Clearing House Advisory Notices
To | Clearing Member Firms; Chief Financial Officers; Back Office Managers
From | CME Clearing
Subject | Important: Final 4 weeks for Russell 2000 contracts
Notice Date | 2008-08-19
Notice Number | 08-187
Effective Date | 2008-09-19
On September 19, 2008, CME Group’s contractual listing rights to the Russell 2000 index contracts end, and these products no longer will be available at CME Group. Although we appreciate your continued support of the contracts at CME Group (currently at 96 percent of volume and a similar share of open interest), we want to ensure that you’re informed of all of the resources available to ease the migration to other CME Group products or to the other market center. Over the last year, we’ve taken several steps to help minimize the impact on customers who need to transition open interest. For the full text of this advisory...