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CME Clearing Notice: May 13, 2013
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- 13-224
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- Notice Date
- 17 May 2013
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- Effective Date
- 17 May 2013
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Topics in this issue include:
As previously announced, CME Group will allow a reduced tick increment for calendar spread trades for Euro FX/GBP Cross Rate (RP) and Euro FX/JPY Cross Rate (RY) effective May 20th 2013. As a result of this change, the price format will change on the text version of the Settlement Price File and SPAN file. The changes are currently in the New Release Environment and will become effective in Production May 20th, 2013.Settlement Price FormatCurrent ProductionProduction May 20thEuro FX/GBP Cross Rate (RP)84865848650Euro FX/JPY Cross Rate (RY)13223132230Effective Sunday, May 12, 2013, for trade date Monday, May 13, 2013, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX or EXCHANGE) will remove strike prices for Henry Hub Natural Gas European Financial Option (Clearing Code LN/Globex Code LNE). Specifically, NYMEX is removing 0.01 strike prices with no open interest that have never traded from CME Globex, the NYMEX Trading Floor and from CME ClearPort. Market participants can still dynamically create 0.01 strike prices on the NYMEX Trading Floor and on deals submitted for clearing on CME ClearPort.Information ContactsCMEGroup.com InquiriesCustomer Service(800) 331-3332General InformationProducts & Services(312) 930-8213Clearing House(312) 207-2525Globex InformationGlobal Command Center(312) 456-2391Performance Bond InformationRisk Management Dept.(312) 648-3888Position LimitsMarket Regulation(312) 341-7970Clearing FeesClearing Fee Hotline(312) 648-5470Effective Sunday, May 12, 2013 for trade date Monday, May 13, 2013, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX or EXCHANGE) will amend the strike price interval forHenry Hub Natural Gas European Option(Clearing Code LN/Globex Code LNE). Specifically, the strike price interval will increase from the current 0.01 for pre-listed strike prices to 0.05 on CME Globex, the NYMEX Trading Floor and for submission for clearing on CME ClearPort. Dynamic strike price creation at 0.01 intervals is still available on the NYMEX Trading Floor and for submission for clearing on CME ClearPort.Information ContactsCMEGroup.com InquiriesCustomer Service(800) 331-3332General InformationProducts & Services(312) 930-8213Clearing House(312) 207-2525Globex InformationGlobal Command Center(312) 456-2391Performance Bond InformationRisk Management Dept.(312) 648-3888Position LimitsMarket Regulation(312) 341-7970Clearing FeesClearing Fee Hotline(312) 648-5470CME Clearing Europe has published Clearing Notice 13-35, detailing the testing process in the New Release environment for the CME Europe exchange.The main CME Clearing Europe page for its clearing advisories is located at:Clearing Notice 13-35 is located at:Appendix 1 to Clearing Notice 13-35 is located at:The appendix contains detailed specifications for each CME Europe product needed for configuring the product in bookkeeping systems.For more information please contact CME Clearing Europe at:Group Helpdesk: +44 20 3379 3131Group Email: ClearingSupport_London@cmeclearingeurope.comDeliveriesListed in the linked advisory notice are the relevant delivery dates for May 2013 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, NYMEX, and DME contracts.Beginning with the July 2013 Hard Red Winter Wheat (KW) contract, the HRW Wheat delivery process will be fully integrated into Deliveries Plus. The functionality will allow clearing firms to manage the delivery process through the user interfaces. The functionality will include the following:- Wheat registration
- Long date reporting
- Intent Submission
- Assignment Processing
- Reports
- Invoicing
As part of the integration, paper wheat receipts will be converted into electronic receipts through E-Grain. Any firm anticipating delivery in the July 2013 contract month must convert the paper receipts to electronic. Beginning June 3, 2013, clearing firms holding paper receipts can submit original receipts to the Kansas City Board of Trade Office located at 4800 Main Street, Suite 303, Kansas City, MO 64112 for conversion. The paper receipts will be cancelled and a new electronic receipt will be provided. For further information on the conversion of receipts process please refer to the following Special Executive report dated April 15, 2013:In addition, firms submitting long dates via the long date file will be able to submit KCB Hard Red Winter Wheat long dates under exchange CBT on the file. The file will be processed and long dates will be stored under the KCB product exchange.Storage for HRW Wheat receipts will be managed between clearing firms and clearing agents of facilities. However, clearing firms may manage the storage paid through date of inventory in Deliveries Plus. Storage for HRW receipts must be current up to the first calendar day of each contract delivery month. For the July 2013 contracts, the storage must be paid through June 30, 2013.Please be advised the migration of the live cattle application to Deliveries Plus has been delayed. For the June 2013 live cattle contract, clearing firms should use the existing live cattle application. Beginning with the August 2013 live cattle contract month, firm may use the live cattle functionality in Deliveries Plus.Clearing firms may still test the new live cattle application in the New Release environment. The migration of Live Cattle to Deliveries Plus offers new and improved features to clearing member firms. Some of the features include:· Ability to manage delivery scheduling through the Delivery Schedules feature in Deliveries Plus.· Email confirmations for actions completed throughout the delivery process.