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VOLUME 20 - BULLETIN #152

TO:

ALL CLEARING MEMBERS

FROM:

BUSINESS SYSTEMS GROUP

DATE:

May 16, 2000

SUBJECT:

Summary Fine Schedule

Attached please find the updated Board of Trade Clearing Corporation Summary Fine Schedule as adopted by the Risk Committee on April 19, 2000.

Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail one of the following Business Systems Analysts:

Jennifer Campbell

786-5739

jennifer.campbell@botcc.com

John Compall

786-5795

john.compall@botcc.com

Shawn Gebbia

786-5748

shawn.gebbia@botcc.com

Marc MacQuarrie

786-5732

marc.macquarrie@botcc.com

Beth Minnick

786-3804

beth.minnick@botcc.com

Matt Walsh

786-5731

matt.walsh@botcc.com

     

Thomas Andrews

Manager

thomas.andrews@botcc.com

Diane Schuering

Vice President

diane.schuering@botcc.com

     

Business Systems Group E-Mail Address

BSG@botcc.com

BOTCC Web Site

http://www.botcc.com

Volume 20 - Bulletin #152 Page 2

 

BOARD OF TRADE CLEARING CORPORATION

 
 

SUMMARY FINE SCHEDULE

SUMMARY FINE SCHEDULE

 
 

As adopted by the Risk Committee on April 19, 2000

 
 
 

DELIVERY REPORTING FINES

 
 

Reason for Assessment

Amount/Action

 
 

Under-reporting of priority positions

Any firm that under reports long positions during a delivery month will be charged a $50 fee per commodity. When under-reporting affects delivery, an additional charge of at least $25 per contract will be levied; this charge will be reduced, but never below $500, by the amount of carrying costs reimbursed to affected members.*

 

Over-reporting of priority positions

Any firm that over reports long positions that result in delivery must stand for such delivery and retender all positions stopped the next business day.

 

Reporting tenders in error

Firms making errors in tender reporting must make delivery of positions accordingly. Exceptions to this policy would only be in emergency cases such as the shortage of warehouse receipts or shipping certificates.

 
 

The fee when allocation is changed will be $50 per commodity plus $25 or more per contract.

 
 

OPEN INTEREST FINES/FEES

 
 

Reason for Assessment

Amount/Action

 

Failure to submit substantially complete

and accurate open interest by 5:30 a.m. or failure to have a firm representative available by 5:30 a.m. to respond to questions or problems

1st time – warning letter

2nd time – $500

3rd time – $2,000

thereafter – $3,000 per occurrence**

If a firm under-reports its long position eligible for delivery in a particular commodity by less than 25 contracts and the under-reported position represents less than 5% of the deliveries relating to the particular commodity, the offending clearing member will be charged a $50 fee plus a fee of at least $25 per contract (and BOTCC will not reconstruct how delivery should have transpired). In the event that a firm under-reports its long position eligible for delivery in a particular commodity by 25 or more contracts (and the under-reporting affects delivery), or an under-reported position represents 5% or more of the deliveries of a particular commodity, the offending clearing member will be charged a $50 fee and will be fined at least $25 per contract (and BOTCC will reconstruct how delivery should have occurred absent the under-reporting error and calculate the cost of carry inappropriately incurred by the clearing member(s) that took delivery prematurely).

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Reason for Assessment

Amount/Action

 

Adjustments made by BOTCC systems

$25 fee per line item adjustment

and/or staff

   

Errors in submissions that had a 5% to

1st time–warning letter

25% impact on the accuracy of publicly

2nd time–$2,000

reported open interest

thereafter–$3,000per occurrence**

   

Errors in submissions that had a greater than 25% impact on the accuracy of publicly reported open interest

 

As determined by the Committee

(Not a summary fine)

   
   
 

OPTION EXPIRATION FEES

 
   

Reason for Assessment

Amount

   

Failure to have firm representative present for Friday afternoon trade checking session or Saturday option processing

 

$500 per offense

   

Failure to have a firm representative available in firm offices prior to 7:30 a.m. on expiration Saturday

 

$500 per offense

   

Failure to resolve unmatched trades by 8:30 a.m. on expiration Saturday for day session

 

$100 per record

   

Failure to submit exercise record, adjustment, correction and deletion records prior to 10:00 a.m. expiration Saturday

 

$500 per record

   

Failure to submit exercise record, adjust-

ment, correction and deletion records on

expiration Saturday in computerized form

 

$500 per record

   

Signing in for another firm who is not present for the trade matching or trade checking session

 

$2,000 per offense

   
   
 

CURRENCY COMMITMENT FORM FEE

   

Reason for Assessment

Amount

   

Failure to timely submit a buyers or sellers

Currency Commitment Form

$100