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Cboe Global Markets is a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, operating exchanges for options, equities, futures, and foreign exchange across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Craig Donohue

Chief Executive Officer

Fredric J. Tomczyk

Former CEO & Board Member

William M. Farrow III

Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Jill M. Griebenow

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Chris Isaacson

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

David Howson

Executive Vice President, Global President

Catherine Clay

Executive Vice President, Head of Global Leadership

Natan Tiefenbrun

Global Head of Cash Equities

Kenneth Hill, CFA

Senior Vice President, Treasurer & Head of Investor Relations

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. is an American financial exchange operator headquartered in Chicago. It owns and operates a portfolio of exchanges and trading venues across equities, options, futures, and digital assets. Founded in 1973 as the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the company also owns the stock exchange operator BATS Global Markets. Cboe is known for products such as the VIX volatility index for operating markets in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

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The flagship CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), known as Wall Street's "fear gauge," measures market expectations of near-term volatility from S&P 500 options. The comprehensive VIX suite includes futures, options, and exchange-traded products enabling investors to hedge volatility risk and implement sophisticated trading strategies.

VIX Volatility Index & Derivatives

Cash-settled options on the S&P 500 Index providing efficient exposure to U.S. equity markets for institutional and retail investors. SPX options enable risk management, hedging, asset allocation, and income generation with flexible contract sizes and expirations including zero-day-to-expiry (0DTE) contracts.

SPX S&P 500 Index Options

Comprehensive equity options marketplace across four U.S. options exchanges offering trading in thousands of listed equity and ETF options. Cboe achieved record average daily volume of 14.95 million contracts in 2024, representing the fifth consecutive year of volume growth.

U.S. Equity Options Trading

Futures exchange offering volatility futures (VIX), interest rate products, and plans to transition cash-settled bitcoin and ether futures from digital spot markets in 2025. Provides electronic trading infrastructure for derivatives on non-traditional underlying assets.

Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE)

Equity cash trading across multiple U.S. equities exchanges acquired through BATS Global Markets, providing high-performance electronic trading infrastructure with competitive pricing and advanced order types for stocks and ETFs.

Cash Equities Trading (BATS)

European derivatives trading platform offering index options, equity options, and futures across pan-European markets. Provides access to European equity and index volatility products with standardized contracts and central clearing.

Cboe Europe Derivatives

Comprehensive market data, analytics, and indices including Cboe LiveVol platforms offering real-time options analytics, trading activity analysis, and opportunity identification tools. Provides actionable insights from Cboe's market intelligence team and proprietary data feeds.

Data Vantage Analytics & Indices

Foreign exchange trading solutions and infrastructure supporting spot, forward, and options trading in major currency pairs across global FX markets with institutional-grade execution capabilities.

Global FX Trading

Cash-settled bitcoin and ether derivatives products including index options in collaboration with FTSE Russell. Transitioning to CFE platform in 2025 to leverage expertise in derivatives and clearing while focusing on regulated cryptocurrency exposure.

Digital Asset Derivatives

Cboe reported record full-year 2024 net revenue of $2.1 billion (up 8% YoY) and record adjusted diluted EPS of $8.61 (up 10% YoY), with all three business segments—Derivatives Markets, Data Vantage, and Cash and Spot Markets—contributing to growth. The company provided 2025 guidance expecting mid-single digit organic revenue growth.

Cboe Global Markets Reports Results for Fourth Quarter 2024 and Full Year

Craig Donohue was named CEO of Cboe Global Markets effective May 7, 2025, succeeding Fredric Tomczyk who transitioned to an advisory role through June 2025 and remains a member of the board of directors.

Cboe Global Markets Announces Leadership Transition - Craig Donohue Named CEO

Cboe Global Markets announced it would begin trading Options on Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) Futures starting Monday, October 14, 2024, providing market participants with additional tools to trade and hedge volatility of volatility.

Cboe Announces Options on VIX Futures Trading

Cboe announced plans to refocus its digital asset business to leverage core strengths in derivatives, technology, and product innovation by transitioning digital asset derivatives into existing Global Derivatives and Clearing businesses while winding down the Cboe Digital Spot Market in Q3 2024.

Cboe Global Markets Realigns Digital Asset Business

Cboe expanded its collaboration with FTSE Russell to drive product innovation in digital assets, leveraging combined expertise to develop new derivatives products potentially including cash-settled index options tied to the FTSE Bitcoin Index and FTSE Ethereum Index.

