Open Markets is featuring a series of video interviews with CME Group product heads as they recall the events that shaped 2011, and look ahead to 2012.
Today, Roger Rutherford, managing director of FX products, provides a look at CME Group’s FX business, which grew its volume by 4% in 2011. The real story of the [...]
Following the recent MF Global failure, our industry has been focused on strengthening protections for customer funds held at the firm level in the future.
As a first step towards that goal, we announced today the establishment of the $100 million Family Farmer and Rancher Protection Fund. Under the fund, which we expect to be in place [...]
The New York Times recently published an article on its Dealbook site, “MF Global Inquiry Turns to its Primary Regulator,” that misled readers to believe the CFTC’s investigation of the MF Global failure was turning its focus to CME Group. In fact, based on our conversations with the CFTC, its investigation has not changed and [...]
The Financial Times featured a piece this week from CME Group Chairman Emeritus Leo Melamed in which he defends high frequency trading as a national asset worth protecting from regulators.
In the piece, Leo describes his experience as a trader to illustrate something we’ve mentioned here before: short-term speculators have always had a role in commodity markets, [...]
Fox News Contributor and PFGBest.com vice president Phil Flynn sat down with us to discuss macroeconomic events affecting the oil market this year. Flynn discusses WTI vs. Brent, and which he believes will be the more reliable benchmark going forward.
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