NOTICE OF DISCIPLINARY ACTION

MEMBER:

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

CME RULES:

561. Submission of Large Trader Positions And Volume Threshold Accounts (In Part)

561.A. Large Trader Reporting

Clearing members, omnibus accounts and foreign brokers shall electronically submit to the Exchange a daily large trader position report of all positions required to be reported as set forth in the Position Limit, Position Accountability and Reportable Level Table, in the Interpretations Section at the end of Chapter 5. Positions at or above the reportable level in a particular expiration month of a futures contract, or in all puts or in all calls of a particular option contract expiration month, are required to be reported. For an account with reportable positions in a particular contract, all positions, regardless of size, in any contract month and in any contract that aggregates with that contract must be reported.

811. Position Change Data

Position change data must be submitted to the Clearing House each trading day not later than the time specified by the Clearing House. Position change data will be in such form and contain such information as prescribed by the Clearing House. When requested, the identification of accounts will be made available to the Financial and Regulatory Surveillance Department.

854. Concurrent Long and Short Positions (in part)

C. Clearing members which, pursuant to this rule, carry concurrent long and short positions, must report to the Exchange both sides as open positions. When either side or both sides are reduced, the open positions as reported to the Exchange must be reduced accordingly, and, pursuant to Rule 806, may not subsequently be re-opened at the Exchange.

FINDINGS:

Pursuant to an offer of settlement, in which Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. neither admitted nor denied the Rule violations or factual findings upon which the penalty is based, on July 16, 2024, a Panel of the CME Business Conduct Committee (“Panel”) found that on March 13, 2023, Citigroup’s back-office accounting platform failed to maintain records of cleared trades after its settlement platform reached an upper limit of traded contracts due to extremely high trading volume. As a result, from that date through April 27, 2023, Citigroup: (1) submitted inaccurate large trader position reports to the Exchange; (2) failed to provide the Exchange with large trader corrections; and (3) failed to submit position change data to the Clearing House in a timely manner. When Citigroup resolved the issue, it could not provide the Exchange with postdated corrections to those reports.

These inaccurate and untimely reports included positions in various contract months of E-mini S&P MidCap futures, E-mini Russell 1000 Growth Index futures, E-mini Russell 1000 Value Index futures, E-mini Russell 2000 futures, E-mini Materials, Financial, Industrial, Technology, Consumer Staples, Real Estate, and Utilities Select Sector futures, Eurodollar futures, E-mini S&P futures and options on futures, EUR/USD Monthly options, Lean Hog futures and options, Live Cattle futures, One-Month SOFR futures, One-Year Mid-Curve options on Three-Month SOFR futures, S&P GSCI ER Index Swaps (Cleared OTC), S&P 500 Annual Dividend Index futures, S&P 500 Quarterly Dividend Index futures, S&P 500 Total Return Index futures, Swiss Franc/U.S. Dollar futures, Nikkei/Yen futures, GBP/USD Monthly options, JPY/USD Monthly options, E-mini S&P End-of-Month options, Three-Month SOFR futures and options, Three-Year Mid-Curve options on Three-Month SOFR futures, Two-Year Mid-Curve options on Three-Month SOFR futures, E-mini S&P Weekly options, and E-mini Nasdaq-100 Weekly options.

The Panel found that as a result of the foregoing, Citigroup violated CME Rules 561 and 811.

Additionally, the Panel found that on multiple trade dates from March 13, 2023, through April 27, 2023, Citigroup submitted adjustments to re-open positions in Eurodollar futures, Lean Hog futures, Live Cattle futures, One-Month SOFR futures, and Three-Month SOFR futures and options. The Panel found that Citigroup violated CME Rule 854.C.

PENALTY:

In accordance with the settlement offer, the Panel ordered Citigroup to pay a fine in the amount of $130,000 in connection with this case and companion cases NYMEX 23-1708, COMEX 23-1708, and CBOT 23-1708 ($30,000 allocated to CME).