LONDON and SINGAPORE, April 16,
2018 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and
most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that it
reached an all-time high quarterly international average daily
volume (ADV) of 4.7 million contracts during first quarter 2018, up
38 percent over the same period last year.
EMEA quarterly average daily volume hit an all-time high of 3.7
million contracts per day in the first quarter of 2018, up 37
percent from first quarter 2017. This was driven largely by
strong performance in Commodities, with Agricultural Commodities up
53 percent and Metals up 49 percent.
APAC quarterly average daily volume was also at an all-time high
of 923,000 contracts per day in the first quarter of the year, up
41 percent from the corresponding period last year. This was
driven largely by a strong performance across both the financial
and commodities product suite, with Equity Index volumes up 117
percent, Metals up 75 percent, Foreign Exchange up 56 percent, and
Energy up 43 percent.
"With CME Group's broad array of futures and options products
available virtually round the clock, our EMEA-based customers are
increasingly realizing the benefits of trading on our exchanges as
they look to hedge their risks," said William Knottenbelt, Senior Managing Director
and Head of International, CME Group.
"Record quarterly volumes from our franchise in Asia Pacific in the first quarter of the year
signal that market participants in the region are realizing the
benefits of managing their risks on a robust, liquid and regulated
marketplace like ours," said Christopher
Fix, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, CME Group. "We will
continue to be committed to helping our clients in the region with
their hedging and trading needs."
Globally, CME Group reached an all-time high quarterly average
daily volume of 22.2 million contracts during first-quarter 2018,
up 30 percent from first-quarter 2017. CME Group
first-quarter 2018 also saw record options volume, averaging 4.9
million contracts per day, up 31 percent versus first-quarter 2017,
with electronic options averaging a record 3.1 million contracts
per day, up 45 percent over the same period last year.
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
products and metals. Around the world, CME Group
brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex®
electronic trading platform. CME Group also operates one of
the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers
through CME Clearing, which offer clearing and settlement
services across asset classes for exchange-traded and
over-the-counter derivatives. CME Group's products and
services ensure that businesses around the world can effectively
manage risk and achieve growth.
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