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CME Group
American financial derivatives company

CME Group Inc., headquartered in Chicago, is the world's largest operator of financial derivatives exchanges, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, and the New York Mercantile Exchange. It also owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices. CME Group’s platforms facilitate trading in agricultural products, currencies, energy, metals, futures contracts, options, stock indexes, and cryptocurrencies futures. Besides Chicago, it has offices across the U.S. and internationally in cities like London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.

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History

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), was founded in 1898 as a nonprofit corporation.8 In 1919, it established its clearing house.9 In 2000, CME demutualized (became a joint stock company).10 In 2002, CME Group, the parent company of CME, became a public company via an initial public offering.11

On July 12, 2007, CME Group completed a merger with the CME's historical rival, the holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade, founded in 1848, in an $8 billion deal that created the world's largest financial market.121314 The company then launched as CME Group Inc., a CME/Chicago Board of Trade Company.1516

In 2012, Phupinder Gill, then CME Group's president and COO, became the company's CEO.

In November 2016, Gill retired from his role and Terrence A. Duffy, then executive chairman and president of the company, took on an expanded role as its CEO.17

In 2021, the firm struck a partnership with Google to build its cloud strategy, which saw the tech giant investing $1 billion in CME Group.18

In 2022, CME Group futures and options reached a record average daily volume of 23.3 million contracts.19

Mergers and acquisitions

On August 22, 2008, CME Group acquired New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), owner of both the NYMEX exchange and the Commodity Exchange (COMEX), for $8.9 billion in cash and CME Group stock.2021222324

On February 10, 2010, CME Group agreed to purchase 90% of Dow Jones & Company's financial-indexes business, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.2526 CME Group and Dow Jones & Company subsequently contributed the Dow Jones Indexes to the formation of S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture, with CME Group receiving a 24.4% ownership interest and Dow Jones & Company receiving a 2.6% ownership interest in the joint venture.2728 In April 2013, CME Group purchased the remaining Dow Jones & Company interest for $80.0 million, increasing CME Group's interest in S&P Dow Jones Indices from 24.4% to 27.0%.29

On December 3, 2012, CME Group acquired the Kansas City Board of Trade, the dominant venue for the sale of hard red winter wheat, for $126 million in cash.3031

On March 15, 2016, the firm announced the sale of its suburban Chicago data center in Aurora, IL to CyrusOne for $130 million, in a leaseback transaction.32

On November 2, 2018, CME Group acquired the London-based NEX Group for $5.5 billion.3334

Operations

CME Group operates a global derivatives marketplace that allows institutions and individuals to trade futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, metals, and agricultural commodities.353637 The company runs an electronic trading platform, CME Globex, which allows customers in approximately 150 countries to trade futures and options contracts.383940

The company also operates two cash market businesses: BrokerTec, which facilitates dealer-to-dealer trading for fixed-income markets,4142 and EBS, which provides foreign exchange spot trading.43

In addition, CME Group operates CME Clearing, which serves as a counterparty to every cleared transaction, including both listed and OTC derivatives, within the company's marketplace. CME Group is a member of CCP Global, a trade group of central counterparty clearinghouses from around the globe.4445

Board governance

CME Group's history of member-owned exchanges and mergers and acquisition of rivals have led to an unconventionally large board size for a publicly traded company. In 2018, six of its 20 sitting board directors were elected by holders of Class B shares, representing owners of exchange seats, as opposed to that of publicly traded Class A shares. In comparison, the average company in the S&P 500 had no more than 11 board directors.46

On August 23, 2018, the company offered holders of Class B shares about $10 million to relinquish control of their six board seats.47 The move was subsequently rejected.

Notable events

2010 flash crash

CME Group was at the center of the 2010 flash crash, which took place on May 6, 2010. According to a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) 2014 report, a significant cause of the event was the use of spoofing algorithms by Navinder Singh Sarao, a British financial trader; just prior to the flash crash, he placed orders for thousands of E-mini S&P 500 stock index futures contracts — which traded on CME Group's Globex platform — and later replaced or modified those orders at least 19,000 times before they were cancelled.4849 The event led to the modern day implementation of coordinated cross-market circuit breakers, as the CME's Globex platform halted trading in an automated response to the activity, while the New York Stock Exchange did not.5051

Awards and honors

See also

References

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