Clearing Guarantee Agreement for CME® Globex® Access
Very important: CME firms must execute this agreement before becoming authorized to trade OneChicago products:

• Clearing House Advisory Notice 02-71 - OneChicago Clearing Guarantee Agreement for Globex Access (PDF)
  
  
• OneChicago Clearing Guarantee Agreement for Globex Access (PDF)

Legal Agreement Required for Delivery of OneChicago Products for CME firms choosing to clear through CME
Very important: CME firms choosing to clear their OneChicago trades at CME must also execute this agreement:

• Agreement Required for Delivery of OneChicago Products for CME firms choosing to clear through CME (PDF)

Legal Agreement for CME-firm to Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE)-firm Cross-Exchange Give-Ups
CBOE firms wishing to receive give-up trades from CME firms in OneChicago products must execute this agreement, specifying which firms they will accept such give-ups.

• Trade Transfer Agreement for OneChicago Products -- CME Firm to CBOE Firm (PDF)

Legal Agreement for CBOE firms to Participate in CME® GAINS®
CBOE firms wanting to participate in the CME GAINS® system for brokerage billing for trades executed in OneChicago products must execute this agreement.

• GAINS System Agreement for CBOE Firms Trading OneChicago Products (PDF)

Clearing Choices for CME firms
Describes how clearing and bookkeeping processing works for CME firms trading OneChicago products.

• Clearing Choices for CME firms for OneChicago Security Futures (PDF)

Corporate Event Processing at CME
Explains the mechanics of how corporate events, such as stock splits, affect OneChicago futures positions in bookkeeping and clearing.

• Corporate Event Processing at CME for OneChicago Security Futures (PDF) 
  

• Corporate Event Detailed Examples

  • Integral Splits
    Forecast - Integral Split (PDF)
    Trade Register - Integral Split (PDF)
  • Non-Integral Splits
    Forecast - Non-integral Split (PDF)
    Trade Register - Non-Integral Split (PDF)
  • Extraordinary Cash Dividends
    Forecast - Extraordinary Cash Dividend (PDF)
    Trade Register - Extraordinary Cash Dividend (PDF)
  • Summary Report of Corporate Events
    Forecast - Corporate Event Summary (PDF)

One Chicago Firm Translation Report
This report shows all CME firms and CBOE firms eligible to trade OneChicago security futures products. For each CBOE firm, it also shows the "CME-internal" firm number assigned to each CBOE firm. To give up a trade to a CBOE firm, you must specify its CME-internal number.

• Sample Report - This shows the firms set up for OneChicago testing. This is sample data for testing only.
  
  
• Production Report - This shows firms currently set up for production when OneChicago launches — firms will be continually added to this report as they are set up for production and as the launch approaches.

CME Clearing Codes for OneChicago Products

• CME Clearing Codes for OneChicago products. A spreadsheet listing (a) the equities and narrow-based indices on which OneChicago lists futures, (b) the ticker code for the equities, (c) the full up-to-six-byte OneChicago product symbol for futures contract, and (d) the two-byte CME clearing code for futures contracts, use in the SPAN® file, TREX messages, etc.
  
  
• A Web page of the clearing codes can be found at  Single Stock Futures Codes.

Enhancements to the CME Edit File for OneChicago

• Enhancements to the CME Edit File for OneChicago, Client Management Advisory CM-0275, published Sept. 13, 2002. The CME Edit File, published daily and available on the Internet, now provides (a) a cross-reference between the full OneChicago product code and the two-byte CME clearing code, and (b) the CME-internal firm numbers assigned to CBOE firms, so that CME firms can do cross-exchange give-ups with CBOE firms and vice versa.
  

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