Cboe Global Markets, Inc. CBOE

What this company does

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, and FX, across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed 1,661 individuals, of whom 591 were involved in technology operations and 205 in direct support of trading operations. Cboe's subsidiaries include an options exchange and an equities exchange operator in the U.S., Cboe Europe Equities, comprising the Cboe Europe and Cboe NL equities exchanges, Cboe Clear Europe, a pan-European equities and derivatives clearinghouse, BIDS Holdings, which provides block-trading services with Cboe market operators in the U.S., Europe and Canada, Cboe Australia, an operator of a regulated stock exchange in Australia, Cboe Clear U.S., an operator of a regulated clearinghouse, and Cboe Canada, a recognized Canadian securities exchange. Cboe reports on five business segments: Options, North American Equities, Europe and Asia Pacific, Futures, and Global FX. The Options segment includes options on market indices and on the stocks of individual corporations and exchange-traded products; the North American Equities segment includes U.S. and Canadian equities and exchange-traded product transaction services; the Europe and Asia Pacific segment includes pan-European derivatives and equities transaction services along with the equities services of Cboe Australia; the Futures segment includes transaction services provided by CFE, a fully electronic futures exchange; and the Global FX segment includes institutional foreign exchange trading services offered on the Cboe FX platform.

Written from the business description in Cboe Global Markets, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.