CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.

CME Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. operates the world's leading derivatives marketplace, running exchange infrastructure, market data, and trading tools across futures, options, cash, and OTC markets. Its technical work spans trading and exchange infrastructure, electronic trading systems, risk management systems, market data and analytics, and financial technology platforms. The exchanges it operates - CME, CBOT, NYMEX, and COMEX - offer derivatives across interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agriculture, and metals, with NYMEX emphasising energy markets and COMEX metals. Exchange operations run nearly around the clock, six days a week.

The company serves a client base ranging from farmers to pension and retirement funds to sophisticated institutions, and its systems support the widest range of products across the asset classes it covers. Founded in 1898 with trading floor roots in Chicago, it has evolved into a technology-driven operation with a global presence. Over 125 years of operation underpin the market infrastructure it maintains.

CME describes a purpose-driven culture - 'our work matters' - built around teams of problem solvers, engineers, and market experts, and oriented towards fairness, transparency, and efficiency in markets. Market data and tools form part of its product set alongside the exchanges themselves, supporting clients in navigating uncertainty.