Risk Management Services

CME Group provides the following Risk Management Services:

• Cancel on Disconnect - monitors and cancels all resting futures and options orders for the disconnected registered iLink user.
• Drop Copy Service for iLink - allows customers to receive real-time copies of CME Globex Execution Report and Acknowledgment messages as they are sent over iLink order entry system sessions on a separate, dedicated path.
• FirmSoft - front-end application provided by CME Group that allows the client to view and cancel orders and quotes.
• Risk Management and Monitoring
  • CME Account Management Service API -  provides API access to Account Management Services for CME Direct (CME Globex), CME ClearPort, and Inline Credit Controls (ICC) accounts.
  • Account Management Service - used by Clearing Member, Execution and Trading Firms to create, view and manage accounts associated with CME Globex, Inline Credit Controls (ICC), Over The Counter (OTC) and CME Direct.
  • EBS Risk Management: Bilateral Risk Administrators and Prime Risk Administrators can manage credit relationships, configure risk limits and access other credit functionality. Read-only access is also available.
  • Entity Risk Management - used by Clearing and Execution Firm administrators to manage user, firm and product-level risk CME Group products traded electronically on the Central Limit Order Book and pre-negotiated trades
  • Risk Monitor - dashboard to view and access Account Management Service (AMS) and Entity Risk Management (ERM) summary details
  • Mass Quote Protection Service - user selected function that, in certain situations, can automatically cancel resting quotes and time-out for user specified Group Codes, Product Line and Aggregate Product Lines.

• CME Group Risk Management Tools is a front-end risk management service that provides:
  
  • CME Globex Credit Controls (GC2) - allows risk manager to set pre-execution credit control limits on futures and options.
  • Risk Management Interface (RMI) -  provides a GUI and an API to block/prevent or unblock/allow orders and cross-requests from being entered or modified by Execution Firm accounts.
  • Kill Switch - provides a Globex Orders Kill function for the following levels: Legal Clearing Entity, Execution Firm, and Sender Comp ID. 
  • Access Manager - positively permission accounts so MAC products may be traded during the MAC pre-settlement blocked window.

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 The following table shows which risk management features are available to which entity from the given application.