Independent index administrator FutureSports has entered into an exclusive agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL) to receive official, real-time statistics. FutureSports will use the play-by-play data to create rules-based benchmark indexes known as CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), tailored to measure the cumulative performance of NHL teams and individual players. Subject to regulatory approval, CME Group plans to list monthly and quarterly cash-settled futures contracts based on these benchmarks in time for the 2026–2027 season.
The transparent, rules-based indexes will update continuously throughout games, establishing a new uncorrelated asset class for hedging and investment. Expected market participants include asset managers, pension funds, professional trading firms, and retail investors, alongside commercial entities seeking risk-management tools, such as apparel manufacturers, sponsors, endorsers, third-party vendors, and insurers.
To maintain market confidence, the indexes will be administered independently by FutureSports. While the NHL supplies the underlying statistical data and maintains monitoring controls alongside regulatory stakeholders to safeguard integrity, it will hold no involvement in the governance, calculation, or determination of the financial indexes.
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