Announcing the C360 API

The Clearing 360 application programming interface (“C360 API”) provides a new and more efficient means for traders and brokers to submit privately-negotiated trades to clearing.  The goal is to make processing easier and more straight-through for traders, brokers and clearing firms.

The new “Trade Reporter” feature of CME’s EOS Trader user interface is one of the most important applications which can write to the C360 API. Using Trade Reporter, for example, a trader can report a block trade in a Eurodollar options strategy. The API will:

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