The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) filed an application with the U.S. securities regulator for an initial public offering.CBOE, the largest U.S. options exchange by trading volume, filed form S-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday as a first step towards the IPO.”There isn’t another exchange out there like CBOE that would be ready to come to market,” CBOE Chief Executive Bill Brodsky said.CBOE’S long-running quest to demutualize was delayed by a legal battle with some Chicago Board of Trade members over ownership rights, which was eventually settled last year.The settlement paved the way for the IPO plans.CBOE’s peers the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the International Stock Exchange (ISE), and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) all elected earlier this decade to go public before agreeing to takeovers by larger exchanges.CBOE offers equity, index and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) options, including proprietary products, such as S&P 500 options, the most active U.S.
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CBOE files for $300 million IPO
March 11th, 2010 
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December 16th, 2009 Before You Invest When Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme unraveled at the end of 2008, many in the industry wondered how he did it, how otherwise savvy investors were lured into it, and how regulators failed to stop it. These are the questions that Erin Arvedlund attempts to answer in her book “Too Excellent to Be Right: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff.”The book explores Madoff’s background, interviewing classmates from his days at Far Rockaway High School in New York, who noted that Bernie was an average guy who they never dreamed would ascend to titan of Wall Street and chairman of the Nasdaq.
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