CHICAGO, May 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc.
(NASDAQ: CME) today announced the preliminary shareholder voting
results from its 2019 annual meeting.
At the meeting, shareholders:
- elected Terrence A. Duffy,
Timothy S. Bitsberger, Charles P. Carey, Dennis
H. Chookaszian, Ana Dutra,
Martin J. Gepsman, Larry G. Gerdes, Daniel
R. Glickman, Daniel G. Kaye,
Phyllis M. Lockett, Deborah J. Lucas, Alex
J. Pollock, Terry L. Savage,
William R. Shepard, Howard J. Siegel, Michael A. Spencer and Dennis A. Suskind, each for a one-year term
expiring in 2020;
- ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the
company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2019;
and
- approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of named
executive officers.
In addition, the company's Class B-1 shareholders elected Gedon
Hertshten, William W. Hobert and
Robert J. Tierney Jr. and the Class
B-2 shareholders elected Ronald A.
Pankau and David J. Wescott,
each for a one-year term expiring in 2020.
There was no quorum in the election of the Class B-3 director.
As a result, Elizabeth A. Cook, will
holdover and continue to serve until her successor is duly elected
at the 2020 annual meeting.
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) 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. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec, EBS, TriOptima,
and Traiana are trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD, EBS Group LTD,
TriOptima AB, and Traiana, Inc., respectively. Dow
Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and S&P are
service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC,
Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and S&P/Dow Jones
Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have been licensed for use by
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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