SINGAPORE, March 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced that it has appointed Eli
Cohen as Executive Director, Associate General Counsel,
Asia, effective 1 March 2016.
In this role, Cohen will be responsible for legal and regulatory
work for CME Group's Asia Pacific
local office operations, as well as legal work for local marketing
and sales activities of CME Group's exchanges, clearing house, data
repositories and partner exchanges in the region. Based in
Singapore, Cohen will report to
Adrienne Seaman, Managing Director,
and Head of Legal, EMEA and Asia.
"We are pleased to welcome Eli to CME Group in this critical
role, as we continue to grow our business across Asia Pacific," said Christopher Fix, Managing Director, Head of
Asia Pacific, CME Group. "Eli's
extensive knowledge of the derivatives industry and market
structure in Asia will be crucial
in supporting the expansion of our products and services in the
region."
"Eli's vast derivatives industry experience will be key to CME
Group's strategy and business development initiatives in
Asia Pacific," said Adrienne Seaman, Managing Director, and Head of
Legal, EMEA and Asia, CME
Group. "We are confident that he will bring invaluable
regulatory and transactional expertise, as well as deep insights of
current and proposed regulatory regimes and business
practices."
Cohen has 25 years of experience, having worked in organisations
including Singapore Exchange, Euroclear, and the Asian Development
Bank, across various legal and compliance roles in Asia and Europe. He has also worked at
Baker & McKenzie in Chicago,
Moscow and Washington. He joins CME Group from Singapore
Exchange where he had been Head of Legal (Regulation) for the last
two and a half years.
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, 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. 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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