FMX FUTURES EXCHANGE ADDS NEEDED RESILIENCY, CAPACITY, AND LIQUIDITY TO THE US INTEREST RATE FUTURES MARKET

Welcome to our newest FCM participant, Citi. Together, we’re driving greater capital efficiencies, leveraging FMX’s clearing relationship with LCH and growing the future of futures trading.

An informative white paper from Coalition Greenwich (a division of CRISIL), “The Portfolio Margining Imperative for Interest-Rate Derivatives,” explores the associated benefits the FMX Futures Exchange will provide for the U.S. interest rate futures landscape, such as potential margining optimization benefits and opportunities for market participants to clear their swaps in one place at LCH.
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The exchange opened for trading SOFR futures, the largest notional futures contract in the world, on September 23, 2024.

Ten of the world’s leading global investment banks and market-making firms join BGC in the creation of FMX to launch a premier U.S. Treasury and U.S. Interest Rate Futures trading marketplace.

FMX Futures Exchange received CFTC approval to operate an exchange for U.S. Treasury and SOFR futures, the most widely traded futures contracts in the world, for trading on FMX. FMX combines FMX’s leading U.S. Treasury and FX businesses with a state-of-the-art U.S. interest rates futures platform.