CME Group shatters all-time quarterly record with 29.8M contracts per day—crypto volume alone hits $11.3B notional, fueled by surging demand for micro ether futures.

CME Group said its first quarter of 2025 produced a new all-time average daily volume record of 29.8 million contracts, up 13% year over year, with strength across interest rates, equity index, agricultural, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrency products. The company also reported record international average daily volume of 8.8 million contracts, highlighting broad-based activity outside the U.S. as well as particularly strong trading in EMEA and APAC.

✨ AI-generated background, compiled from web sources — not editorial content.

More coverage

• CME Sets Record Trading Volume: 29.8M Daily Contracts in Q1 2025 (stocktitan.net)
• CME Group Hits Record 29.8M Daily Trading Volume Across All ... (stocktitan.net)
• CME Group FX Volumes Jump 17% as Q1 Revenue Hits Record ... (financemagnates.com)
• CME extends by ten years exclusive license agreement with Nasdaq (fow.com)
• CME Group Q2 earnings exceed consensus on higher ADV, fees (seekingalpha.com)

Explore the topic

• Futures
• CME Group
• Quarterly Report