LONDON, Dec. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced
today that one million contracts have now been traded on its
London-based derivatives exchange,
CME Europe. CME Europe launched in April 2014, and the total volume of contracts
traded since launch stood at 1,002,497 as of 10 December 2015.
CME Europe's growth has been broadly driven across its product
range in FX, energy and agricultural commodities futures contracts.
This includes the award winning, euro-denominated, physically
delivered cocoa futures contract launched in May 2015.
Cees Vermaas, CEO of CME Europe,
said: "CME Europe has established itself in the European market,
and our commitment to providing customers with choice and
best-in-class processes for clearing, margining and pricing is
resonating with a wide range of market users. This milestone
is an important one for our growth overall, and we remain committed
to serving the risk management needs of market participants in
Europe."
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together
through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform, its trading
facilities in New York and
Chicago, and through its
London-based CME Europe
derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
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