Effective immediately, The Clearing Corporation is pleased to announce that we are enhancing our current offerings for acceptable original margin collateral to include Fannie Mae MBSs and Freddie Mac Gold PCs (subject to the provisions of the attached notice). In addition, the Clearing Corporation will also accept the Merrimac Cash Series (Premium Class) money market mutual fund, which is available on the BBH platform.

For more information on The Clearing Corporation current offerings for acceptable original margin collateral, please click on this link: http://www.clearingcorp.com/clearingmembers/RiskMargin/CCorpAcceptableCollateral.pdf

Should you have any questions regarding these programs, please contact our Risk Department: Chip Chong at (312) 986-3497 or Bernie Mattes at (312) 986-3444.