The title seems incorrect or misleading. The article talks about new disruptive micro-futures exchanges with low fees, which would be a threat to CME, if not for the need to use CME by traders arbitraging between CME and those new exchanges, just like they do arbitraging between hundreds of crypto exchanges. So the new startup futures exchanges may not be as bad for CME as it may seem.
cme needs more competition, their fees are outrageous. just look at their stock price, tells you all you need to know..
fees are reasonable for hedging not trading. 99.9999% of traders can't overcome cme fees (and commish) over the long term. prove me wrong.