CBOE and Gemini Enter Into Exclusive Global License Agreement to Use Bitcoin Market Data.

-- Multi-year license will allow both firms to explore bitcoin derivatives opportunities

-- Pending regulatory review, the collaboration begins with plans to launch cash-settled bitcoin futures on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) in the fourth quarter of 2017 or early 2018

-- Agreement builds on the existing relationship between the CBOE family and Gemini

-- Trading volume of the bitcoin market has grown substantially in the last two years