{"id":99357,"date":"2025-10-02T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:53:08","slug":"cme-to-offer-24-7-trading-for-crypto-contracts-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99357\/","title":{"rendered":"CME to Offer 24\/7 Trading for Crypto Contracts in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mifid-time-clock.png\" alt=\"MiFID II Prompts Banks to Keep Time\"\/>                                <\/p>\n<p class=\"u-text-m u-line-h-m\">CME Group, the world\u2019s leading derivatives marketplace, announced that its cryptocurrency futures and options will be available to trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week beginning in early 2026, pending regulatory review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-text-m u-line-h-m\">\u201cWhile not all markets lend themselves to operating 24\/7, client demand for around-the-clock\u00a0cryptocurrency\u00a0trading has grown as market participants need to manage their risk every day of the week,\u201d said\u00a0Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group. \u201cEnsuring that our regulated\u00a0cryptocurrency\u00a0markets are always on will enable clients to trade with confidence at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-text-m u-line-h-m\">Beginning in early 2026, CME Group\u00a0cryptocurrency\u00a0futures and options will trade continuously on CME Globex with at least a two-hour weekly maintenance period over the weekend. All holiday or weekend trading from Friday evening through Sunday evening will have a trade date of the following business day, with clearing, settlement and regulatory reporting processed the following business day as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-text-m u-line-h-m\">Cryptocurrency\u00a0futures and options have reached record volumes at CME Group in 2025. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Record notional open interest of\u00a0$39 billion\u00a0on\u00a0September 18<\/li>\n<li>Record August average daily open interest of 335,200 contracts, up 95% year on year and representing an average\u00a0$31.6B\u00a0notional<\/li>\n<li>Record August\u00a0ADV of 411,000 contracts, up 230% year on year and representing\u00a0$14.9 billion\u00a0notional<\/li>\n<li>Record of more than 1,010 large open interest holders across\u00a0cryptocurrency\u00a0products the week of\u00a0September 25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"u-text-m u-line-h-m\">Source: CME<\/p>\n<p>                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marketsmedia.com\/wp-content\/themes\/Markets_Media_RS\/static\/img\/email.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            NEWSLETTER SIGN UP<\/p>\n<p>And receive exclusive articles on securities markets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CME Group, the world\u2019s leading derivatives marketplace, announced that its cryptocurrency futures and options will be available to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-99357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}