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Cme

DC · 12 filings, 2025

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What the money shows

CME reported $1.7M in federal lobbying for 2025 across 12 filings. The filings name 3 lobbying firms, led by CME and Russell. The filing text lists 5 issue areas.

Sources: Senate LDA · FEC

Lobbying spend · 2025
$1.7M
to shape legislation
About the organization

CME Group Inc. (formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, operates exchanges and provides clearing services for trading in financial derivatives such as futures contracts, options, and swaps. Its exchanges include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the Commodity Exchange (COMEX). The company also owns 27% of S&P Dow Jones Indices. The company operates the Globex Trading System, an electronic trading platform that allows customers in approximately 150 countries to trade futures and options contracts. The company also operates two platforms for spot market trading: BrokerTec, which facilitates dealer-to-dealer trading in fixed-income products, and EBS, which provides spot trading in foreign exchange markets. CME Clearing serves as a counterparty to every transaction cleared by the company. via Wikipedia ↗

1Lobbies on

Its filings list: Agriculture · Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code · Budget/Appropriations · Defense

2Through these firms · 3

CME GROUP, INC.THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.OGR

3Bills moving in its lanes

No bill names this company outright; these are recent bills in the sectors it lobbies.