Posts written by Sarah Rudolph

CME Group announced it will launch the world's first baseball futures contracts, which will track the CME FSPI Sports Indexes (CME FSPI), on October 12 pending regulatory review.

Marex Group has appointed John Pietrowicz as its new chair of the board, succeeding Robert Pickering. Pietrowicz previously served as the chief financial officer of CME Group from 2014 to 2023.

Connamara Technologies on Tuesday announced the promotion of Daniel J. Davis to president. He had previously been the company's chief revenue officer.

OKX filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform. The crypto exchange operator has also raised new funding at a $25 billion valuation.  

CME Group Inc. is shelving plans to launch a 24/7 oil contract following industry concerns about unintended consequences and possible additional risk in the marketplace.  

Cboe Global Markets is exploring listing perpetual futures based on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), as competition grows among US exchanges to bring the highly levered instruments that dominate the crypto market to new asset classes, Bloomberg reports.  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission this week sent two new prediction market-related rules to the White House's Office of Management and Budget for review that could impact litigation over the agency’s jurisdiction over event contracts.

S&P Dow Jones Indices and Cboe announced a 25-year extension of their licensing agreement giving Cboe the exclusive rights to offer trading in S&P's  flagship S&P 500 Index (SPX) options. The longstanding collaboration will continue through 2051.

Anthropic's IPO prospectus cautions potential investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," Reuters reported, calling it "an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology."  

OpenAI agents bombarded a United Nations website with search requests and then used aggressive techniques to access data on the system in June, according to an independent research report published Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported.  

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the NYSE have signed an MOU setting out a framework for cooperation between the two exchanges across dual listings, ETFs, index products, market data, and ESG initiatives.