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By Futures Staff |
February 1, 2013
Stormy in more ways than one, 2012 was a rough year. Here is our tongue-in-cheek look back over its defining events.
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By Alanna Byrne |
December 3, 2012
CME Group announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), adding hard red winter (HRW) wheat to its offering of agricultural products.
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By Press Release |
December 3, 2012
CME Group announced it has completed its acquisition of the Kansas City Board of Trade, the leading futures market for hard red winter wheat.
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By Alanna Byrne |
November 16, 2012
On the heels of a Congressional report assigning blame for the firm's collapse, we offer our take on the most important executives, officials and regulators involved in the case
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By Alanna Byrne |
October 25, 2012
CME Group’s profits and volumes dropped significantly in the third quarter compared to last year, but still managed to beat analysts’ expectations, according to an earnings report released Thursday.
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By Press Release |
October 17, 2012
CME Group and the Kansas City Board of Trade today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which CME Group will acquire the Kansas City Board of Trade.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
September 21, 2012
CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy addressed current global economic problems, confidence in marekts and recent regulatory breakdowns in a speech at Georgetown University.
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By Alanna Byrne |
August 10, 2012
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held a public roundtable Thursday in an effort to reassure futures industry customers rattled by the collapses of MF Global and PFGBest.
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By Michael McFarlin & Daniel P. Collins |
August 2, 2012
Yesterday’s hearings of the U.S. Senate’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee probing the MF Global and PFGBest scandals had less fireworks than past hearings but perhaps a more serious tone.
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By Michael McFarlin |
July 25, 2012
Members of the House Agriculture Committee had the opportunity to grill members of the futures industry regulatory regime today in a hearing that focused on recent scandals.