Topics in this issue include: Critical System Updates CME Globex Performance Enhancements - Starting December 8 New Public Source IPs for Certification and New Release Environment - January 24 KCBT Product Migration to CBOT - December 8 New CME Globex Market Data Protocol MDP 3.0 New Release Availability New Functionality CME Europe on CME Globex Product Changes Fuel Futures Listing Cycle Change - This Week Energy Listing Cycle Expansion - This Tuesday New Brent Futures & Options Last Trade Date Change - December 8 FIX tag 55-Symbol Changes for Synthetic Futures - January 11 Events and Announcements Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule - November 28 Critical System Updates CME Globex Performance Enhancements Starting Sunday, December 8 (trade date Monday, December 9), performance enhancements will be launched on the following CME Globex markets. With this launch, internal testing indicates: iLink latency will improve up to 30%. Per event, iLink fill notices (tag 35-MsgType=8, tag 39-OrdStatus=1 or 2) will be published before or at the same time as the last market data trade message For each individual trade, iLink fill notices will be published before or at the same time as the associated market data trade messages These enhancements are part of our ongoing efforts to provide best-in-class technology and service on CME Globex. December 8, 2013 CME Equity futures excluding E-mini S&P; tag 1300-MarketSegmentID=68 December 15, 2013 NYMEX Non-Crude Energy futures; tag 1300=78 NYMEX and COMEX Metals and Alternative Market futures; tag 1300=76 KCBT Product Migration to CBOT Effective Sunday, December 8 (trade date Monday, December 9), Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) products will migrate from a KCBT DCM (Designated Contract Market) to Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) DCM, subject to regulatory review and approval. The current governmental shutdown may impact the launch date. These products will use the same Symbol (tag 55) and SecurityGroup (tag 1151) as they do today. With this change, the value in tag 207-SecurityExchange and Market Data Platform channels will be updated as follows: KCBT Product Migration to CBOT Product tag 1151-SecurityGroup tag 55-Symbol Current tag 207-SecurityExchange New tag 207-SecurityExchange Current MDP Channel New MDP Channel KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Futures KE KE XKBT XCBT 120 111 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Options OKE OK XKBT XCBT 121 112 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Short-Dated New Crop Options KWE OK XKBT XCBT 121 112 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Weekly Options OE1-OE5 OK XKBT XCBT 121 112 MGEX-KCBT Wheat Spread Options MKW M6 XKBT XCBT 121 112 MGEX-KCBT Wheat Spread Synthetic Futures WMK 08 XKBT XCBT 120 111 KCBT Wheat vs. CBOT Wheat Inter-commodity Spread KE KB KBCB XCBT 120 111 MGEX Wheat vs. KCBT Wheat Inter-Exchange Spread MWE MK MGKB MGCB 118 118 Please Note: For the December 8 launch, customers will not have to cancel their Good 'Till Cancel (GTC) and Good 'Till Date (GTD) orders for KCBT futures and options. After 16:30 CT on Friday, December 6, all remaining GTC and GTD orders for these products will be moved to their respective new channels and retain their priority in the book. Customers are responsible for verifying their working orders and making modifications as needed during the pre-open on Sunday, December 8. KCBT Product Migration to CBOT - ITC Product ITC Code Current Exchange ID New Exchange ID Current MDP Channel New MDP Channel KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Futures KW K B 101 100 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Options HC/HP K B 101 100 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat Short-Dated New Crop Options KWO K B 101 100 KC Hard Red Winter (HRW) Weekly Options OK1-OK5 K B 101 100

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

New Public Source IPs for Certification and New Release Environment
At customers’ requests to increase network flexibility, the Certification and New Release Environments will move from private to public source IPs for iLink, Drop Copy and FIX/FAST market data channels at the close of business on Friday, January 24, 2014. If a firewall or network device is configured with the source IP information, please correct your configuration to use the entire range of eligible addresses.

iLink

• Customers will receive the new public IPs for iLink via an AutoCert+ generated email prior to Friday, January 24, 2014.

