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Richer than GodIf you're begging for coins this week you could do a lot worse than try your sob story on CME's dashing chief executive Craig Donohue, who has just decided to divest himself of 22,500 shares in the exchange. As you're probably aware, and as the Merc never tires of telling us, the share price has being doing pretty well recently. In fact, at recent prices, Donohue is in line for a tasty windfall of almost $4m. Don't spend it all in one shop, Craig. However, there's more: apparently this holding represents just 15% of Donohue's current stash of shares and share options - nice work if you can get it. I start to see why CBoT is looking increasingly keen on an IPO; no doubt Board of Trade executives would love to get their teeth into that sort of pay-off (not that they would do anything but the...

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