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Achieved record quarterly average daily volume of 36.2 million contracts, driven by simultaneous record volume across all six asset classes: rates, equities, energy, agricultural products, metals, and foreign exchange.

International expansion accelerated with record average daily volume of 11.4 million contracts, a 30% increase over 2025, led by record highs in EMEA, APAC, and Latin American regions.

Performance was bolstered by the essential role of CME markets in managing risk during periods of significant economic transition and geopolitical uncertainty.

Pricing strategy utilized volume tiering to encourage incremental trading, which provided risk management benefits to customers while driving highly profitable incremental volume to the exchange.

Delivered record levels of capital efficiency, saving customers an average of over $85 billion in margin per day, reinforcing CME's role as a deep and efficient liquidity pool.

Market data revenue reached record levels, marking 32 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth, supported by a surge in simulated trading environments for new retail participants.

Scheduled to launch 24/7 crypto trading on May 29 to meet global demand for continuous risk management in digital assets.

Expanding FICC cross-margining agreements to end-user clients beginning April 30, which is expected to deliver significant capital efficiencies similar to the House program's $1.5 billion max savings.

Migrating two agricultural products to the cloud by the end of 2026, utilizing a new Dallas facility as a critical testing ground for clients.

Transitioning Micro Equity Index options to financial settlement to better serve retail-focused participants who prefer expiring against daily settlement prices over physical delivery.

Continuing to deploy $1.55 billion in proceeds from the OSTTRA sale toward opportunistic share repurchases, with approximately $758 million remaining as of the end of Q1.

Google preferred shares converted into common shares during the quarter, which will simplify future reporting by consolidating earnings into basic and diluted share counts.

U.S. treasury open interest reached an all-time high of 36.3 million contracts, driven by unprecedented demand for treasury futures and options.

Management clarified that perpetual futures remain illegal under the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act of 2000, emphasizing CME's focus on convergence between cash and futures for commercial hedgers.

Adjusted operating margin reached a record 72.8%, reflecting the high operating leverage of the business as $200 million of the $238 million revenue increase flowed to net income.

CME is exploring tokenization of cash and treasuries with Google and FICC to reduce friction in moving collateral outside traditional banking hours.

Management is evaluating the potential issuance of a CME stablecoin to further enhance capital mobility and margin efficiencies for clients.

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The shift to financial settlement addresses retail feedback, as these traders often prefer cash settlement over physical delivery into a futures contract.

Institutional-grade E-mini products will remain deliverable to preserve the $40 billion in capital efficiencies utilized by large-scale hedgers.

Growth is being driven by a surge in simulated trading platforms where new traders use CME data to learn futures before entering live markets.

While data licensing policies like end-of-day charges contribute, the core driver remains the sticky recurring revenue from real-time professional subscribers.

Management noted that FanDuel's application for an FCM license does not change the partnership, as contractual restrictions prevent them from operating competing venues.

The joint venture has seen over 150,000 new accounts, with market-based contracts (equities, crypto, energy) now exceeding 30% of total prediction volume.

WTI is increasingly viewed as a global provider of last resort due to disruptions in Middle Eastern supply and the growth of U.S. exports.

CME has seen its WTI market share increase to north of 79-80% as liquidity retrenches to core home exchanges during periods of geopolitical stress.

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