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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-012610"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BGC"
cik: "0001094831"
company_name: "BGC Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T19:47:19.404082+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BGC Group's FMX Futures Exchange receives CFTC approval for U.S. Treasury and SOFR futures

## Summary
- CFTC approved FMX Futures Exchange on January 22, 2024, to operate an exchange for UST and SOFR futures.
- CEO Howard Lutnick says FMX will compete with CME's U.S. interest rate complex, the most valuable futures market.
- Fenics UST cash Treasury platform reached 25% market share in Q3 2023, up from 18% a year earlier.
- FMX has a clearing agreement with LCH SwapClear for cross-margin efficiencies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-012610
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BGC
- cik: 0001094831
- company_name: BGC Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094831/000119312524012610/0001193125-24-012610-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094831/000119312524012610/d722241d8k.htm

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