News Education Resources     FX through CME ClearPort CME Group has recently announced a centralized clearing service for OTC FX trades through CME ClearPort. With the open-access, platform-agnostic structure of CME ClearPort, you have access to a post-execution clearing service that lets you control how, with whom, and on what terms you trade - while increasing your security, efficiency and confidence. Learn more View Opalesque Managed Futures Roundtable   Managed Futures Resource Center Commodities Energy Equities FX Interest Rates Metals Options View All

CME Group understands the importance of hedge funds in global financial markets as providers of liquidity and absorbers of risk. In a world of increasing volatility and uncertainty, hedge fund customers around the globe rely on CME Group as their partner and premier source for managing risk. CME Group is the largest and most diverse financial marketplace in the world – providing you with the credit risk reduction, liquidity, products, anonymity and speed you need to meet your business objectives and achieve your firm’s financial goals. We offer transparency and more importantly, the proven security of central counterparty clearing.

	Security and Confidence Effective risk management is a business imperative. With more than $8 billion in financial safeguards* to contain systematic risk, CME Clearing has over a century of risk management experience without a default. CME Group uses a central counterparty clearing model, where counterparty credit risk is shared among clearing members. This allows the central clearing house to guarantee the performance of every transaction- and the security of every clearing member’s customer. By being at the center of every on- and off-exchange transaction we clear, we can protect everyone’s interest and ensure the integrity of the market.
	Deep Liquidity In 2008, our diverse universe of global market participants, including asset managers, banks, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), hedge funds, active individual traders, multinational corporations, pension funds and proprietary trading firms, traded more than three billion contracts across asset classes on the CME Globex platform. This liquidity translates into your ability to get in and out of large positions quickly and efficiently.
	Anonymity and Transparency The open, fair and anonymous trading environment delivers equal access to markets and pricing information. The complete book of prices is visible to every customer and transaction costs and fees are fully disclosed. Further, this anonymity gives you the ability to execute large orders without broadcasting your strategy or move to the greater market.
	Superior Trading Technology The CME Globex electronic trading platform offers hedge funds all around the world access to the broadest array of futures and options products available on any exchange, virtually around the clock. The CME Globex platform is one of the most efficient and robust electronic platforms available today, capable of handling over six billion trades a month with an average 5- to 7-millisecond response time.

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