Company

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a financial and commodity derivative exchange located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is best known for pioneering electronic trading through the CME Globex platform and for operating a broad slate of futures and options on futures across energy, metals, agriculture, and financial products, ultimately forming CME Group through a series of mergers and acquisitions. It remains highly relevant in current news due to its central role in price discovery, risk management for global market participants, and ongoing regulatory and market-structure developments affecting derivatives trading.