• RFC Functionality Available for All CBOT Interest Rate Options Products-Effective Sunday, March 29, 2009

      • To
      • Clearing Member Firms; Chief Financial Officers; Back Office Managers
      • From
      • CME Clearing
      • #
      • 09-95
      • Notice Date
      • 12 March 2009
      • Effective Date
      • 29 March 2009
    • Effective Sunday, March 29, 2009 (trade date March 30), RFC functionality on CME Globex® will be made available for all CBOT interest rate options and options spreads (a.k.a. Exchange Defined Spreads), subject to the same pre-execution communication rules applicable to CME interest rate options.
       
      Request for Cross (RFC) functionality, which allows a buy order and a sell order to be entered on a single ticket, is currently available for CME interest rate options trades on CME Globex, which result from allowable pre-execution communications.

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. The company is comprised of four Designated Contract Markets (DCMs). 
Further information on each exchange's rules and product listings can be found by clicking on the links to CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX.

© 2025 CME Group Inc. All rights reserved.