São Paulo, Brazil
Abbreviation
BMF
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Region
Americas
Group
B3
Product Types
Agricultural, Biofuels, Energy, Financial Derivatives
The Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) was one of the world's largest derivatives exchanges, founded in São Paulo in 1983. In 2008, BM&F merged with the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) to form BM&FBOVESPA. In 2017, it merged again with CETIP to create B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão) — now Latin America's largest financial exchange group by market capitalisation. B3 continues to operate commodity derivatives including sugar, arabica coffee, live cattle, ethanol, and gold contracts.
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The U.S. Futures Exchange (USFE) was a Chicago-based electronic futures exchange founded in 2004 by a consortium including Goldman Sachs, Man Financial, and others, with the goal of introducing competition into the US Treasury and energy futures markets dominated by the CME and CBOT. Despite significant backing and low-cost trading incentives, USFE failed to attract sufficient liquidity from established market participants and closed operations in December 2007 after roughly three years of trading.