CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, will host
the fourth annual Global Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC)
Oct. 24-26, 2011, at the Ritz-Carlton
Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. The
GFLC is an exclusive event that brings together decision-makers
from the world's leading financial institutions to discuss emerging
geopolitical trends, debate critical economic issues and provide
perspectives on future developments in the financial
marketplace.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Potential impact of current and proposed regulatory
policy;
- The evolving role of risk management;
- Impact of geopolitical trends on global financial markets;
- The state of sovereign debt and sovereign risk;
- The global demand for energy;
- Impact of the current food crisis; and
- The new information paradigm impacting politics and
markets.
Keynote speakers for this year's conference include:
- President George W. Bush, 43rd
President of the United States of
America and Founder of the George W. Bush Foundation
- Katie Couric, Award-Winning
Journalist and Author
Additional featured speakers include:
- Julie Dana, Senior Financial
Specialist, World Bank
- Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senate
Majority Leader
- Niall Ferguson, Economic
Historian, Professor and Author
- Dan Glickman, Former U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture
- Arianna Huffington, President
and Editor-in-Chief of Huffington Post Media Group
- Robert Merton, Nobel Prize
Winning Economist and Professor of Economics, MIT
- Bill Richardson, Former Governor
of New Mexico, Former U.S. Energy
Secretary
- Myron Scholes, Nobel Prize
Winning Economist and Chairman, Platinum Grove Asset
Management
- Cheng Siwei, Chairman, International Finance Forum of
Beijing
- Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter
Previous GFLC events have hosted opinion leaders and luminaries
such as President Bill Clinton, 42nd
President of the United States and
founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation, and David Gergen, CNN senior political
analyst. Other featured speakers include Paul Tudor Jones, Founder of Tudor Investment
Corporation; Michael Lewis,
best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball and
The Big Short; Robert Rubin,
former U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Daniel
Yergin, Pulitzer prize-winning author and authority on
international politics, economics and energy. To access
previous GFLC video, photo and press highlights, as well as 2011
conference information, visit the conference website at
http://www.gflc.com/.
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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