Financial derivatives trading in CME group

This paper gives an overview of the current situation and trends in the CME Group as a leader in the global market of financial derivatives. Special emphasis is placed on CME Globex - the electronic trading platform within the CME Group. The methodology used in this paper is typical for social sciences: a comparative analysis, historical analysis, and analysis of data, which enabled the use of various materials from books, scholarly journals, electronic databases and official documents and reports. The first part of this paper gives an overview of financial derivatives in general. The remaining part of the paper describes CME Group - its genesis, types of trading, permitted types of trading orders, market instruments and trading volume.