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Long-term Investments	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2021
Long-term Investments [Abstract]
Long-term Investments	LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS The company maintains various long-term investments as described below. The investments are recorded in other assets on the consolidated balance sheets. DME Holdings Limited. The company owns an approximately 50% interest in DME Holdings Limited (DME Holdings), and accounts for its investment in DME Holdings using the equity method of accounting. The company's investment in DME Holdings was $13.7 million at December 31, 2021. The company and DME Holdings maintain an agreement for Dubai Mercantile Exchange futures contracts to be exclusively traded on the CME Globex platform. OSTTRA. In January 2021, the company announced that it agreed with IHS Markit to combine their post-trade services into a new joint venture. The joint venture, OSTTRA, was launched in September 2021. OSTTRA will perform trade processing and risk mitigation services. The company contributed the net assets of its optimization business, which included Traiana, TriOptima and Reset, to the new joint venture in exchange for $112.5 million in cash and a 50% equity interest in OSTTRA. In September 2021, the company deconsolidated its optimization business. The company recognized a net gain of $400.7 million on the transaction in other non-operating income on the consolidated statements of net income during 2021, which included a $343.5 million gain on the deconsolidation in the third quarter and a $57.2 million gain on the final settlement of the transaction in the fourth quarter. The deconsolidation primarily included $1.1 billion of intangible assets, $0.2 billion of goodwill and $0.2 billion of deferred tax liabilities. The company's investment in OSTTRA was $1.4 billion at December 31, 2021. The company accounts for its investment using the equity method of accounting. S&P/DJI Indices LLC. The company owns a 27% interest in S&P/Dow Jones Indices LLC (S&P/DJI) and accounts for its investment in S&P/DJI using the equity method of accounting. The company's investment in S&P/DJI was $986.5 million at December 31, 2021. The company has long-term exclusive licensing agreements with S&P/DJI to list products based on the Standard & Poor's Indices and Dow Jones Indices. Shanghai CFETS-NEX International Money Broking Co., Ltd. The company owns a 33% interest in Shanghai CFETS-NEX International Money Broking Co., Ltd. (CFETS) and accounts for its investment in CFETS using the equity method of accounting. The company's investment in CFETS was $38.8 million at December 31, 2021.

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The entire disclosure for equity method investments and joint ventures. Equity method investments are investments that give the investor the ability to exercise significant influence over the operating and financial policies of an investee. Joint ventures are entities owned and operated by a small group of businesses as a separate and specific business or project for the mutual benefit of the members of the group.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2196965

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