Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: SASR) is the largest bank holding company headquartered in Maryland. Its primary subsidiary Sandy Spring Bank traces its origin to 1868 making it among the oldest banking institutions in the region. Sandy Spring Bank operates a full line of financial services through a network of 43 community offices in the highly desirable market of greater Washington, D.C. including offices in Montgomery, Howard, Frederick, Carroll, Anne Arundel and Prince George's Counties in Maryland and Fairfax and Loudoun Counties in Northern Virginia. . Through an affiliation with the Allpoint ATM network, clients have free nationwide ATM access at more than 50,000 locations.

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.