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March 2025 highlights compared to March 2024 include:

• Interest Rate ADV of 14.6 million contracts, an increase of 31%

  • SOFR futures ADV increased 40% to 4.5 million contracts

  • 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 39% to 2.4 million contracts

  • 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note futures ADV increased 31% to 1.6 million contracts

  • 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note options ADV increased 27% to 1.1 million contracts

• Record monthly Equity Index ADV of 9.7 million contracts

  • Record Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures ADV of 2.2 million contracts

  • E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 21% to 2.4 million contracts

  • Micro E-mini S&P 500 futures ADV increased 91% to 1.6 million contracts

• Energy ADV of 2.6 million contracts, an increase of 21%

  • Henry Hub Natural Gas futures ADV increased 40% to 678,000 contracts

  • Henry Hub Natural Gas options ADV increased 71% to 316,000 contracts

• Agricultural ADV of 1.8 million contracts, an increase of 20%

  • Corn futures ADV increased 52% to 476,000 contracts

  • Corn options ADV increased 47% to 158,000 contracts

• Foreign Exchange ADV of 1.4 million contracts, an increase of 12%

  • Japanese Yen futures ADV increased 7% to 236,000 contracts

  • Canadian Dollar futures ADV increased 24% to 143,000 contracts

• Metals ADV of 720,000 contracts

  • Micro Gold futures ADV increased 81% to 137,000 contracts

• Cryptocurrency ADV of 176,000 contracts, an increase of 59% ($8.4 billion notional)

  • Micro Bitcoin futures ADV increased 18% to 72,000 contracts

  • Micro Ether futures ADV increased 180% to 67,000 contracts

  • Ether futures ADV increased 122% to 12,000 contracts

• International ADV increased 31% to 9.3 million contracts, with EMEA ADV up 33%, Asia ADV up 30% and Latin America ADV up 7%

• Micro Products ADV

  • Micro E-mini Equity Index futures and options ADV of 4.1 million contracts represented 42.6% of overall Equity Index ADV and Micro WTI Crude Oil futures accounted for 2.1% of overall Energy ADV

• BrokerTec U.S. Repo average daily notional value (ADNV) increased 23% to $351.5 billion and European Repo ADNV increased 13% to €336.9 billion and U.S. Treasury ADNV increased 31% to $119.5 billion

• EBS Spot FX ADNV increased 39% to $76.2 billion and FX Link ADV increased 84% to 49,000 contracts ($4.4 billion notional per leg)

• Customer average collateral balances to meet performance bond requirements for rolling 3-months ending February 2025 were $75.8 billion for cash collateral and $179.8 billion for non-cash collateral

As 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.

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