Minimum Price Increment Change, Settlement DPL and BTIC Listing (USD-Denominated Ibovespa Futures)

Minimum Price Increment Change, Settlement DPL and BTIC Listing

Effective Sunday, October 19, 2014 for trade date Monday, October 20, 2014 and pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods, please be advised that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CMEE) will amend the minimum price increment and BTIC daily settlement price increment for the USD-DENOMINATED IBOVESPA futures contract. 

The minimum tick is changing from 25 index points ($25 per contract) to 5 index points ($5 per contract)

In addition, CME will allow Basis Trade at Index Close (BTIC) Block Trades for USD-DENOMINATED IBOVESPA futures to be reported on CME ClearPort (Clearing Code IBV, BTIC symbol IBB), to the GCC or via Front End Clearing.

The BTIC Block Trade price must have a basis or price increment stated in standard size ticks (minimum price increments for basis) of the contract. Note, however, that trades completed based on the daily closing Bovespa Index (Ibovespa) value will be cleared in increments of 0.01, as the Ibovespa will be reported to a two decimal place level of precision. These positions will be created automatically by CME Clearing based on the reported BTIC block trade basis price.

Regards,

CME Clearing

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