CME Event Contracts

Chicago, IL

Event ContractsEconomic IndicatorsWeatherInternational SoccerWNBA Basketball

Established derivatives exchange offering event contracts under its existing DCM license.
Added men's international soccer and women's professional basketball contracts (May 7, 2026), with the event-contracts MDP channel moving to 24/7 trading effective May 29.
Picked up Virtu Financial as a market maker in May 2026.
Partnered with FutureSports (July 29) to launch cash-settled futures on sports-performance indexes, tradable 24/7 including during live games — aimed at hedgers (stadiums, sponsors, insurers, broadcasters) rather than retail prediction-market bettors.
On August 5, 2026, ceded all sports and novelty contract supply within the FanDuel Predicts JV to Crypto.com, keeping only the financial-contracts leg.

Regulatory risk score

Licensing

DCM: Approved (legacy)

SEF: Approved

State coverage: Operating in 50 states

Jurisdiction strategy

Long-standing DCM with deep CFTC relationships; offers institutional-oriented event contracts on macro and sports outcomes.
Now bundled inside Interactive Brokers' unified routing alongside Kalshi and ForecastEx.
CEO Terry Duffy publicly distanced CME from sportsbook-style products on the July 22 earnings call.
As of August 5, CME has handed off all sports and novelty event-contract supply for its FanDuel Predicts joint venture to Crypto.com, retaining only the financial-contracts leg and its 51% JV ownership stake — a deliberate narrowing of gambling-adjacent exposure that supports a modestly lower risk score.

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Jul 31, 2026product-breadthstrategy
CME is leaning into product breadth rather than a direct event-contract volume race: a FutureSports tie-up for sports-performance futures and a July 27 single-stock futures launch across 50+ names suggest an exchange treating prediction-style products as one line in a broader retail-and-hedging push rather than a standalone bet against Kalshi/Polymarket liquidity.

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