Amendments to Expiration Time on Last Trading Day of Certain Options on CME Foreign Exchange (FX) Futures Contracts

Effective Sunday, September 9, 2018 for trade date Monday, September 10, 2018, and pending all relevant Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulatory review periods, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (“CME” or “Exchange”) will amend the expiration time on the last trading day of the certain options on the Foreign Exchange (“FX”) futures contracts (the “Contracts”) in Appendix A.  Specifically, CME will change the expiry time on the last trading day of the Contracts from 2:00 pm Chicago time to 9:00 am Chicago time for all option contracts expiring after Sunday, June 9, 2019.  The Exchange will implement this change on the said effective date to all newly-listed option contract expirations with zero open interest which shall be listed for trading on the CME Globex electronic trading system and for submission for clearing on CME ClearPort.

Questions regarding this notice may be directed to:

Asia

Ravi Pandit                     +65 6593 5562                      Ravi.Pandit@cmegroup.com

Europe

Paul Houston                  +44 20 3379 3355                 Paul.Houston@cmegroup.com

Divay Malhotra                +44 20 3379 3796                 Divay.Malhotra@cmegroup.com

U.S.

Matthew Gierke               +1 312 930 8543                   Matthew.Gierke@cmegroup.com

Craig LeVeille                  +1 312 454 5301                   Craig.LeVeille@cmegroup.com

Kevin McMillin                 +1 312 930 8264                   Kevin.McMillin@cmegroup.com

Beau Parker                    +1 312 634 1581                   Beau.Parker@cmegroup.com

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