CHICAGO, July 11,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Chairman and CEO
Terry Duffy today issued the
following statement on behalf of the company:
"The futures industry lost a great leader with the passing of
John O'Brien, Sr., who was a Board
member, former Chairman and former CEO, as well as a founding
family member of RJO & Associates, the oldest and largest
independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the U.S.," said
CME Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy. "John spent his career
championing the U.S. futures industry and was instrumental in
expanding its reach to customers around the world. As someone who
literally grew up in this business, he fostered a culture of
treating all clients and employees as family – a legacy that
continues within RJO today. John was a friend and mentor to
many within the business and will be deeply missed. On behalf
of everyone at CME Group, our heartfelt condolences go out to his
wife, Pat, their children, the entire O'Brien family and all of his
RJO colleagues."
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range
of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
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