CME Group Inc.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
20 S Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60606-7431, United States
(866)716-7274, (312)930-1000, http://www.cmegroup.com

Primary SIC: Security And Commodity Exchanges, Primary NAICS: Securities and Commodity Exchanges
Description: CME Group Inc. was founded in 1898 as a not-for-profit corporation. On July 12, 2007, CBOT Holdings Inc. merged with and into CME Holdings, which was renamed CME Group Inc. The company was the first U.S. financial exchange to become publicly traded in December 2002. CME Group offer futures and options on futures based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. The company's customer base includes professional traders, financial institutions, institutional and individual investors, major corporations, manufacturers, producers and governments. CME Group separates member customers into four segments based on trading activity: bank proprietary trading; large hedge funds; buy-side proprietary trading firms, and other, which includes thousands of smaller member firms and individual traders. There's also a fifth segment of customers comprised of non-member customers who pay higher fees than the member category. CME Group also operates our own clearing house: CME Clearing. The company's primary trade execution facilities consist of the CME Globex electronic trading platform and the open outcry trading floors in Chicago and New York City. More

Finance: Marketplace for commodities, interest rates, stock index, foreign exchange futures.