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CME Group has reported record January trading volumes across multiple asset classes, with average daily volume (ADV) reaching 25.7 million contracts, marking a 2% increase from the previous year and setting new records in energy, agricultural, and cryptocurrency products.
The derivatives marketplace saw particularly strong performance in its interest rate products, with U.S. Treasury futures and options reaching a January record of 6.7 million contracts per day. Ten-year Treasury note options trading surged 54% to 1 million contracts daily, while Treasury Bond options increased 47%.
Energy trading showed remarkable growth, with overall ADV rising 29% and setting an all-time record in options trading at 606,000 contracts. Henry Hub Natural Gas options achieved a historic high, while WTI Crude Oil futures trading increased 34% to 1.3 million contracts daily.
Agricultural trading demonstrated significant momentum, with January ADV up 35% and options trading reaching record levels at 469,000 contracts. Corn futures showed particularly strong growth, rising 60% to 505,000 contracts daily, while soybean futures increased 31%.
The cryptocurrency segment exhibited the most dramatic growth, with ADV soaring 180% compared to January 2024. Micro Bitcoin futures led this surge with a 255% increase to 84,000 contracts daily, while Micro Ether futures grew 223%.
International trading activity also showed robust growth, with overall ADV increasing 11% to 7.8 million contracts. EMEA trading rose 12% to 5.7 million contracts, while Asia ADV grew 8% to 1.8 million contracts.
Fixed income trading through BrokerTec saw U.S. Repo average daily notional value increase 10% to $318.4 billion, while European Repo activity grew 13% to €310.3 billion. In foreign exchange, EBS Spot trading volume rose 21% to $66.5 billion daily.
The exchange maintained substantial customer collateral balances, with cash collateral averaging $75 billion and non-cash collateral at $177.7 billion for the three months ending December 2024.
You can view historical FX Spot ADV on EBS, compared to other venues, here.
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A liquidity bridge is the technology that sits between your trading platform and your liquidity providers, handling all order routing and price streaming in real time. Without a correctly configured bridge, an A-book or hybrid broker cannot route client orders to the market, cannot manage hedging effectively, and cannot control execution quality. Despite being the most operationally critical piece of brokerage infrastructure after the trading platform itself, the liquidity bridge is also one of the least understood - particularly among brokers who inherited a setup without knowing exactly how it was built. This guide explains what a bridge does, how it works technically, and why its configuration directly determines the quality of execution your clients experience.