• UPDATED: FECPlus Testing and Production Deployment Schedule

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      • Clearing Member Firms, Back Office Managers, Service Providers
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      • CME Clearing
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      • 12-186
      • Notice Date
      • 01 May 2012
      • Effective Date
      • 01 May 2012
    • Following is the UPDATED deployment schedule for FECPlus in chronological Order:
       
      ·   Testing for the FPL-compliant FIXML 5.0 API for ALL post-trade processing, including give-ups, average-priced give-ups, and cross-exchange allocations, is currently available in New Release.
       
      ·   Thursday, May 17, 2012: Testing for the migration of ClearPort trades to FECPlus for CME Clearing Europe (CMECE) will begin in the CMECE Certification Test Environment (CMECE CERT). NO API messaging changes for these trades.
       
      ·   Wednesday, May 23, 2012: Testing for the migration of trades from ClearPort and other Trading Platforms to FECPlus for CME/CBT/NYMEX/COMEX will begin in the Certification Test Environment (CERT). NO API messaging changes for these trades.
       
      ·   Thursday, May 24, 2012: Testing for the migration of CDS and OTCFX trades to FECPlus will begin in New Release. NO API messaging changes for these trades.
       
      ·   Wednesday, June 6, 2012: Testing for the migration of ALL post-trade processing to FECPlus for CMECE will begin in CMECE CERT using the FPL-compliant FIXML 5.0 API.
       
      ·   Monday, June 11, 2012: Production launch date for migration of trades from ClearPort to FECPlus for CMECE. NO API messaging changes.
       
      ·   Monday, July 2, 2012: Production launch date for migration of trades from ClearPort and other Trading Platforms to FECPlus for CME/CBT/NYMEX/COMEX including CDS and OTCFX. NO API messaging changes.
       
      ·   Monday, July 2, 2012: Production launch date for migration of ALL post-trade processing to FECPlus for CMECE using the FPL-compliant FIXML 5.0 API.
       
      ·   Monday, July 30, 2012: Production launch date for migration of ALL post-trade processing, including give-ups, average-priced give-ups, and cross-exchange allocations to FECPlus for CME/CBT/NYMEX/COMEX using the FPL-compliant FIXML 5.0 API.
       
      ·   Q3 2012: Migration of Electronic Trades to FECPlus. Specific dates and details will be disseminated as they become available.
       
      If you have any questions or require further information please contact CME Clearing at 312-207-2525 or ccs@cmegroup.com.
       

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