The January 30 "EBS Market on CME Globex Notice" incorrectly stated MDP 3.0 certification is required, whereas iLink 3 certification is required.

CME FX Spot+ - April 13

† Denotes update to the article

Effective Sunday, April 13 (trade date Monday, April 14), CME Group will launch CME FX Spot Plus (CME FX Spot+), a new tradable spot FX instrument, leveraging CME FX futures and FX Link liquidity to bring together OTC spot FX and FX futures.

The FX Spot+ products will be available for the following currency pairs:  EUR/USD, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, NZD/USD, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/CHF, and USD/MXN.

All of the CME FX Spot+ products are currently available in the New Release environment for customer testing.

† iLink 3 certification is required to trade the CME FX Spot+. The new AutoCert+ supplemental test suite is currently available for customer certification.

More information on these new products and the associated messaging and functionality enhancements is available in the FX Spot+ client impact assessment. A new FX Spot+ Credit Overview is also available with credit features and details for both FX Link and FX Spot+.

The Straight Through Processing (STP) client impact assessment for CME FX Link and FX Spot+ is available.  

Pre-Launch:

Effective Sunday, March 9 (trade date Monday, March 10), CME Group will pre-launch the FX Spot+ instruments. With this pre-launch, the FX Spot+ instruments will not be tradeable, and the Security Definition (35-MsgType=d) will be the only MDP3 messages available.  

The new MDP channel 331 will utilize the schema version 13

Mock Trading Session:  

To support customer experience with the CME FX Spot+ in the CME Globex production environment, CME Group will offer customer mock trading sessions on:

  • Saturday, March 29

Customers are required to register in advance in order to participate in the mock trading sessions. Further information on the mock trading sessions will be published in future CME Globex Notices.

CME FX Spot+ Specification Update

The CME FX Spot+ client impact assessment has been updated to reflect the following updates:

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