Cboe Europe has stopped disseminating its European equity indices through the Multicast PITCH market-data feeds after the close of business on Friday, 30 October. Its 19 October reminder directs continuing subscribers to the Cboe Global Index Feed, or CGIF, instead. That is a distribution-path change for named index data; the notice does not say that the BXE, CXE or DXE equity markets have ceased trading, or that conventional equity-market quotes have been withdrawn from all feeds.[1]
The distinction affects firms that consume several data products through a single interface. An index level may feed execution algorithms, benchmark overlays, dashboards or post-trade analytics while instrument-level quotes arrive from a different component. If a subscriber loses its former index packets and falls back to a stale cached level, a chart can appear normal even though its timestamp is wrong. A clean migration should therefore test last-good-value age rather than merely the availability of a symbol.[1]
The actual discontinued service
Cboe Europe index data cutover
| Item | Status and scope |
|---|---|
| Old route | Cboe Europe Equity Indices via Multicast PITCH |
| Last distribution | After close, Friday 30 October 2026 |
| Replacement | Cboe Global Index Feed (CGIF) |
| Ordinary European equity trading | Not described as discontinued in the notice |
| Index-data contracting entity | Separate Global Data Agreement change on 1 January 2027 |
Cboe first gave a September cessation date in an earlier notice, then issued the October reminder using 30 October as the effective cutover. Teams relying on an old implementation plan should use the updated notice as their date reference. They should reconcile symbology and licensing, prove that backups recover the correct new feed, and check whether historical indices have different redistribution or display entitlements.[1]
A distinct contractual change is scheduled for January 2027. Cboe’s 1 October Global Data Agreement notice says the contracting entity for Cboe Global Indices Feed products, including European indices, becomes Cboe Data Services LLC. Neither the contract amendment nor the October technical cutover alone establishes what any individual data recipient will pay. A vendor may have separate carriage and downstream-use terms.[2]
No automatic conclusion of trading losses
A feed shutdown creates a verifiable readiness question, not evidence that a particular subscriber failed. Any incident report would need consumer-level packets, entitlement records, timestamps and stale-value alerts. The immediate operational outcome is the move of the relevant European index series from PITCH to CGIF; firms still using the former route should confirm they are displaying a current, correctly licensed index source.[1][2]
Sources & further reading
- Market data notices: October 19 reminder on index feed discontinuation Cboe Europe · 19 Oct 2026 · Accessed 31 Oct 2026
- Notice regarding Global Data Agreement changes for European index products, effective 1 January 2027 Cboe Europe · 1 Oct 2026 · Accessed 31 Oct 2026