CBOE Holdings Plans Listing of Roku (ROKU) Options

CHICAGO, Oct. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE| NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced it plans to list options on Roku, Inc. (ROKU), the streaming video device maker, on Friday, October 6, once the underlying stock has been certified as meeting all of CBOE Holdings' applicable exchanges' listing criteria.

The company plans to list Roku options on its four options exchanges -- Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), Bats' BZX Options and Bats' EDGX Options. 

Underlying shares of common stock of Roku, Inc. began trading on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ) on Thursday, September 28, after an initial public offering on Wednesday, September 27, in which Roku shares were priced at $14 a share.

The expected Designated Primary Market Maker (DPM) for options on Roku at CBOE will be Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., and Susquehanna Investment Group is the expected Primary Market Maker (PMM) on the EDGX Options exchange.

About CBOE Holdings, Inc.

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (BATS: CBOE| NASDAQ: CBOE), owner of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Bats exchanges, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and other subsidiaries, is one of the world's largest exchange holding companies and a leader in providing global investors cutting-edge trading and investment solutions. 

The company offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded products (ETPs), and multi-asset volatility and global foreign exchange (FX) products.  CBOE Holdings' 14 trading venues include the largest options exchange in the U.S. and the largest stock exchange in Europe, and the company is the second-largest stock exchange operator in the U.S. and a leading market globally for ETF trading.  

CBOE Holdings is home to the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index), the world's barometer for equity market volatility; the CBOE Options Institute, the company's world-renowned education arm; CBOE Livevol, a leading provider of options technology, trading analytics and market data services; CBOE Vest, an asset management company specializing in target-outcome investment strategies; CBOE Risk Management Conferences (RMC), the premier financial industry forums on derivatives and volatility products; ETF.com, a leading provider of ETF news, data and analysis; and Hotspot, a leading platform for global FX trading.  

The company is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Kansas City, New York, London, San Francisco, Singapore and Ecuador.  For more information, visit www.cboe.com.

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