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CME Group SOFR Futures Reach New Volume and Open Interest Records
CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that its deeply liquid SOFR futures reached a
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[{"type":"text","content":"CHICAGO, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that its deeply liquid SOFR futures reached a new, all-time record average daily volume (ADV) of 5.4 million contracts in September and an open interest record of 13,159,646 contracts on September 17.\n\nAdditionally, SOFR futures now have a record 1,144 large open interest holders (LOIH), based on the CFTC's latest Commitments of Traders report.\n\"Our SOFR futures are the world's most actively traded futures contracts, providing clients with the deepest liquidity and strongest efficiencies for managing short-term interest rate risk,\" said Agha Mirza, CME Group Global Head of Rates and OTC Products. \"These new records in ADV, open interest and LOIH reflect the growing liquidity we are seeing across the SOFR curve and our unrivaled SOFR complex.\"\nMonth-to-date in September, CME Group SOFR options ADV reached 2.5 million contracts, the second-highest ever, with open interest of more than 44.5 million contracts.\nLaunched in May 2018, CME Group SOFR futures have broad participation from global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, principal trading firms and other types of traders. The contracts are eligible for margin offsets versus adjacent futures and options, portfolio margining with cleared interest rate swaps, as well as cross-margining with FICC-cleared cash U.S. Treasury notes, bonds and certain Repo transactions.\nFor more information, please visit www.cmegroup.com/sofr. \nAs the world's leading 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. \nCME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex, and E-mini are tra...