CME Globex Development Requirements and Assistance

Development Requirements

Every program we certify to interact with CME Globex must be designed and developed to:

• Properly receive and display all critical information about the market, particularly if a specific product or the entire market is halted during regular market hours
• Handle connectivity to CME Globex and manage trading sessions in the protocols provided. This includes:
  • Proper logon, message sequencing and weekly resets
  • The graceful handling of disconnects and reconnects
  • Not adversely impact themselves or other customers
  • Ensure that they do not adversely impact the CME Globex electronic markets at large
  • Support features and functionality critical to CME Group markets
  • Accommodate new products and new initiatives developed by CME Group
  • Quickly and easily adapt to any configuration changes without the need to make software changes such as changes in trading hours, matching algorithms or market depth

Development Assistance

You can develop and certify trading and market data applications for CME Globex. To assist and support your efforts, we provide two CME Globex testing environments:

• Certification supports testing current products, messaging and functionality
• New Release supports new product, messaging and functionality prior to production launch

AutoCert+

• Automated CME Globex certification tool
• Ensures that all trading applications conform to CME Globex specifications and adhere to CME Group requirements

CME Request Center NR/Cert

Customer self-service tool used for:

• Session management
• Company profile and user management
• Self-service injector requests

CSET

The Certification Support for Electronic Trading team (CSET) handles inquiries, issues and support requests from customers testing or certifying to the CME Globex and CME ClearPort services, including:

• Interface development, testing and certification support for CME ClearPort and Cleared trades services
• CME Globex AutoCert+ certification tool
• CME Direct
• Network connectivity for the test environments
• Market operations
• Functional, regression and market data performance testing for client applications
• End-to-end testing
• Partner Exchange testing and certification

CSET is available from 3:00 p.m. CT Sundays through 4:00 p.m. CT Fridays, in the U.S. at +1 312 930 2322, in Europe at +44 20 3379 3803 or in Asia at +65 6593 5593

Partner Exchange testing and certification is also available.

Test Environments Availability

*Please Note: Services are available from 8 pm Central Time (CT) Sunday to 4 pm CT Friday except during the maintenance windows.