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11/21/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/21/2024 08:20

MIAX Receives Editors Choice Award for Outstanding Futures and Options Trading Venue at The Trades Leaders in Trading Awards 2024

November 21, 2024

MIAX Receives Editors Choice Award for Outstanding Futures and Options Trading Venue at The Trades Leaders in Trading Awards 2024

MIAMI AND PRINCETON, N.J. - November 21, 2024 - Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), a technology-driven leader in building and operating regulated financial markets across multiple asset classes, today announced that its MIAX® exchange received the Editors' Choice Award for "Outstanding Futures and Options Trading Venue" at The Trade's Leaders in Trading Awards 2024.

"We are honored MIAX has been recognized as the Outstanding Futures and Options Trading Venue among a distinguished group of nominees," said Thomas P. Gallagher, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MIH. "This recognition is a testament to the talent and dedication of our most important asset, our people. We remain committed to delivering state-of-the-art trading technology to our customers across options, futures and other asset segments in 2025 and beyond."

"2024 has been a pivotal year for MIAX, with the launch of MIAX SapphireTM, our fourth U.S. options exchange, and continued development of MIAX FuturesTM Onyx, our new matching engine for MIAX Futures Exchange," said Douglas M. Schafer, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MIH. "Starting with the launch of our first exchange in 2012, our MIAX exchanges have collectively delivered 99.9998% operational uptime to-date, which represents a validation of our rigorous development process and relentless focus on providing our clients trading platforms designed to support the high performance quoting demands of the U.S. options industry."

The Leaders in Trading Awards for North America acknowledges the biggest achievers in The Trade's Algorithmic Trading, Execution Management and Outsourced Trading surveys, as well as honoring top desks and traders in its coveted Buy-Side Awards and other market players in the Editors' Choice categories.

About MIAX
MIAX's parent holding company, Miami International Holdings, Inc., owns Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), MIAX Sapphire LLC (MIAX SapphireTM), MIAX Futures Exchange, LLC (MIAX FuturesTM), MIAX Derivatives Exchange (MIAXdxTM), The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) and Dorman Trading, LLC (Dorman Trading).

MIAX, MIAX Pearl, MIAX Emerald and MIAX Sapphire are national securities exchanges registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission that are enabled by MIAX's in-house built, proprietary technology. MIAX offers trading of options on all four exchanges as well as cash equities through MIAX Pearl Equities™. The MIAX trading platform was built to meet the high-performance quoting demands of the U.S. options trading industry and is differentiated by throughput, latency, reliability and wire-order determinism.

MIAX Futures is a registered exchange with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and offers trading in a variety of products including Hard Red Spring Wheat Futures. MIAX Futures is a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) under the CFTC, providing DCM and DCO services in an array of asset classes.

MIAXdx is a CFTC regulated exchange and clearinghouse and is registered as a Designated Contract Market (DCM), Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), and Swap Execution Facility (SEF) with the CFTC.

BSX is a fully electronic, vertically integrated international securities market headquartered in Bermuda and organized in 1971. BSX specializes in the listing and trading of capital market instruments such as equities, debt issues, funds, hedge funds, derivative warrants, and insurance linked securities.

Dorman Trading is a full-service Futures Commission Merchant registered with the CFTC.

MIAX's executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, N.J., with additional U.S. offices located in Chicago, IL and Miami, FL. MIAX Futures offices are located in Minneapolis, MN. MIAXdx offices are located in Princeton, N.J. BSX offices are located in Hamilton, Bermuda. Dorman Trading offices are located in Chicago, IL.

To learn more about MIAX visit www.miaxglobal.com.

To learn more about MIAX Futures visit www.miaxglobal.com/miax-futures.

To learn more about MIAXdx visit www.miaxdx.com.

To learn more about BSX visit www.bsx.com.

To learn more about Dorman Trading visit www.dormantrading.com.

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