DePaul University’s finance department hosted a timely discussion of the “Future of Futures” at the DePaul Center in April, where executives from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and industry experts discussed how consolidation, globalization and electronic trading are shaping the financial futures industry in Chicago.

About 50 students, faculty, alumni and members of the public attended the event, which was sponsored by DePaul’s Fred Arditti Center for Risk Management and Circle of Finance Opportunities, DePaul’s finance alumni association.

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Caption: Left to right, back row: Ray Whittington, DePaul College of Commerce dean; Ali Fatemi, finance department chair; John Nyhoff, director of research and product development, CME, who was the panel moderator. Front row, left to right: Panelists Scott Gordon, chief executive officer, Rosenthal Collins Group and former chairman of the CME; Peter Johnson, managing director, J.P. Morgan Futures Inc.; and John P. Davidson III, managing director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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Caption: John P. Davidson III, managing director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, outlined how globalization and consolidation are affecting the futures industry, as fellow panelist Scott Gordon, chief executive officer of Rosenthal Collins Group and former chairman of the CME, listens in. Davidson, Gordon and Peter Johnson, managing director of J.P. Morgan Futures Inc., participated in the April 10 panel discussion, the “Futures of Futures,” hosted by Finance Department Chair Ali Fatemi and sponsored by DePaul’s Fred Arditti Center for Risk Management.