Drop Copy

• All testing Drop Copy ID in the Certification and New Release Environments will be deleted on Friday, January 24, 2014. Please contact  Global Account Management to obtain new Drop Copy IDs to access Drop Copy testing environments.

FIX/FAST Market Data Channels

• Port, multicast addresses, and source IPs for FIX/FAST market data channels are available in the config.xml file on the CME Group  FTP site. A new config.xml will be available for customer download in Certification and New Release starting Monday, December 16, 2013.

New CME Globex Market Data Protocol
CME Group is introducing Market Data Platform (MDP) 3.0, a low latency and direct data access solution designed to improve customers’ ability to process and act on real-time price information. The protocol production dates will be announced in future CME Globex and Market Data Notices.

MDP 3.0 includes:

• Simple Binary Encoding (SBE); replaces the current FAST compression model
• FIX 5.0 (SP2) Market by Price messaging formats
• Event-driven market price and trade information
• Enhanced market state dissemination
• Increased timestamp granularity
• Trade identifier on both market data and order entry messages

The  client impact assessment provides detailed functionality and messaging information.

A new MDP 3.0 certification suite will be available in AutoCert+. Customer systems receiving market data via CME Globex must complete this mandatory certification.

MDP 3.0 functional specification is now available  online. The functional specification provides the complete MDP 3.0 functionality details, whereas the client impact assessment outlines the differences in functionality between FIX/FAST and MDP 3.0.

New test versions of MDP 3.0 template and PCAP (Packet Capture) test files are currently available  online . The PCAP files will contain sample MDP 3.0 packets of Incremental Refresh (tag 35-MsgType=X) and Security Definition (tag 35-MsgType=d) messages in binary format.

Please Note: These files are for customer testing only and are subject to change without customer notice.

Please contact your  Global Account Manager with any questions or concerns in the U.S. at +1 312 634 8700, in Europe at +44 203 379 3754 or in Asia at +65 6593 5505 for additional information.

MDP 3.0 New Release Availability
Starting on Monday, November 11, MDP 3.0 will be implemented in New Release environment in  four phases. For each phase, specific MDP 3.0 channels and functionality will be available in the environment. The implementation will be cumulative therefore once a channel or type of functionality is available; it will remain in the environment.

With this release, CME Group will use new public multicast source IPs for the MDP 3.0 channels in the New Release environment. Customers must configure their firewall or network device to include the entire range of eligible addresses.

If you have any questions, please contact  Certification Support for Electronic Trading (CSET) in the U.S. +1 312 930 2322 or in Asia at +65 6593 5593 for assistance.

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of NYMEX.

 Energy Listing Cycle Expansion
Effective this Tuesday, December 3 (trade date Wednesday, December 4), the listing cycle for 55 energy futures will be expanded on CME Globex. Detailed information on the new listing rules is available  online.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of NYMEX.

GBP/USD Options Strike Price Increment Change
Effective Sunday, December 8 (trade date Monday, December 9), the strike price increment for GBP/USD options (tag 1151-SecurityGroup=6B; tag 55-Symbol=XB) will be reduce from 100 points to 50 points on CME Globex.

With these changes, the listing rules will be expanded from ± 24 ATM to ± 48 ATM for all trading maturities.

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CME.

Brent Futures & Option Last Trade Change
Effective Sunday, December 8 (for trade date Monday December 9), the last trading day will be modified for  Brent crude oil futures and options starting with the March 2016 maturity on CME Globex. With this change, the settlement price calculations will be also be modified starting with the March 2016 maturity.

Detailed information on these changes is available  online.

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

FIX tag 55-Symbol Changes for Synthetic Futures
Effective Sunday, January 11, 2014, the values for FIX tag 55-Symbol for FIX/FAST for Synthetic futures will be changed. The complete list synthetic futures are available  online.

With this change, tag 1151-Security Group for MDP 3.0 will also change and will be available upon launch of MDP 3.0

These changes will be available in New Release for customer testing for FIX/FAST and MDP 3.0 on Monday, December 9.