
Customers are the foundation of our success, and CME Group Magazine is designed to provide you with the latest information about new products, services and technology, as well as perspectives on the marketplace through interviews and case histories that highlight customers and other industry leaders.
As a company built on innovation, CME Group is constantly working to improve the way the
world manages risk. This issue highlights innovative people, products and ideas that help foster
progress within the financial services industry globally.
Features include:
• A cover story profiling Tom Peterffy, world-class innovator and head of Interactive Brokers, one of the
largest brokerage and market making firms in the world.
• An article on the launch of CME Lehman Brothers U.S.Aggregate Index futures, based on the
pre-eminent benchmark debt index for U.S. investment-grade fixed-income securities.
• A global perspective from Andrew Busch, Bank of Montreal FX strategist, illustrating how innovative
traders can generate profit from fast-moving front page events.
• A look at IDEO, a noted innovation firmin Silicon Valley that helps companies in many different
sectors develop creative ways to serve and support end users.
• A dialog with breakthrough leaders fromthe financialmarketplace, including Robert Greifeld
from NASDAQ, Kevin Davis from MF Global and Matt Andresen from Citadel, at a CME Group/
NASDAQ Industry Forum.
• A look at the important role of commercial real estate futures in today's economy.
Also, this issue is especially noteworthy in that it is the first one in which we have accepted outside
advertising from our customers and partners. We welcome all of them. You will notice their ads
interspersed throughout.
We think their interest reflects well on the quality of our publication, and we invite you to contact our publisher, Newsdesk Media Inc. at 202.904.2423, if you would like additional information about this ongoing option.
We hope you enjoy this issue of CME Group Magazine.

Craig S. Donohue
Chief Executive Officer
