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CME Group Inc. told the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that CME’s ban on a type of trade that would help rival ELX Futures LP easily capture business from CME is not anti-competitive.
In a 70-page letter posted on the regulator’s website on Friday, CME asked the CFTC to reconsider its endorsement of so-called exchange for futures trades, or EFFs, repeating its view that there is no compelling reason for it to allow them. Get the full story »
CME Group Inc., the biggest U.S. operator of futures exchanges, may need to add more staff to adequately oversee its markets, regulators said on Wednesday after a review of CME’s enforcement activities.
CME should review its staff size, report to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission about what it found, and take ongoing steps to make sure staff is “increased appropriately when necessary” to handle more volume and any other relevant developments, the CFTC said after its review. Get the full story »
CME Group Inc., which operates one of the world’s biggest clearinghouses, is planning a soft launch for interest-rate swaps clearing by the end of 2010, its chief financial officer said Tuesday.
CME staffers are working daily with dealers and buy-side market participants to prepare for the launch, CME Chief Financial Officer Jamie Parisi said at a Barclays Capital conference for analysts and investors. Get the full story »
U.S. derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. inadvertently placed dummy test orders into its active energy and metals markets on the CME Globex platform for about 6 minutes on Monday afternoon. Get the full story »
The top U.S. securities regulator said on Tuesday that the follow-up report on what might have caused the May “flash crash” is expected by the end of September. Get the full story »
Derivatives exchange operator CME Group Inc. said Thursday its August volume averaged 11.7 million contracts per day, a 15 percent increase from a year ago.
Total volume was 258 million contracts, with 82 percent traded electronically.
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