Comment / When CME went dark... terror in the shadows for IT logistics execs

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When a cooling failure inside a suburban Illinois data center froze the world’s largest futures exchange* at the end last month, traders saw chaos.

(*And finance people wondered ’should you be worried?’ about CME Group-related exposure, ’where risk meets opportunity’)

Now forget the latest developments (not much out there since a ‘cooling issue’ was disclosed) –> supply chain executives should see something else: a very critical warning about who really controls the infrastructure underpinning global logistics, and how fragile that infrastructure has ...