CME outages hit eight-year high in Q4
Operational failures totalling 8.5 hours most severe since 2017
CME Clearing recorded eight hours and 31 minutes of outages in the final quarter of 2025, the longest downtime in a three-month period since Q1 2017.
The central counterparty (CCP) reported seven outages totalling 16 hours and 50 minutes across 2025. Risk Quantum calculates that two of these – accounting for more than half the total downtime – occurred in Q4.
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