• CME Clearing Notice: Monday, April 28, 2014

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      • Notice Date
      • 28 April 2014
      • Effective Date
      • 28 April 2014

    • Topics in this issue include:

           Critical System Updates

      ·        FECPlus Migration Phase 2: Electronic Trade Management (ETM)

      ·        NEW: True Average Price Indicator on Sub-Allocations

           Deliveries

      ·        CME Group Delivery Dates for May 2014

      ·        Euro-Denominated Deliverable Interest Rate Swap Futures Testing and Delivery Intent Template Requirements

      ·        2014 Approved List of Live Cattle Stockyards & Slaughter Plants

           Events & Announcements

      ·        Review of Collateral Haircuts Advisory

      ·        NEW:  Announcing the CME Collateral API

      ·        Contact Information

       

      Critical System Updates

      FECPlus Migration Phase 2: Electronic Trade Management (ETM)

      The next phase of the FECPlus migration, Electronic Trade Management (ETM), is now underway. With this migration, all electronic trades for all CME Group markets will now display in FECPlus. Pit trades, manually entered Ex-Pit trades, and Transfers will not be affected and will continue to be available in FEC Classic.  

      We are tentatively scheduling a launch date for ETM migration in mid-July, 2014. Please click here for further details.

      NEW: True Average Price Indicator on Sub-Allocations

      Please be aware that beginning June 1, 2014, for trade date June 2, 2014, a new FIXML tag will be added to Allocation Instruction Alerts and Allocation Reports. The new tag, @TrueAvgPx, will only be present when an average priced claimed allocation is sub-allocated as a give-up. It will not be present when an average priced claimed allocation is sub-allocated to the average price system. This tag represents the True Average Price without rounding, which is not currently populated anywhere on these type of messages. This tag will begin populating in the New Release environment on May 21, 2014.

      The @TrueAvgPx tag will be an interim solution. At a later date, as determined by the CMEGroup, with input from firms and service providers, the @RndPx and @AvgPx will be populated on all Allocation Instruction Alerts and Allocation Reports where:

      • @AvgPX becomes the true average price in the case of APS, or the normal give-up price in the case of a give up.  Currently this is the allocation price rounded to the exchange tick convention for the contract.
      • @RndPX becomes the allocation price rounded, if necessary, to the valid tick increment, or the normal give-up price in the case of a give up.  Currently this is the true average price and is only present in APS messages.

       

      If you have any questions or require further information please contact CME Clearing Services (CCS) at 312-207-2525 or email  ccs@cmegroup.com.

      http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/lookups/advisories/clearing/files/Chadv14-173.pdf

      Deliveries

      CME Group Delivery Dates for May 2014

      Listed at this link are the relevant delivery dates for the May 2014 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., Chicago Board
      of Trade, NYMEX, COMEX, and DME contracts.

      Euro-Denominated Deliverable Interest Rate Swap Futures Testing and Delivery Intent Template Requirements

      Please be advised that for the new Euro-denominated Deliverable Swap Futures (http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/deliverable-interest-rate-swap-futures.html) delivery testing is now available for the June 2014 contracts in the New Release environment. FCMs wishing to test should contact CME Clearing Deliveries to coordinate at 312-930-3172 or clearinghousedelivteam@cmegroup.com. For further details, please click here.

      2014 Approved List of Live Cattle Stockyards & Slaughter Plants

      The attached Stockyards and Slaughter Plants have been approved for deliveries against the CME Group Live Cattle futures contract from February 1, 2014 through January 31, 2015. Delivery point information and contact numbers are listed for your reference.

      See the full advisory.

      If there are any questions, please contact the Deliveries Unit at (312) 930-3172.

      Events & Announcements

      Review of Collateral Haircuts Advisory

      In conjunction with regular review of market volatility to ensure adequate collateral coverage, please find the current acceptable collateral and haircuts for CME Clearing at this link. Please note that the changes column found below indicates any near term changes to collateral and haircuts. Please see CME Clearing website for more details. http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/financial-and-collateral-management/

      Should you have any questions, please contact the Risk Management department at 312-648-3888 or the Financial Management group at 312-207-2594.

      NEW:  Announcing the CME Collateral API

      CME is pleased to announce the availability of the first phase of our Collateral Services API, both in production and in the New Release testing environment.

      The API is intended to provide clearing firms with processing efficiencies by automating their interaction with CME Clearing for collateral transactions such as deposits and withdrawals of cash or securities. The value of such efficiencies for member firms has increased together with the number of daily collateral transactions.

      For example, if a firm intends to deposit a Treasury note. It sends a message so indicating. CME will then send a message back stating, “we’ve received your request, it is valid, please stand by.” Then, after the receipt of the security is confirmed, CME will send a second message, indicating that the security has been received and that the firm now has margin credit for it. The process for a withdrawal is analogous.

      The first phase of the API is available now and uses CSV-format datafiles  (You send CME a file, and get a file back). The specification is at:

      http://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/risk-management/files/cme-collateral-api-csv.pdf

      http://www.cmegroup.com/tools-information/lookups/advisories/clearing/files/Chadv14-175.pdf

      Contact Information

      CME Group Contacts

      cmegroup.com Inquiries

      Customer Service

      (800) 331-3332

      General Information

      Products & Services

      (312) 930-8213

      Clearing House

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      CME Global Command Center

      Global Account Management

      U.S.

      (800) 438-8616

      Europe

      +0800 898 013

      Asia

      +65 6532 5010

      Performance Bond Information

      Risk Management Dept.

      (312) 648-3888

      Position Limits

      Market Regulation

      (312) 341-7970

      Clearing Fees

      Clearing Fee Hotline

      (312) 648-5470

      Risk Management

      Risk Management Hotline

      (312) 634-3888

      Collateral

      Financial Unit Hotline

      (312) 207-2594

      Deliveries

      Deliveries Unit

      (312) 930-3172

      Clearing Customer Service

      (312) 207-2525

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