About

Chicago Clearing Corporation (CCC) sits six floors over the southwest corner of Chicago’s famous Loop. All day, El trains wind just outside our windows and past the Chicago Board of Trade and the Board Options Exchange. CCC’s owner, Jim Tharin, is a long-time member and shareholder of the latter.

Jim has three decades of experience as a trader and market maker, and two decades as a class action settlement market maker. Since founding CCC in 1993, he has assembled a staff that both reflects and amplifies his own specialties. Chicago Clearing employees know markets, they know class action, and they know trade data.

We work in a brightly lit loft-space. The offices lack ceilings, and privacy. When you call us, a member of the sales staff, or the owner himself, will probably answer the call. The rest of the staff can then eavesdrop, if we feel like it. When the operations team discusses technical details with our data and IT experts, the sales guys can listen in—and chime in—from the comforts of their desks. (It’s more polite to walk over instead of shout, but who’s perfect?)

At Chicago Clearing, teamwork is a side-effect of proximity. We aren’t as likely to draft a memo or schedule a meeting about a tricky data issue, as we are to stride across the room and get to the bottom of the matter immediately. When you hire CCC, you hire an entire team to fight for your claims.

All day, the Els rumble back and forth between Chicago’s famous trading floors and past our offices. All day, every day, the staff at CCC stewards our clients claims as if they were our own. We call back and forth to each other from desk to desk like open-outcry traders over at the Board of Trade, sometimes as loudly as the El rolling by. And just like the certainty of an El passing every few minutes, Chicago Clearing Corporation is something you can count on.