"We are extremely proud of the accomplishments this past year from our entire information technology staff who have remained focused on several strategic initiatives at the same time as we continue to meet the daily needs of our customers, employees and partners," said CME Group Chief Information Officer Kevin Kometer. "In 2011, we completed and made operational our data center that will host our co-location services in 2012, launched our order routing agreement with MexDer, and last month went live with our new joint trading platform with our global strategic partner BM&FBovespa. These are all major achievements for CME Group as we continue to use our technology capabilities to execute our global growth strategy."