CME Clearing Europe expands its metals offering with two Iron Ore contracts

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012

LONDON, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Clearing Europe, CME Group's European clearing house, today announced that it has added two new over-the-counter (OTC) Iron Ore contracts for clearing: Iron Ore 62% CFR China Calendar Swaps and Iron Ore 62% CFR China Average Price Options beginning Monday, 10 December 2012 subject to regulatory approval.

This expansion of products is in line with CME Clearing Europe's commitment to helping customers manage their risk associated with China's construction industry. These new products build on CME Group's growing and expanding Virtual Steel Mill suite of products. In conjunction with clearing commodity contracts that support its clients' risk management needs, CME Clearing Europe offers margin efficiencies through inter-commodity spread credits where product pairs are price correlated, and offers margin offsets between its OTC WTI and Brent crude oil contracts, as well as its gasoil contracts.

CME Clearing Europe

CME Clearing Europe is an FSA recognised, multi-asset class clearing house based in London that offers more than 200 OTC products for clearing. Its clearing model ensures stability and increases transparency in the OTC markets that it clears. CME Clearing Europe has its own dedicated staff, and its governance arrangements, capital and default resources are separate from those of CME Clearing in the US. As part of CME Group it nonetheless has full access to the clearing and risk management expertise, systems and financial strength of CME. More information can be found at www.cmeclearingeurope.com.

CME Group

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CME Clearing Europe is a trading style of CME Clearing Europe Limited (6922392). The content of this release has been approved for issue by CME Marketing Europe Limited (FRN:2205230), which is authorised and regulated for by the Financial Services Authority for the conduct of investment business in the United kingdom.

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SOURCE CME Group