CME Group Named a Leading Technology Innovator for Fifth Consecutive Year

by Chicago Mercantile Exchange 16 Sep 15:23

CHICAGO, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CME Group, the world’s largest
and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that it has been named
to the InformationWeek 500, the annual ranking of the most innovative users of
business technology in the nation. The 2008 InformationWeek 500 companies
were revealed on September 15, at a gala awards ceremony held at the St.
Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California. This is the fifth consecutive
year the exchange has been named to this prestigious list of technology
innovators.

“Technology plays a crucial role in our business with electronic trading
representing more than 80 percent of our volume,” said CME Group Chief
Operating Officer Bryan Durkin. “CME Globex®, the industry leading
electronic trading platform, and our clearing operations were key factors in
our successful merger with CBOT in 2007 and our recent acquisition of NYMEX.
The marriage of our global benchmark products with our Globex technology has
enabled us to increase our business and to meet the growing needs of our
expanding customer base.”

“CME’s commitment to technology and innovation remains a top priority,” said
CME Group Chief Information Officer Kevin Kometer. “This award is a direct
reflection of CME Groups employees’ commitment and dedication to offering
reliable and diverse technologies. We will continue to look for ways to build
upon our success as we look at growing our business through technology in
areas such as emerging markets and over the counter business.”

The CME Globex electronic trading platform offers vast capabilities to
facilitate the most complex and demanding trading. Our deep and liquid
electronic marketplace enables customers to choose from the widest range of
benchmark products across all asset classes, futures and options based on
interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and
real estate. Through August 2008, 82 percent of all contracts traded at CME
Group have been executed via electronic trading and average daily volume for
the year is 9.8 million contracts, an increase of 15 percent over this time
last year. On average, trades on CME Globex are executed in less than 11
milliseconds.

InformationWeek has identified and honored the nation’s most innovative users
of information technology with its annual listing, now in its 20th year, and
has tracked the technology, strategies, investments and administrative
practices of America’s best-known companies. The list is unique among
corporate rankings because it spotlights the power of innovation in
information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT
spenders.

“For 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users
of business technology,” said InformationWeek Editor-in-Chief Rob Preston.
“Year after year, InformationWeek 500 companies harness technology to improve
efficiency, boost productivity, drive revenue, and establish a competitive
advantage. We applaud this year’s winners, and the CIOs and other executives
whose ingenuity and risk taking are at the center of business technology
innovation.”

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at
http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/.

About CME Group

CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com/) is the world’s largest and most diverse
derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME
Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an
international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on
the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago
and New York. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products
available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and
real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol “CME.”

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SOURCE: CME Group

CONTACT: media, Allan Schoenberg, +1-312-930-8189, or Michael Shore,
+1-312-930-2363, or news@cmegroup.com, or investors, John Peschier,
+1-312-930-8491, all of CME Group

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