CME Group’s CME Direct trading platform is back online after a roughly four-hour outage on June 22 that disconnected users from one of the exchange’s primary interfaces for trading futures, options, and block trades.
The disruption started around 1:00 p.m. CT, with CME’s Global Command Center issuing a formal alert at 1:07 p.m. By 5:05 p.m. CT, the company confirmed all connection issues had been resolved.
What happened and what stayed running
CME Group attributed the outage to a third-party network issue.
CME Globex, the exchange’s core electronic trading engine, remained fully operational throughout the incident. That distinction matters because Globex is where the actual order matching and trade execution happens.
