Mergers

  • Does size matter?

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 6, 2009

    CME Group has received a lot of honors since its IPO in late 2002 and generally is seen as a pretty forward looking company, so ...

  • Treasury provides venture capital

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 29, 2008

    On the way into work this morning I read a story of how a healthy local bank here in Chicago (actually upscale Lake Forest) was ...

  • Not so fast

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  October 24, 2008

    Christopher Cox, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said he strongly supported a merger with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) during ...

  • Wheres your money? Wheres your risk?

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  June 24, 2008

    It has been almost one year since the subprime problems first surfaced last July as two Bear Stearns hedge funds acknowledged that they had lost ...

  • CME makes comeback

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  June 18, 2008

    When CME Group stock gapped up more than $16 on Tuesday there was little doubt it had to do with the exchange securing approval from ...

  • Has CBOE/CBOT buried hatchet?

    By Daniel P. Collins  |  June 2, 2008

    Early Monday morning we got word that the Executive Committee of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) had suspended all purchase and sale transactions in ...

  • Take that ELX!

    By System Import  |  March 17, 2008

    While the stock and bond markets are roiling due to the Bear Stearns rescue, the CME Group and Nymex announced today they signed a "defnitive ...

  • CME CEO mum on Nymex talks

    By System Import  |  January 28, 2008

    CME Group announced today it has successfully migrated e-cbot interest rate futures and options on futures to its CME Globex electronic trading platform. The bigger ...

  • Sell me another...

    By System Import  |  August 23, 2007

    MMM. Hmm. The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) has confessed — revealing in a statement that it is in talks with certain "parties" in regards ...

  • Consolidation-Junction whats your function?

    By System Import  |  August 17, 2007

    We all knew it was a matter of time before all of the exchanges in the whole entire world began consolidating — which, of course, ...

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