CBOE: Material agreement · Company disclosure

Item 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT. On September 28, 2026 (the “Effective Date”), Cboe Exchange, Inc. (“Cboe”), a subsidiary of Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (the “Company”), entered into a Master License Agreement (the “MLA”) and a certain Order No. 1-1 (“Order 1”) and Order No. 2-1 entered into thereunder (“Order 2” and, together with the MLA and Order 1, the “Agreement”) with S&P Opco, LLC and certain of its affiliates (collectively, “S&P”), pursuant to which the parties have agreed to extend, supersede, continue, expand and replace certain rights, licenses and obligations of each party presently provided for pursuant to the Restated License Agreement, dated November 1, 1994, between Cboe and S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC (as amended). The Agreement shall be effective from the Effective Date until December 31, 2051. In consideration for certain updated license fees (which shall take effect from January 1, 2027) to be calculated on a per-contract basis, the Agreement provides for the extension of the grant of (a) certain rights and licenses from S&P to Cboe and its affiliates to exclusively use the S&P 500 index and certain S&P marks set forth in Order 1 to (i) create, issue, list, trade, clear and settle standardized option contracts on Cboe’s markets in the United States and (ii) market and promote such standardized option contracts, and (b) certain cross-licenses and other rights from each party to the other party in and to certain intellectual property to derive, maintain, publish, calculate and disseminate certain Volatility Indices, BuyWrite Indices and Variance Indicators set forth in Order 2, including, in the case of Cboe, in connection with the creation, issuing, listing, trading, clearing and settling of standardized option contracts and other fi