CHICAGO, May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) today announced the preliminary shareholder voting results from its 2015 annual meeting.

At the meeting, shareholders:


    --  elected Terrence A. Duffy, Phupinder S. Gill, Timothy S. Bitsberger,
        Charles P. Carey, Dennis H. Chookaszian, Ana Dutra, Martin J. Gepsman,
        Larry G. Gerdes, Daniel R. Glickman, J. Dennis Hastert, Leo Melamed,
        William P. Miller II, James E. Oliff, Edemir Pinto, Alex J. Pollock,
        John F. Sandner, Terry L. Savage, William R. Shepard, Dennis A. Suskind
        each for a one-year term expiring in 2016;
    --  ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent
        registered public accounting firm for 2015;
    --  approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive
        officers; and
    --  approved, on an advisory basis, an amendment to our Tenth Amended and
        Restated Bylaws to adopt Delaware as the exclusive forum for certain
        legal claims.

In addition, the company's Class B-1 shareholders elected Jeffrey M. Bernacchi, William W. Hobert and Howard J. Siegel for one-year terms, Class B-2 shareholders elected Ronald A. Pankau and David J. Wescott for one-year terms and Class B-3 shareholders elected Elizabeth A. Cook for a one-year term, each ending in 2016.

The official results and voting percentages for each of these proposals will be disclosed in a report to be filed early next week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform, its trading facilities in New York and Chicago, and through its London-based CME Europe derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

CME Group is a trademark of CME Group Inc. The Globe Logo, CME, Globex and Chicago Mercantile Exchange are trademarks of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. CBOT and the Chicago Board of Trade are trademarks of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange and ClearPort are registered trademarks of New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. COMEX is a trademark of Commodity Exchange, Inc. KCBOT, KCBT and Kansas City Board of Trade are trademarks of The Board of Trade of Kansas City, Missouri, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Further information about CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) and its products can be found at www.cmegroup.com.

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