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 and its trading facilities in new york and chicago. cme group also operates cme clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through cme clearport®. these products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.