During the month of May, the number of BM&F market segment transactions carried out via the CME Globex GTS order routing system reached a record 67,698 trades, a 273% increase over the 18,122 trades in April.
The system also set a historic record of 645,825 contracts traded, a 136.97% growth in comparison to the 272,540 contracts traded during the previous month.
The order routing agreement enables customers in more than 80 countries using CME Globex, CME Group’s electronic trading platform, to trade BM&FBOVESPA products directly, via the Brazilian exchange’s electronic trading platform, GTS.
These products include: futures and options on One Day Inter-Bank Deposits, the Bovespa Stock Index, commodities, energy, and metals. The partnership between CME Group and BM&FBOVESPA also allows Brazilian investors to trade CME Group products directly through the GTS system, the only derivatives trading system in Latin America that can be accessed via CME Globex.
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