CME GROUP

摘要

CME Group announced in May that it will collaborate with digital assets trading platform Crypto Facilities Ltd. to develop two new products planned to launch in the fourth quarter of 201 6: CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR), which will provide a final settlement price in U.S. dollars at 4 p.m. London time on each trading day, and CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index (RTI), which will allow users real-time access to bitcoin prices. The BRR will aggregate the trade flow of major bitcoin spot exchanges during a specific calculation window into a once-a-day, transparent reference rate of the U.S. dollar price of bitcoin. The RTI will be calculated by Crypto Facilities and will be based on global demand to buy and sell bitcoin aggregated into a consolidated order book. It will reflect the current market price of bitcoin in U.S. dollar terms and will be published approximately once every second. "These products are designed to allow bitcoin traders, companies and other users to rely on a credible reference rate price source" said Sandra Ro, executive director and digitization lead at CME Group.