CHICAGO, Oct. 12,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading
derivatives marketplace, today announced it has named Jonathan Marcus as Senior Managing Director and
General Counsel.
Marcus will serve as the chief legal advisor for CME Group and
will oversee the company's compliance, enterprise risk management,
legal and market regulation functions. He will report to CME Group
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry
Duffy.
Marcus most recently worked in private practice as a partner at
Reed Smith, LLP, where he specialized in derivatives regulation,
litigation and enforcement. He previously served as General Counsel
of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2013
to 2017, advising the commission on a wide range of issues,
including implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act and digital asset
regulation.
"Jonathan brings nearly 30 years of experience in regulatory
enforcement, compliance and litigation across both government and
private practice, and we are very pleased to add him to our
Management Team," said Duffy. "As we continue to transform our
business and serve our clients around the world, Jonathan's global
legal expertise will be critical to our efforts to achieve our
strategic objectives."
Marcus also served as the CFTC's Deputy General Counsel for
Litigation and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of
the United States. He held senior
roles in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's Derivatives
Group and Covington & Burling's Appellate and Supreme Court
Group. Marcus began his career as a clerk for Judge José A.
Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He
earned a bachelor's degree from Yale and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group
(www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash
and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering
market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and
capture opportunities.CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of
global benchmark products across all major asset classes based
on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign
exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing.
CME Group, the Globe logo, CME, Chicago Mercantile Exchange,
Globex, and, E-mini are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile
Exchange Inc. CBOT and Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of Board
of Trade of the City of Chicago,
Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are
trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a
trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. BrokerTec and EBS are
trademarks of BrokerTec Europe LTD and EBS Group LTD,
respectively. Dow Jones, Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P
500 and S&P are service and/or trademarks of Dow Jones
Trademark Holdings LLC, Standard & Poor's Financial Services
LLC and S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC, as the case may be, and have
been licensed for use by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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