CME Group Benchmark Administration

CME Group Benchmark Administration capitalizes on CME Group’s wealth of electronic transaction-based data in the calculation of its indices and benchmarks.

CME Group Benchmark Administration is a registered Benchmark Administrator, authorized and supervised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Our benchmarks are calculated using data from CME Group's highly liquid and regulated futures, options, FX and cash markets, to provide transparent, robust and reliable benchmarks.

Benchmark indices

Money Market

CME Term SOFR Rates provide an indication of the forward-looking measurement of overnight SOFR, based on market expectations implied from derivatives markets.

$1.6T

CME SOFR FUTURES REPRESENTATIVE NOTIONAL PER DAY IN Q4 2022

A forward-looking benchmark rate for managing interest rate risk in euro-denominated financial instruments. Utilizing multiple robust data sources including liquidity from CME Group’s €STR derivatives market, CME Term €STR offers transparent and reliable rates across tenors of 1, 3, 6, and 12 months.

€135B

In daily transaction data underpinning the rates

A suite of daily, volume-weighted average (VWAP) repo rate benchmarks for the Euro, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The benchmarks are euro-denominated and represent secured one-day interest rates.

€425B

AVERAGE DAILY REPO TRANSACTIONS

Developed in response to market demand, this is a daily, secured index designed to measure the effective cost of funding through repo trades in the UK government bond market (UK GILTs).

£68B

AVERAGE DAILY REPO TRANSACTIONS

Calculated in cooperation with JBOND Totan Securities, the leading electronic trading platform for Japanese repurchase agreements. This offers a reliable way to track JPY sovereign repos, calculated based on trades executed on JBOND. All eligible repo trades use Japanese government bonds as collateral and are centrally cleared through the Japanese Securities Clearing Corporation.

¥1.8T

AVERAGE DAILY REPO TRANSACTIONS

Commodities

An end-of-day index that represents a single price for a basket of underlying Energy futures listed on NYMEX, this index is listed in points and based on a starting value of 100 on launch date.

 

460K

AVERAGE DAILY CONTRACT VOLUME

An index that represents the price of Soybean Oil futures as a percentage of the Soybean Crush Margin which is the revenue received from selling soybean oil and soybean meal. This index is provided across nine pairs of Soybean Oil and Soybean Meal Futures to provide the Soybean Oilshare for a full year’s listing.

1M Contracts

UNDERPINNED OPEN INTEREST

FX

Track spot rate fixing prices for six of the most referenced currency pairs across the globe, calculated four times per day, five days a week.

 
 

The CME EUR/USD Cross Currency Basis Index measures the basis point deviation from the covered interest rate parity implied forward FX price.

3

Benchmark calculation underpinned by 3 liquid CME futures

Fixed Income

Volume-Weighted Average Prices (VWAPs) and Volume-Weighted Average Yields (VWAYs) for on-the-run US Treasuries (2 Year, 3 Year, 5 Year, 7 Year, 10 Year, 20 Year and 30 Year), calculated and published four times a day.

$10B

AVERAGE DAILY TRANSACTIONS

Volatility

A cross-asset class family of implied volatility indices, derived from the world’s most actively traded options on futures markets across major asset classes, the the CVOL Indices provide a representative measure of the market’s expectation of 30-day forward risk.

200+

Distinct CVOL Indices and Derivative Indicators

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