CME futures outage caused FX spot pricing problems

- By Joe Parsons, Lukas Becker and Emma Siponmaa
- 02 Dec 2025

The absence of pricing information from CME’s futures contracts during the outage on November 28 caused major problems for some foreign exchange spot market-makers, forcing at least one non-bank to pull their prices altogether.

Non-deliverable forwards market-makers were also affected by the absence of interest rate futures data from CME.

A cooling problem in the CyrusOne data centre halted all CME Group markets from 2:40am UK time on November 28. CME says government bond platform Brokertec EU

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