TO:                  Chief Financial Officers                                                                      #21-01

                        Chief Compliance Officers

DATE:         December 1, 2021

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:

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 attachment included in this message. 

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

CME Group Inc.

Attn: [INSERT NAME]

20 S. Wacker Drive

Chicago, IL 60606

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