CHICAGO, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that is has been selected by IDG's Computerworld
as a Best Place to Work in IT honoree for the seventh consecutive
year, one of 100 top organizations that challenge their IT
employees while providing great benefits and compensation.
This recognition is part of the bi-weekly IT publication's 18th
annual Best Places to Work in IT survey, which was published in the
June 20 issue and online at
www.computerworld.com. Once again, CME Group is the only
financial exchange company to receive this honor.
Since 1994, Computerworld's annual "Best Places to Work
in IT" feature has ranked the top 100 work environments for
technology professionals, based on a comprehensive questionnaire
regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits,
diversity, career development, training and retention.
"Receiving this award would not be possible without our talented
IT team and their commitment to providing cutting edge technology
across all areas of the business," said CME Group COO and Managing
Director, Products and Services Bryan Durkin. "Technology
plays a key role in advancing our global business development, and
we look forward to continuing to build on our capabilities as we
work to reach new markets and clients around the world. We
want to thank our employees for their strong focus on meeting our
clients' global trading and risk management needs."
"To be among the Best Places to Work in IT, it's not enough to
seek out and hire the most talented IT professionals, offer them
competitive pay and provide great benefits," said Scot Finnie, editor in chief of
Computerworld. "Smart IT people realize that they need to
get up to speed on their employer's revenue opportunities. The
organizations that made this year's Best Places to Work list are
creating a work environment that both trains and encourages IT
personnel to pursue business-driven priorities."
Some of the factors that contributed to CME Group's recognition
by Computerworld included the following:
- Electronic trading represents approximately 84 percent of CME
Group's total volume to date in 2011, versus only 15 percent in
2000. In that same timeframe, average daily total volume has
grown from 917,000 to approximately 13.6 million contracts traded;
- CME Globex operates in approximately 100 countries and foreign
territories and offers global access to the broadest array of
futures and options products across all major asset classes.
It is one of the most efficient and robust electronic trading
platforms available today, capable of executing customer trades in
milliseconds. CME Group's technology team is charged with
continuously enhancing the system's speed, reliability and
scalability to support ongoing growth and customer
demand.
- The company built a world-class data center and co-location
facility with an initial customer launch slated for 2012.
- CME Group is partnering with its global strategic partner,
BM&FBOVESPA, to jointly develop a new multi-asset class
electronic trading platform.
About CME Group
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 for exchange-traded
contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions
through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that
businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty
credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives
markets.
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.
About Computerworld
Computerworld is the leading source of technology news
and information for IT influencers worldwide, providing peer
perspective, IT leadership and business results.
Computerworld's award-winning Web site
(http://www.computerworld.com), bi-weekly publication, focused
conference series and custom research forms the hub of the world's
largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five
years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards,
including Magazine of the Year by American Society of Business
Publication Editors (ASBPE) awards in 2010, the 2009 Best Blog from
the Neal awards, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from ASBPE.
Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of
over 3.5 million unique, monthly visitors (comScore Media Metrix,
August 2010). Computerworld is
published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data
Group (IDG), the world's leading media, events, and research
company. Company information is available at
www.idgenterprise.com.
Note: All product and company names are trademarks of their
respective organizations.
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