CHICAGO, May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME) today announced the preliminary shareholder voting
results from its 2015 annual meeting.
At the meeting, shareholders:
- elected Terrence A. Duffy,
Phupinder S. Gill, Timothy S. Bitsberger, Charles P. Carey, Dennis
H. Chookaszian, Ana Dutra,
Martin J. Gepsman, Larry G. Gerdes, Daniel
R. Glickman, J. Dennis
Hastert, Leo Melamed,
William P. Miller II, James E. Oliff, Edemir
Pinto, Alex J. Pollock,
John F. Sandner, Terry L. Savage, William
R. Shepard, Dennis A. Suskind
each for a one-year term expiring in 2016;
- ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our
independent registered public accounting firm for 2015;
- approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named
executive officers; and
- approved, on an advisory basis, an amendment to our Tenth
Amended and Restated Bylaws to adopt Delaware as the exclusive forum for certain
legal claims.
In addition, the company's Class B-1 shareholders elected
Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, William W. Hobert and Howard J. Siegel for one-year terms, Class B-2
shareholders elected Ronald A.
Pankau and David J. Wescott
for one-year terms and Class B-3 shareholders elected Elizabeth A. Cook for a one-year term, each
ending in 2016.
The official results and voting percentages for each of these
proposals will be disclosed in a report to be filed early next week
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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, its trading
facilities in New York and
Chicago, and through its
London-based CME Europe
derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
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. KCBOT, KCBT and Kansas
City Board of Trade are trademarks of The Board of Trade of
Kansas City, Missouri, 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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