Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.671 billion contracts in the month of May, up 15.7% from the previous month and up 19.8% from May 2017. On a year-to-date basis, volume in the first five months of the year was 12.345 billion contracts, up 22% from the first five months of 2017. Total open interest at the end of May was 912.1 million contracts, up 3% from a year ago.
The report includes statistics from three exchanges recently added to the FIA database: the International Energy Exchange, a commodity exchange in China, LedgerX, a cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., and Asia Pacific Exchange, a derivatives exchange in Singapore. The report also includes statistics for the bitcoin futures contracts that began trading on the Cboe Futures Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last December.
| Futures | Options | Total | M/M | Y/Y | |
| Asia-Pacific | 581,553,178 | 375,937,279 | 957,490,457 | 16.8% | 24.2% |
| North America | 401,412,276 | 490,809,442 | 892,221,718 | 11.8% | 13.9% |
| Europe | 374,103,520 | 105,517,502 | 479,621,022 | 6.3% | 10.4% |
| Latin America | 179,896,548 | 118,470,607 | 298,367,155 | 47.5% | 67.7% |
| Other | 34,668,315 | 8,311,396 | 42,979,711 | 21.0% | -31.5% |
| Grand Total | 1,571,633,837 | 1,099,046,226 | 2,670,680,063 | 15.7% | 19.8% |
| M/M | 16.8% | 14.3% | 15.7% | ||
| Y/Y | 20.7% | 18.5% | 19.8% |
