April 13, 2016

CME Group to Close New York Trading Floor at Year-End
Company to Make Space Available for Floor Traders to Transition to Electronic Venue
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, April 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- As declining open outcry options volume on CME Group's New
York trading floor now represents just 0.3 percent of the company's overall energy and metals trading volumes, CME Groupwill close its New York trading floor at year-end, subject to CFTC review. All options products listed with and subject to therules and regulations of NYMEX and COMEX will be available for trading on CME Globex, and for submission for clearing
through CME ClearPort.
Since the company announced in Q1 2015 that open outcry futures trading in New York would end last Summer, average
daily volume for remaining options products traded through open outcry in New York has further declined by 53 percent tojust 7,500 contracts. Futures trading on the New York trading floor was discontinued in July 2015.
In addition, beginning in Q4 2016, CME Group will make space available for floor traders to transition to electronic trading at
the company's One North End Avenue facility in Battery Park, NY.
After open outcry trading in New York ends on December 30, 2016, the company plans to sublease its existing trading floor
space, but will retain its existing office space in the building for staff.
CME Group's Chicago trading floor will remain open for trading of options on futures contracts, as well as S&P 500 futurescontracts.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the worldcomes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major assetclasses, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. Around the world, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic
trading platform and its exchanges based in Chicago, New York and London. CME Group also operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing andsettlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives. CME Group's products
and services ensure that businesses around the world can effectively manage risk and achieve growth.
CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME, Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange aretrademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT, the Chicago Board of Trade, KCBOT, KCBT and Kansas City
Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchangeand 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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