Clearing Processing for CME Event Contracts - Effective April 04, 2022

Further to the Press Release dated March 14, 2022 (and pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods), Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (“CME”), The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. (“CBOT”), New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (“NYMEX”) and Commodity Exchange, Inc. (“COMEX”) (collectively the “Exchanges”) are providing preliminary information on the upcoming listing of Event Contract Options on certain CME Group futures on equity, foreign exchange (FX), energy and metals contracts as described in New Contract Advisory 22-127.

Although no launch date has been announced, full details about the initial set of ten contracts have been published, and the contracts will be fully live on CME’s “New Release” test environment, both for Globex and clearing, this coming Monday, April 4, 2022. Firms wishing to test processing for these new contracts in the New Release test environment may do so at any time beginning this Monday.

Click here to view the full text of the advisory

22-128