Every clearing member must submit to the Clearing House trade data for the day's business not later than the time specified by the Clearing House. (11/29/07)
The Clearing House shall process all trade data submitted by clearing members but shall accept only those trade records (transactions) which are in agreement with the corresponding trade records submitted by the opposite clearing members.
Trade records will be matched, to the extent the opposite trade information is consistent, through the tiered matching process.
Resubmitted trade data will be processed by the Clearing House. Trades with unmatched trade information remaining after the tiered matching process will be rejected and outtrade notices will be issued to clearing members.
Trades unreconciled after the final reconciliation must be submitted on the following business day as "as-of-trades." (11/29/07)
From the trade data cleared during each day's reconciliation, the Clearing House will produce a trade register for each clearing member which will itemize by commodity and contract: the opening long and short position, the contracts bought and/or sold during the day, the prices at which executed, and the settlement amounts.
The Clearing House will also produce a recap ledger for each clearing member that will itemize various position and financial information that includes but is not limited to, commodity positions, settlement amounts and performance bond information. (11/29/07)
It shall be the primary responsibility of the clearing member to see that all trades are cleared prior to the opening of the following day's open outcry market.
Each member, if applicable, and clearing member firm shall designate a person or persons who will be available and responsible for reconciling the member or clearing member firm's outtrades. The person or persons shall be qualified to resolve outtrades as the member or clearing member firm's designated outtrade representative. Failure to have a qualified representative available, with all materials necessary to reconcile outtrades, at the time specified above shall constitute negligence in the determination of responsibility for any outtrades. If one firm cannot locate another firm's broker or representative for clearing purposes during these time periods, it shall report such fact to the President of the Clearing House. If the President of the Clearing House or his designee cannot find the broker or representative of the firm, fines will be assessed in the amounts of $1,000, $2,000 or $3,000 sequentially, for violations occurring within a 30-day period. (11/29/07)