CME Group To Host Sixth Annual Global Financial Leadership Conference

CME Group will host the sixth annual Global Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC) Nov. 18-20, 2013, at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort in Naples, Florida. The GFLC is an exclusive event that brings together decision-makers from the world's leading financial institutions to discuss emerging geopolitical trends, debate critical economic issues and share perspectives on future developments in the financial marketplace.

The full agenda for the conference can be found at: http://www.gflc.com/agenda.html.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

State of global affairs and the impact on financial markets
Next steps for the U.S. Economy and where we are in recovery
Cyber Security and how to protect from this growing global threat
Eurozone outlook

Keynote speakers for this year's conference include:

Hilary Rodham Clinton, 67^th Secretary of State of the United States
Michael Milken, Chairman of The Milken Institute

Additional featured speakers include:

Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the U.K.
Aneesh Chopra, Former Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.
Patrick Fitzgerald, Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Gary Gensler, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Sal Khan, Founder of Kahn Academy and 2013 CME Group Melamed-Arditti Innovation Award Recipient
Kevin Mandia, Founder and CEO of Mandiant
Athanasios Orphanides, Economist and Former Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank
Richard Prager, Global Head of Trading and Capital Markets, BlackRock
Tom Ridge, Former First Secretary of U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Economist and Former Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
Jurgen Stark, Economist and Former Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
Fred Tomcyck, President and CEO of TD Ameritrade

Previous GFLC events have hosted opinion leaders and luminaries such as President Bill Clinton, 42^nd President of the United States and founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation; President George W. Bush, 43^rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Foundation; Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group; Condoleezza Rice, 66^th U.S. Secretary of State; Katie Couric, Award-Winning Journalist and Author; and David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst. Other featured speakers have included Karl Rove, political analyst and contributor for FOX News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal and former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff during the George W. Bush administration; James Carville, American political commentator and media personality; Niall Ferguson, Economic Historian, Professor and Author; Cheng Siwei, Chairman, International Finance Forum of Beijing; Paul Tudor Jones, Founder of Tudor Investment Corporation; Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball and The Big Short; Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer prize-winning author and authority on international politics, economics and energy.

To follow GFLC coverage during and after the 2013 conference, visit CME Group's online magazine and blog, OpenMarkets, at www.openmarkets.com. To access additional information about the conference as well as previous GFLC video, photo and press highlights, visit the conference website at www.gflc.com.