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Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Appoints Director, Corporate Communications

Date 05/11/2002

Anita S. Liskey has joined Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) as Director, Corporate Communications.

In her new position, Liskey assumes day-to-day responsibility for CME's media relations, broadcast and financial/shareholder communications, as well as other corporate communications functions. Liskey reports to Ellen G. Resnick, Director, Corporate Relations.

Most recently, Liskey was Associate Vice President, Corporate Communications for T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., an investment management firm based in Baltimore. In this role, Liskey was responsible for internal and external communications programs to build the company's brand and communicate major corporate changes, including mergers and reorganizations. From 1995 to 2000, Liskey was Vice President, Communications for Wells Fargo & Co., where she managed communications programs and initiatives for the company's Iowa-based businesses, including Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Card Services, Financial and Home Equity. As Manager, Financial Communications for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) from 1991 to 1995, Liskey's major responsibilities included acting as the exchange's spokesperson, media liaison and speechwriter, as well as administering the CBOT Foundation. Her experience includes working with financial services and other companies as an account executive with Financial Shares Corp. and Manning, Selvage & Lee, Chicago. Liskey received her bachelor's degree in journalism in 1987 from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (www.cme.com) is the largest futures exchange in the United States and the second largest exchange in the world for the trading of futures and options on futures. As an international marketplace, CME brings together buyers and sellers on its trading floors and GLOBEX® around-the-clock electronic trading platform. CME offers futures and options on futures primarily in four product areas: interest rates, stock indexes, foreign exchange and commodities. The exchange moves an average of about $1.7 billion per day in settlement payments and manages $27.7 billion in collateral deposits. CME is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.