Clearing  House Advisory Notices
To Clearing Member Firms and Back Office Managers
From Clearing House Department
Subject New Block and EFP application
Notice Date 2004-05-27
Notice Number 04-96
Effective Date  

On June 11th, 2004, we will begin moving processing for "Privately-Negotiated Transactions" -- i.e., Blocks and EFP's -- into the new Front-End Clearing (FEC) application.  Specifically, on June 11th, the new application will be used:

  • for CBOT products:  Block (Wholesale) trades, and EFP (Exchange for Physical), EFR (Exchange for Risk) and EFS (Exchange for Swap) transactions
  • for CME products:  Block trades
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