On December 14, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission requested comment on proposed amendments submitted by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) under CFTC Regulation 40.10.

The proposed amendments would create a new type of clearing membership, the “direct funding participant” (DFP). A DFP would be allowed to clear trades for its own account directly with

On October 31, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and its clearing members that are registered futures commission merchants with regard to foreign futures contracts currently listed or that will be listed in the future for trading on the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) and cleared by the

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME) has submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a petition for an order pursuant to Section 4d of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) whereby CME and its clearing members that are registered futures commission merchants would be permitted to hold, in accounts segregated in accordance with Section 4d of

On June 14, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published an update to its list of third-country central counterparties (List of Third-Country CCPs) that are recognized under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) to offer services and activities in the European Union. The update includes the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME), which was recognized as of June 13, 2016. Table 2 in the List of Third-Country CCPs sets out the classes of financial instruments covered under each CCP’s recognition.
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CME Group has issued a market regulation advisory notice related to block trades that combines and supersedes similar advisory notices issued by (1) the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and (2) the New York Mercantile Exchange and COMEX. The combined market regulation advisory notice, which will be effective on May 29