Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.89 billion contracts in the month of July, up 1.1% from the previous month and up 36.2% from July 2018. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first seven months of the year was 19.45 billion contracts, up 14.2% from the first seven months of 2018. Total open interest at the end of July was 918.8 million contracts, up 6.3% from a year ago.
Note: LSE Group made several changes to its derivatives markets in 2019. LSE Derivatives Market was rebranded as CurveGlobal Markets in June to reflect the growth of its interest rate futures business. Its Russian equity derivatives business was closed in June and its Norwegian equity derivatives business will be closed in November.
Note: Changes to the data for historical contracts can be found in the tabs named Volume Revision and Correction, OI Revision and Correction, and Additions to Historical Data. B3 data for July 2019 has been corrected as July data in the previous report was a duplicate of June 2019 data. The overall totals have been revised accordingly.
| Futures | Options | Total | M/M | Y/Y | |
| Asia-Pacific | 710,252,257 | 606,914,932 | 1,317,167,189 | 14.0% | 47.5% |
| North America | 317,931,142 | 482,817,668 | 800,748,810 | -9.6% | 16.5% |
| Europe | 302,861,592 | 81,618,245 | 384,479,837 | -12.8% | 13.7% |
| Latin America | 253,066,899 | 91,330,185 | 344,397,084 | 3.1% | 99.8% |
| Other | 42,200,257 | 5,604,194 | 47,804,451 | -0.1% | 38.4% |
| Grand Total | 1,626,312,147 | 1,268,285,224 | 2,894,597,371 | 1.1% | 36.2% |
| M/M | -1.4% | 4.4% | 1.1% | ||
| Y/Y | 36.1% | 36.2% | 36.2% |
