NYMEX Holdings, Inc. Statement Regarding Its Clearing Members And Financial Safeguards

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., today confirmed that all NYMEX clearing members, including MF Global, Inc. and Bear Stearns Securities Corp., continue to meet all of their obligations to NYMEX and remain in good standing.

NYMEX has a comprehensive and proven risk management program in place to protect and benefit its clearing members and customers, and is confident the financial safeguards it has established are effective.