CME Group Stock Price, News & Analysis

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, reported strong trading volumes for Q3 2025, achieving the second-highest average daily volume (ADV) of 25.3 million contracts. September also saw robust performance with 26.1 million contracts ADV.

Notable achievements include a record quarterly cryptocurrency ADV of 340,000 contracts ($14.1 billion notional), with record volumes in both Micro Ether and Ether futures. Interest Rate products led volume with 13.4 million contracts ADV, while Equity Index products reached 6.3 million contracts ADV. International trading remained strong with 7.4 million contracts ADV.

The company's BrokerTec platform achieved a record U.S. Repo ADNV of $401 billion, marking a 31% increase. Customer collateral balances stood at $132.7 billion in cash and $153 billion in non-cash for the three months ending August 2025.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has filed with the CFTC to expand its cross-margining agreement with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). The enhancement, expected to be implemented by December 2025 pending regulatory approval, will allow eligible end-user clients to benefit from capital efficiencies when trading U.S. Treasury securities and CME Group interest rate futures with offsetting risk exposures.

To participate, clients must use the same dually-registered Futures Commission Merchant and broker/dealer at both clearinghouses. The arrangement will enable clients to have positions in eligible products at both CME Group and FICC's Government Securities Division carried in a cross-margining account, with margin requirements based on combined risk exposure.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has announced the launch of options on Solana (SOL) and XRP futures scheduled for October 13, 2025, pending regulatory review. The new offerings will include options on SOL, Micro SOL, XRP, and Micro XRP futures, with daily, monthly, and quarterly expiries.

The expansion follows significant success in their existing crypto futures products, with Solana futures reaching over 540,000 contracts ($22.3 billion notional) and XRP futures exceeding 370,000 contracts ($16.2 billion notional). In August 2025, Solana futures achieved record monthly ADV of 9,000 contracts, while XRP futures hit 6,600 contracts ADV.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has achieved significant milestones with its Adjusted Interest Rate (AIR) Total Return futures. The suite reached a record open interest of 1 million contracts (equivalent to $365 billion notional) and set a single-day volume record of 109,000 contracts ($40 billion notional) on September 11, 2025.

The company's AIR Total Return futures are experiencing substantial growth, with average daily volume reaching 25,000 contracts in 2025, marking an 80% increase year-over-year. These products, available across major global indices including S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100, offer institutional investors a cost-effective alternative to OTC total return swaps while helping manage equity financing risk.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has announced the launch of enhanced options market data analytics tools. The new dataset provides essential options "Greeks" (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, Rho) and implied volatility metrics for the top 40 futures contracts across all major asset classes.

The launch comes amid significant growth in options trading, with CME Group reporting record trading levels in 2024 at 5.5M contracts ADV, further increasing to 5.6M ADV in H1 2025. The tools will be available in real-time and as historical data, supporting various trading needs including portfolio analytics, risk modeling, market making, and quantitative research.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has announced significant milestones for its credit futures products. Trading volume has exceeded 450,000 contracts since their June 2024 launch, while open interest (OI) reached a new high of 6,800 contracts, representing over $700 million in notional value as of September 4, 2025.

The credit futures, based on Bloomberg U.S. corporate bond indexes, are the first contracts offering duration risk management through intercommodity spread with U.S. Treasury futures. The products feature automatic margin offsets against CME Group's interest rate and equity futures, contributing to $60 billion in daily efficiencies across asset classes.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, has scheduled its Q3 2025 earnings announcement for Wednesday, October 22, 2025, before market open. The company will release written highlights and earnings press release at 6:00 a.m. Central Time.

An investor conference call will follow at 7:30 a.m. Central Time, where executives will address analyst questions. Investors can access the call via webcast on CME's Investor Relations website or by phone using the following numbers: 877-918-3040 (US) or +1 312-470-7282 (International) with participant passcode 1944793.

CME Group (NYSE:CME) announced that major financial institutions including Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley will participate in the launch of BrokerTec Chicago's U.S. Treasury trading platform on October 6, 2025.

The new central limit order book will enable trading of seven on-the-run benchmark U.S. Treasuries with smaller notional sizes and tighter price increments. BrokerTec recently achieved a record single-day average daily notional volume of $1.05 trillion in Q1, while CME Group's U.S. Treasury futures and options reached an all-time average daily volume record of 8.8 million contracts in 2025.

CME Group (NYSE:CME), the world's leading derivatives marketplace, reported its second-highest August average daily volume (ADV) of 28.1 million contracts. The company achieved significant milestones across multiple asset classes, with Interest Rate ADV leading at 16.2 million contracts, followed by Equity Index ADV at 6.3 million contracts.

Notable achievements include a record monthly ADV in cryptocurrency products, with Micro Ether futures reaching 271,000 contracts and Ether futures hitting 27,000 contracts. BrokerTec U.S. Repo ADNV increased 29% to a record $380 billion, while customer collateral balances for the three months ending July 2025 totaled $132.5 billion in cash and $148.8 billion in non-cash.