CME Group Inc. (CME)

Derivatives exchange and clearing house, 58% U.S. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 30 of the 173 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

CME Group states about 3,875 employees, 58% in the U.S., running futures and options exchanges and a clearing house read at securities and commodity exchanges, with its market data business at data processing by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 57% now, 71% at the end of 2027, 73% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 23% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 65% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,875 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 58% (approximately 2,230) of employees work in the U.S. and 42% (approximately 1,645) in fifteen other countries.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our global employee population consisted of approximately 3,875 employees, with 58% (approximately 2,230) working in the U.S. and the remaining 42% (approximately 1,645) working in our various non-U.S. locations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,875 employees, 2,230 in the U.S. and 1,645 abroad; 4.1% voluntary turnover, 35.9% of open roles filled internally and 14.5% of employees promoted in 2025; no hourly, part-time or union counts.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028
• The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS, 47,400 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)55% now, 73% by 2028
• The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW, 33,000 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028
• BlackRock, Inc. (BLK, 24,900 employees)57% now, 73% by 2028
• Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS, 23,800 employees)58% now, 73% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

18 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its clients can use Google's AI and data capabilities to develop and test trading strategies, and names attacks created through AI among its cybersecurity risks, in 18 sentences.

• “In addition to our state-of-the-art trading infrastructure, our clients will also be able to utilize Google's artificial intelligence and data capabilities to help develop, test and implement trading strategies to manage their risk more efficiently. 9 Table of Contents Patents, Trademarks and Licenses We own the rights to a large number of trademarks, service marks, domain names and trade names...”
• “Our competitors may: respond more quickly to competitive pressures and opportunities, including responses based upon their corporate governance structures, which may be more flexible and efficient than our corporate governance structure; develop products that are preferred by our customers compared to those offered by CME Group; develop risk transfer products that compete with our products; pri...”
• “Our technology, our customers, our people and our third-party service providers are vulnerable to targeted attacks, such as "phishing" attacks, unauthorized access, fraud, business email compromise, computer viruses, denial of service attacks, terrorism, "ransomware" attacks, attacks created through artificial intelligence, firewall or encryption failures or other security or operational risks.”
• “The regulatory environment related to information security, privacy, data collection, data usage and use of artificial intelligence is increasingly rigorous and complex, and any failure to comply may carry significant penalties and reputational damage.”
• “Factors that may affect our performance and demand for our data include, but are not limited to: Our ability to maintain existing customers utilizing our data and to attract new customers with our products and services; A challenging business environment for our customers, which may require them to reduce their usage of our market data; The impacts of new regulations, laws, rules or other gover...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20235median 1
• Fiscal 20248median 4
• Fiscal 202518median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The split between exchange and data work is by description (c); the filing counts no employees by business.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001156375-26-000009, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.