Collaborate with global market participants using CME Chat. Built to support your workflows over a secure, fast and integrated network. CME Chat is available via CME Group Login for cross-platform applications such as CME Direct and CME Direct Mobile.
Centralized Communication
- Connect to CME Group’s trading community or to Eikon Messenger's 300,000 verified global users
- Create and monitor chat rooms
- Streamline communication with counterparties and customers with customized blast messages
Quick Tools
- Automatically capture and archive all messages – and easily search for history or keywords
- Quickly create and receive parsed pricing quotes that facilitate trade entry
- Set up Quick Key messages to create your own shorthand and communicate faster
Enhanced Integrations
- Seamlessly integrate with best-in-class compliance programs through our third-party partnerships
- Integrated QuikStrike analytics
Alerting
- Create alerts on keywords, counterparty availability, and counterparty messages
- Receive user-defined liquidity and block trade alerts from CME Group markets
Firms that are not currently registered for CME Chat can follow the New Firm & User Registration instructions.
To add new users at a previously registered CME Chat firm, follow the Additional User Registration instructions.
Step 1: Please confirm with your company's compliance department if CME Chat/IM tool has been approved before submitting the CME Chat Registration form.
Step 2: Firm will need to designate at least two Verification Officers* (VO); a person who is authorized to Add/Modify/Delete user access for the firm. This is a required field on the registration form and is noted as a Verification Officer.
*Verification Officer
- A person authorized by a firm to ADD/Modify/Delete access for CME Chat users
- This person may be a compliance officer at the firm
Step 3: All users and Verification Officers need to create and activate a CME Group Login ID; if they don’t already have these established, they can Register for a CME Group Login ID and set up the multi-factor authentication. See the CME Group Login ID User Guide for more information.
Step 4: Designated Verification Officer to submit the CME Chat New Firm Registration Form
If you need CME Chat via CME Direct, a firm will need to register for CME Direct.
Learn about CME Direct registration
If your firm is already registered, your firm's verification officer can add a user.
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