CME Group CEO Terry Duffy on Markets: From Chicago Trading Floors to the Future

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Terry Duffy recounts his Chicago trading-floor start, lessons from 1987 and 2008, and how electronic trading, 24/7 markets, rising rates and crypto are shaping the future of markets.

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Terry Duffy walks through a lifetime inside the market, from hand signals on Chicago trading floors to the algorithms running order books today, and he punctuates that history with moments that still shape rules, liquidity and trader behavior. He revisits the 1987 crash and the 2008 crisis as formative events that changed how CME Group manages risk, and he frames electronic trading, 24/7 access and crypto as the three structural shifts currently reshaping price discovery and product design. The clip’s most interesting thread is how a single institution adapted its business model while the markets around it rewired.