IMPORTANT: CME Clearing's LSOC Implementation Plan

CME recognizes that with the Thursday, November 8, 2012 deadline for LSOC implementation fast approaching, it is important that the industry receive clear specifications from CME, sufficient to clarify important details of our implementation of LSOC.  At the same time, CME remains committed to listening to the industry so that our implementation plan can incorporate sensible feedback to ease implementation burdens as much as reasonably possible.     

CME will implement LSOC in a two-phase process.  As previously indicated, LSOC will apply to FCM clearing member firms of CME holding customer positions in cleared swaps.

The first phase will begin on Monday, November 5, 2012.  In this initial period, LSOC will be implemented in an unallocated excess mode.

The second phase will begin on Monday, February 4, 2013.  On that date, CME clearing firms may begin operating in a client-specific excess mode.  Firms will have until Monday May 27, 2013 to complete the transition; beginning on that date, all CME clearing firms with customer positions in cleared swaps must operate in a client-specific mode.

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