CME Group (CME) will pay a special dividend of $2.50 per share in 2019. Earlier this year the company raised its quarterly dividend by 7.1 percent from 70 cents to 75 cents per share.

The special dividend is payable January 15, 2020, to shareholders of record as of December 27, 2019. The regular annualized dividend rate of $3.00 per share yields 1.5% at a stock price of $204.59.

CME Group enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.