Order Providing Exemptive Relief To Facilitate Cross-Margining of Customer Positions Cleared at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation

What it does

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC" or "Commission") is issuing an order pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") that provides exemptive relief from the CEA and Commission regulations related to segregation and protection of futures customer funds. The order permits joint clearing members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. ("CME") and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation ("FICC") that are dually registered as broker-dealers with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and futures commission merchants ("FCMs") with the Commission ("BD-FCMs") to hold futures customer funds in a commingled customer account at FICC.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

Compared with

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has published 13 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 11 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Applicable as of April 15, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register