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Sep 07, 2023

CORRECTION: Expansion of the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family to include Bitcoin and Ether Asia Pacific Variants

A previous version of this item misstated the date on which publication of the new CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family indices would commence. The correct date is as appears below.

The Administrator hereby announces the addition of the below 2 cryptocurrency reference rates to the CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products Family:

  • CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate - Asia Pacific Variant
  • CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate - Asia Pacific Variant

Each reference rate will publish the U.S. dollar price of each digital asset once a day at 16:00 Hong Kong time and will be subject to CME CF Reference Rates Methodology rules.

Publication of these reference rates will commence on September 11th, 2023.

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