Company
Index provider that maintains and administers major market benchmarks, including the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Cboe renewed its exclusive S&P 500 options licence with S&P Dow Jones Indices to 2051, keeping a market that traded a record 970.6 million contracts in 2025. The tokenized-options language in the 25-year deal commits neither firm to a product, so the value anyone can count today sits in the existing contract.
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Kaiko's $110m was more than three-fifths of everything disclosed in crypto venture funding in the week to September 18. It came from the index provider whose crypto products already carry Kaiko's reference rates.
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The index house behind the S&P 500 led the investment that took Kaiko to $110 million in total funding. Subtract the three earlier rounds and the new money is about $28 million, going into a partner whose product had already shipped.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices removes Nike from the S&P 100 on the 21st after 18 years, a market-cap ranking catching up with a global footwear share that fell three points and a China business down from nearly 20% of revenue to about 13%.
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J.P. Morgan puts the required index-fund purchase at 16.7 million shares, close to three normal sessions of volume. The business and the buying are on separate tracks.
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