CME Group Launches New Benchmark to Track Overnight Funding Costs

- The U.S. Dollar RepoFunds Rate provides a one-day, risk-free rate based on centrally cleared U.S. repo trades transacted on BrokerTec  CHICAGO, May 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it has launched the U.S. dollar RepoFunds Rate (RFR USD) to provide a robust measure of overnight funding costs in U.S. repo markets. The new benchmark uses data from centrally cleared overnight U.S. repo trades executed on BrokerTec's dealer-to-dealer central limit order book (CLOB) platform, which saw average daily trading volumes of $412 billion in March.