CME Group partners with FutureSports to introduce world’s first futures on sports indexesContracts based on FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI) to offer new hedging vehicles for sports ecosystem, trading opportunities for institutions and individualsCHICAGO, July 29, 2026 – CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, and FutureSports, the new independent index administrator transforming professional and college sports statistics into rules-based, benchmark financial indexes, today announced a long-term partnership through which CME Group will list futures and options on FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI). “CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk, and that’s exactly what we’re bringing to the business of sports leagues,” said CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. Bob Fitzimmons, EVP at Wedbush Securities, said: “The FutureSports indexes take the insular world of the business of global sports and open it up to the global capital markets. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. Further, there are risks associated with investing in fixed income asset classes that include, but are not limited to, market risk, interest rate risk, default risk, event risk, credit risk, and government security risk.