Cboe Announces Expanded Collaboration with FTSE Russell for Digital Asset Derivatives

Cboe Europe Derivatives achieved significant growth in 2024 with record volumes across its pan-European derivatives platform, demonstrating continued expansion of Cboe's international footprint and product offerings in European markets.

Cboe Europe Derivatives 2024 Recap Shows Strong Growth

Cboe announced it began publishing intraday values for the new Cboe 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Volatility Basis Point Index on August 12, 2024, expanding its suite of volatility indices beyond equities into fixed income markets.

Cboe Launches 20+ Year Treasury Bond Volatility Index

Hard to believe, but: Cboe Global, $CBOE, is in talks with retail brokerages to relaunch “all-or-nothing” options contracts for individual investors that would look to compete with prediction markets, per WSJ

Cboe Global Markets Announces Date of First-Quarter 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call

Cboe Global Markets Reports Trading Volume for February 2026

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Cboe Global Markets Reports Results for Fourth Quarter 2025 and Full Year

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The Chicago Board Options Exchange began trading standardized stock options on April 26, 1973, from a converted smoking lounge with 911 contracts on 16 stocks traded the first day. This pioneering moment created the modern exchange-traded options industry.

CBOE Founded and Begins Trading

On January 19, 1993, CBOE introduced the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), created by Vanderbilt professor Robert E. Whaley to measure 30-day implied volatility of S&P 100 options. VIX would become Wall Street's premier "fear gauge" and market sentiment indicator.

VIX Volatility Index Introduced

CBOE changed the underlying benchmark for the VIX from the S&P 100 to the broader S&P 500 index, enhancing its relevance as a measure of broad market volatility expectations.

VIX Methodology Updated to S&P 500

CBOE began trading VIX futures in early 2004, providing market participants with tools to directly trade and hedge volatility, opening new dimensions in risk management and trading strategies.

VIX Futures Trading Launched

CBOE launched VIX options in 2006, further expanding the suite of volatility trading products and enabling more sophisticated strategies for managing market uncertainty and portfolio risk.

VIX Options Introduced

Following demutualization, CBOE Holdings completed its initial public offering on June 18, 2010, and began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange, transitioning from member ownership to a publicly-traded company.

CBOE Holdings Initial Public Offering

CBOE completed its $3.2 billion acquisition of BATS Global Markets on February 28, 2017. BATS was the second-largest U.S. stock exchange by shares traded and brought advanced trading technology and significant equity market infrastructure.

BATS Global Markets Acquisition Completed

On October 16, 2017, the company changed its legal name from CBOE Holdings, Inc. to Cboe Global Markets, Inc., reflecting its evolution into a global multi-asset class exchange operator following the BATS acquisition.

Rebranding to Cboe Global Markets

Cboe Futures Exchange became the first of Cboe's exchange subsidiaries to migrate onto the BATS technology platform in February 2018, beginning the technological integration following the acquisition.

Cboe Futures Exchange Migrates to BATS Technology

Cboe delisted its shares from NASDAQ and began trading exclusively on its own Cboe BZX Exchange, demonstrating confidence in its market infrastructure and joining elite exchanges that list their own shares.

Self-Listing on Cboe Exchange

Fredric J. Tomczyk was appointed CEO in September 2023, succeeding Edward T. Tilly. William M. Farrow III was simultaneously named non-executive Chairman of the Board, establishing new executive leadership.

Leadership Transition to Fredric Tomczyk

Cboe announced a strategic realignment of its digital asset business in April 2024, winding down the Cboe Digital Spot Market to focus on digital asset derivatives and clearing, leveraging core competencies in derivatives infrastructure.

Digital Asset Business Realignment

On August 12, 2024, Cboe began publishing intraday values for the new Cboe 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF Volatility Basis Point Index, expanding its suite of volatility measurement tools to fixed income markets.

20+ Year Treasury Bond Volatility Index Launch

On October 14, 2024, Cboe began trading Options on VIX Futures, providing market participants with additional tools to express views on volatility of volatility and implement sophisticated hedging strategies.

Options on VIX Futures Launched

Cboe achieved record full-year 2024 net revenue of $2.1 billion (up 8% YoY) and record adjusted diluted EPS of $8.61 (up 10% YoY), with all three business segments contributing to growth and fifth consecutive year of record options volumes.

Record Annual Financial Results

Craig Donohue was named CEO of Cboe Global Markets effective May 7, 2025, succeeding Fredric Tomczyk who transitioned to an advisory role and remained on the board of directors.

Craig Donohue Named CEO

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