CHICAGO, Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that it has extended its employment agreement with
Executive Chairman and President Terry
Duffy through December 31,
2020. In addition, the company announced that it has extended
its employment agreement with CEO Phupinder
Gill through December 31,
2019.
Duffy, 57, a more than 30-year veteran of the futures industry,
has served as Executive Chairman and President of CME Group since
2012, Executive Chairman since 2006 and Chairman since 2002.
Gill, 55, who has been with the company since 1988, has served as
CEO since 2012.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers
together through its CME Globex® electronic trading
platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also
operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central
counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These
products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit
risk.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME,
Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the
Board of Trade of the City of
Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and
ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile
Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange,
Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. Further information about CME Group (NASDAQ:
CME) and its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.
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