· Improved firm management functionality for feedlots.If a firm needs to access to the New Release environment, please complete the access request form http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/files/onlineaccess.pdf and fax to Firm Support 312.604-9450.If there are any questions, please contact Deliveries at 312.930.3172 or email clearinghousedelivteam@cmegroup.com .The listed Stockyards and Slaughter Plants at this link have been approved for deliveries against the CME Group Live Cattle futures contract from February 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014. Delivery point information and contact numbers are listed for your reference.If there are any questions, please contact the Deliveries Unit at (312) 930-3172.Please be advised that beginning Monday, May 20, 2013, CME Clearing will utilize a revised price curve for the CME cleared Interest Rate Swap Products.The price curve currently used for CME cleared OIS swaps utilizes OIS swap inputs for tenors zero to 30 years. The curve is utilized to settle cleared OIS swaps and in the margin model.The revision will use the OIS curve for tenor inputs zero to two years – but use a basis curve of OIS/Libor for tenor inputs for after two years out to 30 years. The change is designed to incorporate the most liquid instruments currently available for curve construction.The impact of the proposed change to the pricing of currently cleared OIS Swaps is minimal.If you should have any questions please contact Jay Zhu at 212-299-2597 or at jay.zhu@cmegroup.comCommodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) Regulation 45.6 requires that each counterparty to a swap must be identified in all recordkeeping and swap data reporting by means of a single Legal Entity Identifier or “LEI”. The CFTC has designated the “CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier” or “CICI” available at http://www.ciciutility.org as the current required identifier system for swap transactions. [Please note that this requirement does not apply to futures, including block futures, transactions. In addition, this requirement does not at this time apply to natural persons and non-US persons.]There are two methods by which CME Clearing Members may include an LEI/CICI on swaps submitted for clearing at CME Clearing.(1) Trade-by-trade submission: CME’s ClearPort API supports the submission of the LEI/CICI which may be supplied to CME on a cleared swap trade-by-trade basis. For assistance on properly populating this field, please contact CME Client Services (contact details below).(2) Registration of CICIs: A market participant may contact the CME OTC Registration Team (contact details below) to register its LEI/CICI with CME Clearing. This value will be automatically included in every subsequent and past trade submitted for clearing by that particular market participant.CME Clearing Members are reminded that the compliance date for use of the appropriate LEI/CICI has passed and that all swap counterparty data submitted to CME Clearing must contain an appropriate LEI/CICI at the time of submission.CME Clearing Members and swap market participants with questions may contact either:CME OTC Registration Team1.212.299.2670US Toll Free – 1.800.438.8616London Toll Free – 0800.898013CME Client Services Team1.312.338.7112As per the normal review of acceptable collateral and limits, CME Clearing is making the below change regarding the clearing member firm maximum limit for Category 3 collateral. The change is pending all regulatory review periods.Collateral accepted by CME Clearing is categorized as noted below. Currently, the maximum allowable limit for utilization of Category 3 Assets is the lesser of a) 40 % of core margin requirements and concentration requirements per origin and asset account or b) $3 billion per Clearing Member Firm across all settlement accounts.Effective with the RTH cycle on Friday, May 10, 2013, the maximum allowable limit for utilization of Category 3 Assets will be the lesser of a) 40 % of core margin requirements and concentration requirements per origin and asset account or b) $5 billion per Clearing Member Firm across all settlement accounts.Category 1 assets have no requirement type limits. Category 2 assets have a maximum allowable limit of 40% of core margin requirements and concentration requirements per Clearing Member Firm across all settlement accounts.Please refer to the website link below for details on individual asset type limits and product class restrictions.Category 1 Assets:- U.S. Cash
- U.S. Treasuries
- IEF2 Money Market Fund Program
Category 2 Assets:- U.S. Government Agencies
- Select Mortgage Backed Securities
- IEF5 Specialized Cash Program
- Letters of Credit
Category 3 Assets:- Foreign Sovereign Debt (sub-limit of $1 billion per clearing member firm)
- Gold (sub-limit of $500 million per clearing member firm)
- IEF4 Specialized Collateral Program
- Stocks
- TIPS (sub-limit of $1 billion per clearing member firm)
Call CME Clearing for availability of Foreign Cash deposits.Refer to the website http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/financial-and-collateral-management/ for further detail regarding acceptable collateral, haircuts, and limits. For questions about requirements, please call Risk Management hotline at 312-634-3888 and questions about collateral can be directed to the Financial Unit hotline at 312-207-2594.CME Group Contactscmegroup.com InquiriesCustomer Service(800) 331-3332General InformationProducts & Services(312) 930-8213Clearing House(312) 207-2525CME Globex InformationCME Global Command Center(312) 456-2391Global Account ManagementU.S.(312) 634-8700Europe44 203 379 3754Asia65 6593 5574Performance Bond InformationRisk Management Dept.(312) 648-3888Position LimitsMarket Regulation(312) 341-7970Clearing FeesClearing Fee Hotline(312) 648-5470Risk ManagementRisk Management Hotline(312) 634-3888CollateralFinancial Unit Hotline(312) 207-2594DeliveriesDeliveries Unit(312) 930-3172Clearing Customer Service(312) 207-2525
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