m. ET. This initiative expands Cboe's suite of S&P DJI index-based products, which includes SPX options, Mini SPX Options, and various volatility indices.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has promoted Tim Lipscomb to Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, adding him to the company's executive leadership team. Lipscomb, who has served as Senior Vice President and CTO since 2022, will continue overseeing Cboe's global technology platform expansion.
Under his leadership, Cboe has achieved notable technological milestones, including successful migrations of equities, options, and futures markets to the unified Cboe Titanium platform. The company maintained 100% uptime across 25 of its 27 global platforms in 2024, with greater than 99.9% uptime across all platforms.
Lipscomb joined Cboe in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer of Cboe Europe, following 20 years at Bank of America. His team has been instrumental in improving market access, latency, and customer experience, with Cboe seeing improved market share in every new market following migration to Cboe Ti.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has successfully completed the migration of Cboe Canada's NEO Trading Platform to its Cboe Titanium technology platform on March 3, 2025, marking the end of a 15-month integration effort. The migration included the NEO-L, NEO-N, and NEO-D trading books, unifying them with MATCHNow on a single platform.
The technology upgrade positions Cboe Canada to enhance its market presence and expand trading solutions in the Canadian market. The migration also included relocating Cboe Canada's primary and secondary data centers to new facilities in Toronto and Chicago. Key improvements include redesigned opening and closing auctions, the introduction of Canada's only equity binary order entry protocol, and latency equalization capabilities.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) reported record-breaking trading volumes for February 2025. The company achieved an all-time high U.S. Options Average Daily Volume (ADV) of 18.0 million contracts across its four U.S. options exchanges, including a record multiply-listed options ADV of 13.6 million and S&P 500 Index (SPX) options ADV of 3.5 million contracts.
Notable single-day records were set on February 21, including total U.S. options volume of 25.7 million contracts, SPX options volume of 4.7 million contracts, and 2.6 million zero-days-to-expiry SPX contracts. The company's futures segment saw its largest block trade of 2,200 contracts in iBoxx iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index futures. Additionally, Cboe Europe's block trading platform achieved monthly records with €15.4 billion total notional traded and €771.3 million average daily notional value.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) has announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.63 per share for the first quarter of 2025. The dividend will be paid on March 14, 2025, to shareholders who are recorded as stockholders as of February 28, 2025. The announcement comes from the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network's Board of Directors.
Cboe Global Markets (CBOE), the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network, has announced its participation in the BofA Securities 2025 Financial Services Conference in Miami, Florida. The presentation is scheduled for Wednesday, February 12 at 12:10 p.m. ET.
Key executives participating in the presentation include Fredric Tomczyk (Chief Executive Officer), Jill Griebenow (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer), David Howson (Executive Vice President and Global President), and Chris Isaacson (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer).
Investors and interested parties can access the live webcast and replay of the presentation through the company's investor relations website at ir.cboe.com under Events and Presentations. The archived webcast will be made available approximately one hour after the presentation concludes.