First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff CME Group in its 2025 fourth quarter earnings call reported its most successful year ever in 2025, marking a fifth straight year of record volume across all asset classes, including interest rates, energy, metals, agriculture, and crypto. Average daily volume rose 6% to 28.1 million […]
Read articleFirst Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Clive Furness, a 47-year veteran of commodities and derivatives markets and a friend to many in the derivatives world, has been appointed director, financial markets at Expana, a price reporting agency for food and agriculture, he announced on LinkedIn. The appointment follows a consulting engagement […]
Read articleFirst Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Intercontinental Exchange announced that ICE Clear Credit has received SEC approval to expand its Covered Clearing Agency designation to include U.S. Treasury clearing, making it the first alternative venue for Treasury securities clearing. Now fully operational, the service introduces industry-standard clearing to Treasury markets and […]
Read articleFirst Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The Cboe research department is not just thinking about vanilla solutions for event contracts. Instead, they might roll out some saffron pistachio-flavored options. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Cboe Global Markets is positioning itself at the center of the fast-evolving event-trading landscape by […]
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