Recent

Introduction of Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker at the CME Group Lecture Series of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
(04/18/2013)
Centennial Celebration, The Life & Vision of Milton Friedman
Remarks by Leo Melamed at the Friedman Foundation event in Chicago
(7/31/2012)
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the 20th Anniversary
of the Nikkei 225 Futures Market Symposium in Osaka
(09/02/2008)
Remarks by Leo Melamed on Oil Speculation and Politics
(06/25/2008)
Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the CME Group Center of Innovation Fred Arditti Innovation Award
(04/23/2008)
Statement by Leo Melamed Pertaining to the Treasury
Department’s Blueprint on Regulatory Reform
(03/31/2008)
Remarks by Leo Melamed "Derivatives, Defined, Described and Distinguished"  delivered at Peking University in Beijing, China (03/13/2008)

Educational

Remarks by Leo Melamed at the Hebrew University Scopus Award (06/18/2007)
Reality Check by Leo Melamed - CME FX Seminar
April, 2007 - New York, NY
Remarks by Leo Melamed at the Milton Friedman commemoration held at Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago (01/29/2007)
Remarks by Leo Melamed at the Inaugural Celebration of the CME-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications awarded to Professor Stephen Ross of MIT(09/21/2006)
Remarks By Leo Melamed - CME Fred Arditti Innovation Award to Leo Melamed - Four Seasons Hotel, Chicago (04/ 20/2006)
Commencement Address - DePaul University: Knowledge Tag (06/12/2005)
Opening Comments: Futures, Derivatives and Public Policy Roundtable Program (02/25-26/1999)
Futures & Derivatives in an Emerging Economy (Argentina) ((10/15/1997)
Reputation and Competition (April 1997)
Doomed Diplomacy (11/14/1995)
Derivatives: Not a Four Letter Word (02/15/1995)
Our American Free Markets (06/17/1991)
Chicken Little Revisited (February 1988)
Call to Arms (09/30/1986)
What Joseph Wrought (Spring 1981)
The Development of Financial Futures in the United States (10/01/1980)
Sleazy Speculator (11/27/1974)
Psychology of a Successful Trader (10/10/1970)
Art of Futures Trading (11/10/1969)
Be a Lover, Not a Fighter (03/20/1969)

Evolution of Financial Futures

In the 21st Century - The Future of Futures (03/14/2006)
Futures Exchanges in a Changed World Order (10/26/2002)
Tomorrow's Financial Markets (03/17/2000)
Wake Up Call (11/09/1995)
Stages in the Evolution of an Exchange (09/11-14/1995)
Derivatives: Risk and Reward (Nov/Dec 1994)
In Defense of Derivatives (03/07/1994)
Pacific Rim (October 1991)
Global 24-Hour Risk Management (09/12/1991)
Futures: Then and Now ((January 1991)
Need for Risk Management (05/30/1990)
Third Milestone (1988 Annual Report)
Embracing Reality (1987 Annual Report)
Necessity (11/16/1982)
A Critique of Automation of the Transaction Process (1977)

Legislation and Regulation

Testimony before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Hearing Regarding CEA Re-Authorization - United States Senate (09/23/1999)
Fixed Exchange Rate Foolishness 04/24/1986)
Futures, the Coveted Scapegoat (December 1985)
Fed Study on Futures and Options (12/21/1985)
National Futures Association (1982)
Pioneerism (08/13/1975)
H.R. 131131 and the Birth of the CFTC ((05/14/1974)

Foreign Jurisdictions

The Dynamism of Innovation - Remarks by Leo Melamed presented at the Beijing Central Business District Alliance Summit Beijing, China (10/15/2011).
Derivatives Dawn in China - Mr. Melamed's keynote address at the China Derivatives Conference announcing the launch of the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) in China. (10/24/2006)
White Cats, Black Cats (09/26/2005)
Futures Markets for China (September 2004)
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (09/15-16/1999)
Futures and Derivatives in an Emerging Economy (Brazil) ((10/14/1997)
Asian-Pacific Market ((11/26/1996)
Downsizing of Risk (04/25/1995)
Derivatives and the Asian Market (12/15/1994)
Brief History of Financial Futures (05/03/1994)
Protectionism (04/08/1992)
Futures in the New World Order ((05/23/1991)
Free Markets in Moscow (11/01/1990)
Free Market Victory (11/08/1990)
Shape of Things to Come (11/10-11/1988)
Homecoming (09/02/1988)
LIFFE ((09/14-15/1982)

Historical

Statement by Leo Melamed at the CME-CBOT Merger Announcement (10/17/2006)
Reflections on the Twentieth Century (10/22/1998)
Birth and Development of Financial Futures (04/25/1996)
Globex ((1989)
Metamorphosis of Futures and Options (11/10/1985)
The International Monetary Market of the CME (--/--/19--)
Chicago's Future in Futures (11/07/1973)
A Futures Market in Currency (04/19/1972)

1987 Stock Market Crash

Jaws of Victory (11/13/1989)
Good Old Days (01/26/1989)
Quintessential Lessons (07/22/1988)
Excerpts from Testimony, 1987 Stock Market Crash (02/04/1988)

Peering into the Future

Chicago as a Financial Center in the Twenty First Century (June 2004)
Futures Markets for China at the Dawn of the 21st Century (09/23/2003)
Deriding Derivatives (06/12/2003)
Our Middle Name (02/15/2002)
Derivatives Exchanges in a Changed World Order (November 2001)
Buy a Call on the Snake (07/02/2001)
Futures Markets in an E-Commerce World (10/15-17/2000)
Chicago Futures in the Twenty First Century (05/15/2000)
Commencement Address - Loyola University Chicago (05/13/2000)
Futures Markets in the Digital Century (05/11-12/1999)
Derivatives Markets (10/27/1993)
Tomorrow's Technological Tidal Wave (11/07/1991)
Financial Markets in the Coming Decade (November 1990)
Responding to Globalization (1987)
Memory (11/11/1986)
The Future of Futures (10/28/1983)

Noteworthy Essays

Introduction of Mimi Sheraton at the Food as Roots Award Celebration at YIVO (02/28/2006)
The Rest of the Story (01/18/2005)
Remarks On the Celebration of the Chinese Translation of Escape to the Futures (05/28/2004)
Reflections on a World Lost (01/12/2004)
Innovation Center (06/19/2003)
Tenth Anniversary of Globex (06/21/2002)
IMM 30th Anniversary Celebration ((05/14/2002)
A Common Mission (06/15/2001)
Merton Miller Memorial Service (10/14/2000)
Lee A. Freeman Memorial Service (04/22/1995)
IMM Tenth Anniversary Celebration (06/04/1982)

Odds & Ends

Introduction of Mimi Sheraton by Leo Melamed at the Food as Roots Award Celebration February 28, 2006 at YIVO, New York, NY.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Gathering
Reminiscences of a Refugee - November 1, 1996
Who Were We - presented at the 10th Anniversary of the IMM - 1972
Ode to Price Controls - 1971