CHICAGO, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group,
the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that for the eighth year in a row it has been recognized
in the InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most
innovative users of business technology. The 2011 list was revealed
last night at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive
InformationWeek 500 Conference taking place at the St. Regis
Monarch Beach Resort, Dana Point,
CA.
"As a global company, we continue to look for ways to develop
technology for the benefit of our customers, whether they are
located in Asia or Europe and trading electronically, or on one
of our trading floors in the United
States utilizing a tablet device," said CME Group Chief
Operating Officer Bryan Durkin.
"Technology has become interwoven into the very fabric of our way
of thinking, and we are passionate and excited as an organization
about looking for ways to meet the needs of our customers."
"We are extremely proud of the accomplishments this past year
from our entire information technology staff who have remained
focused on several strategic initiatives at the same time as we
continue to meet the daily needs of our customers, employees
and partners," said CME Group Chief Information Officer
Kevin Kometer. "In 2011, we
completed and made operational our data center that will host our
co-location services in 2012, launched our order routing agreement
with MexDer, and last month went live with our new joint trading
platform with our global strategic partner BM&FBovespa. These
are all major achievements for CME Group as we continue to use our
technology capabilities to execute our global growth strategy."
Watch Kevin Kometer discuss the
InformationWeek 500 honor in a video here:
http://at.pscdn.net/008/00102/videoplatform/110902infoweek.html.
"For 23 years, the InformationWeek 500 has chronicled and
honored the most innovative users of business technology," said
InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob
Preston. "In this day and age, however, being innovative
isn't enough. Companies and their IT organizations need to innovate
faster than ever before to stay a step or two ahead of their
customers, partners, and competitors. This year's ranking placed
special emphasis on those high-octane business technology
innovators."
InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most
innovative users of information technology with its annual 500
listing and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and
administrative practices of America's best-known companies. Top
winners have included: The Vanguard Group, CME Group, Conway,
National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The
InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as
it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology,
rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.
Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found
online at http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/.
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.
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