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CME Group is the operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Mercantile Exchange. As the world’s largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, we bring more than 250 years of expertise of trading futures and options to the global marketplace.

We offer the widest range of commodity derivatives available at any exchange, with futures and options on grains, livestock, oilseeds, dairy, lumber, and other products. In addition CME Group, which now includes NYMEX, offers the largest and most liquid marketplace for and options on global benchmark energy products. These include crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, ethanol, propane, and other products. We provide three venues for trading energy contracts – electronic trading via CME Globex, open outcry trading on our trading floor in New York, and centrally cleared off-exchange or OTC transactions while commodities trade virtually around the clock on CME Globex electronic trading platform. Clearport handles the clearing of more than 350 energy products, traded both on- and off-exchange. Our central clearing process for all CME Group products ensures transparency, virtually eliminates counterparty credit risk, and provides a solid foundation for all CME Group transactions.

Our Group’s depth in commodities and energy trading makes us the ideal venue to help nurture the development of Biofuels trading globally. Find out more at www.cmegroup.com.

CME Group | Watling House | 33 Cannon Street | London | EC4M 5SB | +44 20 7796 7100 – Telephone | +44 20 7796 7110– Fax
info@cmegroup.com | www.cmegroup.com

Starsupply Renewables was founded in 2006  and is the leading brokerage firm in renewable energy, facilitating trades in the physical and derivative renewable energy markets.  We provide market liquidity and price discovery in biofuels such as biodiesel, ethanol and other green fuels and related products as well as feedstocks such as sugar, corn, wheat, soybeans, rapeseed, palm oil and others.

FCStone provides commodity risk-management consulting services to producers, processors, and end users of a wide range of physical commodities, including energy and renewable fuels, agricultural commodities, food products, forest products, cotton and textiles, metals and foreign exchange.

FCStone helps its client companies manage the price volatility inherent in the commodity markets. The result is that our client companies have an enhanced ability to meet their budgets and to achieve profit and margin objectives.

FCStone's European office was recently opened in Dublin.