Total trading volume in the region rose 37.5% to 8.89 billion contracts.Д®urope, which now ranks fourth in terms of trading volume, had 5.45 billion contracts traded in 2021, down 156.7 million or 2.8% from the previous year.Д®urope and North America continue to account for the majority of open interest. Latin America continued its rapid growth. North America, the second largest region in terms of trading volume, had 15.38 billion contracts traded in 2020, up 2.53 billion or 19.7% from the previous year. Total volume in that region reached 30.55 billion contracts, up 10.40 billion or 51.6% from the previous year. The statistics are based on the number of contracts traded and/or cleared on these exchanges and are adjusted to avoid double counting.ДЇIA will hold a webinar on 26 January to provide a more detailed look at global trends in futures and options trading.Д®xchanges in the Asia-Pacific region had the largest increase in trading in 2021. As in past years, rapid growth in the equity index and single stock category accounted for most of the increase in trading.ДЇIA's statistics on volume and open interest are collected from 85 exchanges operated by 54 companies in 33 countries. This is the fourth year in a row that global exchange-traded derivatives markets set a record above the prior year in terms of total trading activity. At year-end, open interest stood at 1.076 billion contracts, up 2.6% from 1.048 billion contracts at year-end 2020. Open interest, which measures the number of outstanding contracts at a point in time, was almost unchanged.

Options trading jumped 56.6% to 33.31 billion contracts. The total volume of trading reached 62.58 billion contracts in 2021, up 33.7% from the previous year.В Futures trading rose 14.6% to 29.28 billion contracts. Washington, DC - FIA today released statistics on the number of futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide in 2021, which marked theВ fourth consecutive year of record-setting trading activity.