---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001156375-26-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CME"
cik: "0001156375"
company_name: "CME GROUP INC."
filed_at: "2026-06-10T20:50:48+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T20:52:08.741203+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CME Group shareholder proposals to eliminate Class B director election rights fail; Class B-3 director remains holdover

## Summary
- Item 4 to eliminate Class B-1 right to elect three directors failed (27.84% B-1 FOR; 80.27% combined FOR but needed majority of outstanding B-1).
- Item 5 to eliminate Class B-2 right to elect two directors failed (23.37% B-2 FOR; 80.27% combined FOR).
- Item 6 to eliminate Class B-3 director election lacked quorum (28.44% of B-3 present).
- Item 7 (certificate amendment contingent on Items 4-6) passed but will not be filed due to those failures.
- Class B-1 and B-2 directors re-elected; Class B-3 director Elizabeth A. Cook continues as holdover.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001156375-26-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CME
- cik: 0001156375
- company_name: CME GROUP INC.
- filed_at: 2026-06-10T20:50:48+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/cme-20260609.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001156375-26-000035.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Election of Class B-2 Director at the 2026-06-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-09
  source text: The Class B-2 director has been re-elected to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders rejected Eliminate the right of the Class B-1 shareholders to elect three directors at the 2026-06-09 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-09
  source text: Item 4 - The proposal to eliminate the right of the Class B-1 shareholders to elect three directors did not pass.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders rejected Eliminate the right of the Class B-2 shareholders to elect two directors at the 2026-06-09 meeting.
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-09
  source text: Item 5 - The proposal to eliminate the right of the Class B-2 shareholders to elect two directors did not pass.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Election of Class B-1 Directors at the 2026-06-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-09
  source text: Each of the Class B-1 directors have been re-elected to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Amendment to our certificate of incorporation at the 2026-06-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-09
  source text: Item 7 - The proposal relating to an amendment to our certificate of incorporation passed; however, the amendment will not be filed, since its approval was contingent upon the approval of Items 4, 5 and 6.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000115637526000035/0001156375-26-000035-index.htm

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