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Below please find a selection of news articles, quotes by industry experts, and links to useful information that explains how CME Group can help you Rise Above the Risk.

New Clearing Overview - The Best Risk Management Starts With Security
Financial Safeguards Quick Reference Guide
Financial Safeguards brochure
Print Ad, Rise Above the Risk

Webinars and Broadcasts:

Terry Duffy and CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo Talk Credit Default Swaps
Webinar: The Best Risk Management Starts With Security hosted by CME Clearing President Kim Taylor
CME Group Executive Chairman, Terry Duffy, discusses the credit default swap market on FOX Business News
Craig Donohue comments on Credit Derivatives - Bloomberg Television

Related Articles, Testimony, and Documents:

House Testimony of Terry Duffy, CME Group Executive Chairman, Monday, December 8, 2008
Calls for derivatives clearing intensify. Jeremy Grant, Gillian Tett and Aline Van Duyn, October 15 2008, Financial Times
Traders rush OTC deals on to commodities exchanges., Javier Blas and Jeremy Grant, October 13 2008, Financial Times
How to Solve the Derivatives Problem. Walter Lukken, October 10, 2008, The Wall Street Journal
Analysis: Crisis could spark migration to regulated markets. Jonathan Spicer, September 22, 2008, Reuters News
House Testimony of Kim Taylor, Managing Director and President of CME Clearing, Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Senate Testimony of Terry Duffy, CME Group Executive Chairman, Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Speech by Craig Donohue for the CFA Society of Chicago

Thoughts From Financial Leaders:

Moving trades onto regulated exchanges, as the industry trade body ISDA has discussed, should be the first step. It would mean that buyers and sellers of protection are more efficiently matched. -- Financial Times, 9/23/08

“One possible way to help with the problems [in OTC derivative trading] in the future is to ensure companies price positions on a daily basis, as the listed futures market does,” said Bob Tebbutt, vice-president of risk management at futures and options trading house Peregrine Financial Group Canada Inc.

Chip Dempsey, a clearing industry consultant in the US, said there was a need for new services. He said: “In the credit-crunch environment, it is not safe to assume that one counterparty is able to make its agreed payment. The comfort of having a guaranteed default fund of a clearing house is now essential.” Competition raises stakes for clearers, Financial News, 09/08/2008

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