Company Achievements

• Cleared nearly 4.1 billion contracts
• Achieved record average daily volume of 16.3 million contracts
• Delivered volume records in interest rates, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, total options and electronic options
• Recorded approximately 25 percent of volume and 30 percent of clearing and transaction fee revenues from outside the United States
• Reported open interest of 108 million contracts at year-end 2017
• Generated $1.8 billion in cash from operations
• Declared $2.1 billion of dividends to shareholders