TO:                  Chief Financial Officers    

                        Chief Compliance Officers

DATE:           December 9, 2020

SUBJECT:      Certified Public Accountant Confirmation Requests

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc., New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. and Commodity Exchange, Inc. receive external confirmation requests from certified public accountants during the course of their annual examinations of member firms.  To ensure confirmation requests are processed efficiently and in a timely manner, the requests should be sent to the attention of the applicable individual at the following email addresses:

Subordinated Debt Lisa Li,
Financial Coordinator, Financial and Regulatory Surveillance Department Lisa.Li@cmegroup.com

CME Group Inc.
Class A Shares Elizabeth Hausoul,
Manager, Shareholder Relations & Member Services Elizabeth.Hausoul@cmegroup.com

CME/CBOT/NYMEX/COMEX Memberships Carol Jackson,
Membership Representative, Memberships - Commercial CorporateMembershipConfirmations@cmegroup.com

CME/CBOT/NYMEX/COMEX Performance Bond, Guarantee Deposits, and Variation Settlements Molly Pluciennik, Sr. Compliance Associate,
Clearing House; or
Julia Madden, Compliance Associate, Clearing House HistoricalReportReprints@cmegroup.com

Performance Bond, Guarantee Deposits, Variation Settlements, and other clearing information will be confirmed by email using opportunistic encryption. If the certified public accountants’ email Performance Bond, Guarantee Deposits, Variation Settlements, and other clearing information will be confirmed by email using opportunistic encryption. If the certified public accountants’ email gateway does not support this type of encryption, messages will be sent as secure attachments. The certified public accountants will receive a message advising them that they have received an email containing CME Group Confidential or CME Group Highly Sensitive information. To view the information, they must click on the attachement included in this message. 

If a physical copy is required, the confirmation request should be mailed to the following addresses:

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc.                                                                                  20 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606

New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., Commodity Exchange, Inc.                                                                                                    300 Vesey St., New York, NY 10282

If you have any questions, please contact the Financial and Regulatory Surveillance Departmant at 312-930-3230.