• CME Reference Data API Updates

      • To
      • Reference Data API Customers
      • From
      • Global Market Solutions and Services
      • #
      • 20190925
      • Notice Date
      • 25 September 2019
      • Effective Date
      • 25 September 2019

    • Effective Sunday, October 13 (trade date Monday, October 14), in response to customer requests the following CME Reference Data API Updates will be implemented:

      The following attributes will be added:

      Product or Instrument Attribute Name Description Type
      Product isSyntheticProduct Boolean flag to identify Synthetic products ("Y", "N"). String
      Instrument tccAlias TCC alias String
      Instrument itcAlias ITC alias String
      Instrument gbxAlias CME Globex alias String
      Instrument clrAlias Clearing alias String
      Instrument pxUomCcy Price unit of measure currency String
      Instrument uomCcy Unit of measure currency String
      Instrument lastIntDate Last intent date Date
      Instrument fnlInvDate Final inventory date Date
      Instrument firstPositionDate First position date Date
      Instrument isTasProduct Boolean flag to identify whether the overlying product is a TAS product ("Y", "N"). String
      Instrument isBticProduct Boolean flag to identify whether the overlying product is a BTIC product ("Y", "N"). String
      Instrument isTamProduct Boolean flag identify whether the overlying product is a TAM product ("Y", "N"). String
      Instrument isSyntheticInstrument Boolean flag to identify Synthetic instruments ("Y", "N"). String

      A "type" attribute will be added to the relationship record for underlyingInstruments and overlyingInstruments to indicate whether the underlying is a "TAS," "TAM," or "BTIC". Type will be "null" if the underlying is none of these.

      Example of relationships for TAS product:

      {
        "_embedded" : {
          "relationships" : [ {
            "marketSide" : null,
            "legNumber" : null,
            "ratio" : null,
            "type" : "TAS",
            "_links" : {
              "underlyingInstrument" : {
                "href" : "_/v1/instruments/UNEE4CUUUUUU"
              },
              "overlyingInstrument" : {
                "href" : "_/v1/instruments/A5JMRD555555"
              }
            }
          } ]
        },
        "_links" : {
          "self" : {
            "href" : "_/v1/instruments/A5JMRD555555/underlyings?page=0&size=20"
          }
        },
        "_metadata" : {
          "size" : 20,
          "totalElements" : 1,
          "totalPages" : 1,
          "number" : 0,
          "type" : "page"
        }
      }

      These enhancements will be available for testing in New Release on Tuesday, October 1.

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