CMC Markets Expands Its Offering with the Addition of Carbon Emission Trading

CMC Markets Plc, a leading global provider of online trading and institutional platform technology solutions, announces that it has extended the range of assets with the addition of Carbon Emission trading.

CMC Markets continues to add to its tradable universe with a total of 12,000 FX pairs, indices, treasuries, commodities, single stocks, cryptos and ETFs now on offer.

The newly added instrument is far from new— the idea of Carbon trading is said to date back to the 1980s and was pivotal in seeing lead removed from petrol—but the popularity of the asset has been propelled by the recent COP-26 summit in Scotland.

This underlined the action major governments around the world would take to ensure companies fully accounted for and offset their global carbon emissions. Given it looks as if there will be a significant lag in corporates getting to net zero emissions and prices have already trebled over the last 12 months, expectations are that activity in the market will remain brisk.

About CMC Markets

CMC Markets Plc ("CMC") was established in 1989 and is now listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company is one of the world's leading online financial trading businesses serving retail and institutional clients through regulated offices and branches in 12 countries, with a significant presence in the UK, Australia, Germany and Singapore.

CMC Markets offers an award-winning, online and mobile trading platform, enabling clients to trade over 11,000 financial instruments across shares, indices, foreign currencies, commodities and treasuries through contracts for difference ("CFDs") and financial spread bets (in the UK and Ireland only). Clients can also trade on the short-term price movements of financial markets through Countdowns and, in Australia, access stockbroking services. CMC Markets plc's shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (CMCX).