CME Group announced on March 13 that it will expand its suite of event contracts to include bitcoin futures, pending regulatory review. Tim McCourt, Global Head of Equities and FX Products at CME Group, said, “The new event contracts on Bitcoin futures provide investors with a highly transparent and less complicated way to gain access to the cryptocurrency market, and these contracts track our highly liquid The daily price action of the benchmark Bitcoin futures provides investors with an innovative, low-cost way to trade their views on rising or falling Bitcoin prices.”