CME Holdings: Today Chicago, tomorrow…

Chicago's futures exchanges are merging to create a Gollath that dominates in the U.S. Now they're mounting attacks overseas -- and on the $370 trillion OTC market.

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08 Mar 2007

Loren Fox

When Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman Terrence Duffy met for dinner last summer with his Chicago Board of Trade counterpart, Charles Carey, the talk quickly turned to a third exchange chief, who wasn’t at the table: John Thain. In June the New York Stock Exchange CEO had struck a $10 billion deal to acquire Paris-based Euronext, turning the Big Board into a serious threat to both Chicago markets: In addition to its pan-European stock market, Euronext owns London-based Euronext.liffe,

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