CME Group

CME Group Inc.
FormerlyChicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustryFinancial Services
FoundedOldest exchange 1848 (1848);
Merger 2007 (2007)
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois, United States
Key people
Terrence A. Duffy
(chairman & CEO)
Lynne Fitzpatrick
(CFO)[1]
Revenue US$6.13 billion (2024)
US$3.93 billion (2024)
US$3.48 billion (2024)
Total assets US$137.4 billion (2024)
Total equity US$26.49 billion (2024)
Number of employees
3,760 (2024)
Subsidiaries
Websitecmegroup.com
Footnotes / references
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CME Group Inc. (formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.) is an American financial services company based in Chicago, Illinois. It operates financial derivatives exchanges, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX and COMEX exchange), and the Commodity Exchange. The company owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices.[2][3][4][5] It is the world's largest operator of financial derivatives exchanges. Its exchanges are platforms for trading in agricultural products, currencies, energy, interest rates, metals, futures contracts, options, stock indexes, and cryptocurrencies futures.

Headquartered in Chicago,[6][7] the company maintains offices in New York, Houston, and Washington D.C., in the United States, as well as abroad in Bangalore, Beijing, Belfast, Calgary, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.[8]

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  3. ^ Stafford, Phillip (May 9, 2019). "CME gains boost with new 'micro' futures contracts". The Financial Times.
  4. ^ "CME looks to the futures in Europe". Futures & Options World. June 3, 2014.
  5. ^ "CME Group: The futures of capitalism". The Economist. May 11, 2013.
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  8. ^ "Advancing A Sustainable Future: 2021 Environmental, Social & Governance Report" (PDF). CME Group. 2021. p. 5. Retrieved September 11, 2022.