Cboe Labs

Trusted Solutionsfrom Market Innovators

Cboe Labs is a cutting-edge innovation hub that brings together financial market professionals and academic experts to create solutions for real-world problems. Whether you have a fully-formed solution or simply a problem in need of a fix, Cboe Labs is dedicated to helping bring your vision to life, while protecting your intellectual property every step of the way.

Ideas Realized, Problems Solved

Protect your idea, watch it come alive.

Unlike other corporate labs focused on internal initiatives, Cboe Labs is a resource for everyone. Our structured vetting process ensures your IP remains protected while gaining access to Cboe's market ecosystem. This collaborative approach connects you directly to market experts, market data, and industry participants—maximizing your innovation's market impact and commercial potential.

Access Our Innovation Team

Cboe Labs operates outside of sales quotas and competing business priorities, focusing exclusively on fostering innovation. This means we deliver creative solutions that drive real value.

Leverage the breadth of Cboe.

Cboe's legacy as a market innovator gives Cboe Labs access to one of the largest, most comprehensive global derivatives and securities networks. This deep market connectivity ensures your idea has the resources to succeed in today's complex financial landscape.

Solving for You

Working with the Industry to Make Volatility Tradable

Cboe worked with academic Robert Whaley, a professor and expert in derivative valuation and risk management, to develop the VIX Index®, the first benchmark index to measure the market's expectation of future volatility.

Join Our Legacy of Firsts

Cboe’s innovation legacy is backed by its many "firsts" in the market, such as the first marketplace for trading listed options and the introduction of options on broad-based stock indices, LEAPS® options, FLEX® options, Weekly options, and volatility as an asset class.

Sourcing Ideas from Cboe RMC

Cboe leverages its risk management conferences to engage with customers and academics in the trading community, fostering open discussions that drive innovation. These gatherings provide a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and strategies, as well as uncover problems that need solutions.

How Our Process Works

Step 1

Ideation and Enhancements

We source ideas from our internal teams, customers, academics and industry partners, such as S&P Dow Jones Indices, MSCI and FTSE Russell.

Step 2

Analysis

Our thorough vetting process analyzes ideas to determine if there is high-level customer demand, what the regulatory lift may be and the opportunity size.

Step 3

Development

Always refining as we go, we make sure we’re creating products and services that meet customer demand. We take in feedback and ensure we have partner buy-in.

Step 4

Build and Launch

We leverage all teams at Cboe to bring products to market, ensuring they are supported by our breadth of expertise and services.

Step 5

Evaluation and Feedback

We measure performance and generate feedback for the complete lifespan of a product: from pre to post launch.

Dialogue-Driven Solutions from Market Innovators

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