CME Group Statement on Lehman Brothers Inc.

Sep 15, 2008

CME Group Statement on Lehman Brothers Inc. 13.5 KB

CHICAGO, Sept 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- In response to media inquiries CME Group (Nasdaq: CME), the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, has issued the following statement:

    Lehman Brothers Inc., the CME Group clearing member, continues to meet all
    of its obligations to CME Clearing and continues to operate as normal.

    CME Group's clearing member, Lehman Brothers Inc., is a subsidiary of
    Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., but is a separate company with its own
    accounts, assets and customers.  These accounts, assets and customers are
    protected through a comprehensive federal statutory and regulatory regime
    and other financial safeguards and risk management protections provided by
    CME Clearing.  All customer funds are required to be segregated from firm
    assets, held in specially identified accounts and are not subject to any
    creditors' claims against the firm.

    CME Clearing provides a marketplace where futures and options on futures
    contracts are traded.  CME Clearing clears, settles and guarantees all
    matched transactions in CME Group companies including CME, CBOT and NYMEX.
    The financial integrity of CME Clearing is the foremost consideration of
    CME Group Management, its Board of Directors and its Clearing House Risk
    Committee.  CME Group is vitally aware of its essential role in
    international financial markets and believes that its financial safeguard
    system, designed for the benefit and protection of CME Group markets,
    clearing members and their customers, is second to none.  CME Clearing's
    financial safeguard systems and auditing systems have proved absolutely
    effective for over a century to protect customers and other members of its
    clearing house against any loss.

CME Group (http://www.cmegroup.com) is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Building on the heritage of CME, CBOT and NYMEX, CME Group serves the risk management needs of customers around the globe. As an international marketplace, CME Group brings buyers and sellers together on the CME Globex electronic trading platform and on trading floors in Chicago and New York. CME Group offers the widest range of benchmark products available across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, and alternative investment products such as weather and real estate. CME Group is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol "CME".

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