Computers Track Trades In Chicago Futures Pits

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"Old wine in new bottles" is how a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission member describes the computerized trade reconstruction system that recently went live at Chicago's two large futures exchanges.

CTR was jointly developed a year and a half ago by the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to meet the CFTC's requirement that all futures transactions be timed to the nearest minute.

The commission initially ordered all futures markets to have an audit trail in place by

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CME: CFTC OKs clearing move to Google Cloud

The CFTC has given the Chicago-based exchange approval to run its clearing and settlement infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform, while the exchange and vendor have extended their partnership to last until at least 2037.

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