CME STP BaCE API

CME STP BaCE (bilateral and cleared-elsewhere) is a CME Group API service that provides electronic access for submission of bilateral and cleared-elsewhere trades.

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Table of Contents

1 Roles
2 User Permissions
3 Viewing Trades
4 Specifications
5 Locales
6 Format Values
7 Change Password

Roles

The API role enables users to access the CME BaCE API services for submitting trade records.

User Permissions

Permission	Description

Permission	Description
Use FTP	Enables users to upload trade files to the CME STP BaCE SFTP site.

Viewing Trades

Trades can be viewed using CME STP Trade View.

For more information contact the CME Group STP team.

Additional Resources

Click a link below to download the attached file.

Trade Data Rules - matrix detailing required message fields per commodity and trade type (per API version):

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_6_3.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_6_2.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_6_1.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_6_0.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_5_3.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_5_2.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_5_1.xls

CME_STP_BaCE_TradeDataRules_5_0.xls

Software Developers Kit:

CME_STP_BaCE_sdk.zip

Specifications

The following specifications provide the information necessary to write to the CME STP BaCE API:

Locales

This table displays the date, time, and currency formats for each locale. The date and time formats in the following table use the format specifiers described below. The date examples all use August 9, 2012.

Locale	Date Format	Date Example	Time Format	Time Example	Decimal Separator	Thousand Separator

Locale	Date Format	Date Example	Time Format	Time Example	Decimal Separator	Thousand Separator
United States	M/d/yyyy	8/9/2012	h:mm:ss AA	9:55:09 AM	period (.)	comma (,)
Canada (English)	d/M/yyyy	9/8/2012	h:mm:ss AA	9:55:09 AM	period (.)	comma (,)
Canada (French)	yyyy-MM-dd	2012-08-09	h:mm:ss	9:55:09	comma (,)	none
Great Britain	dd/MM/yyyy	09/08/2012	h:mm:ss	9:55:09	period (.)	comma (,)
Germany	dd.MM.yyyy	09.08.2012	h:mm:ss	9:55:09	comma (,)	period (.)

Format Values

The following table describes each value used in date/time formatting.

Format	Description	Example

Format	Description	Example
yyyy	The year with four digits.	2012
MM	The month as a number from 01 through 12 (or from 1 through 13 for calendars that have 13 months). A single-digit month is formatted with a leading zero.	08
M	The month as a number from 01 through 12 (or from 1 through 13 for calendars that have 13 months). A single-digit month is not formatted with a leading zero.	8
dd	The day of the month as a number from 01 through 31. A single-digit day is formatted with a leading zero.	01
d	The day of the month as a number from 01 through 31. A single-digit day is not formatted with a leading zero.	1
h	The hour as a number from 1 through 12; that is, the hour is represented by a 12-hour clock that counts the whole hours since midnight or noon. A particular hour after midnight is indistinguishable from the same hour after noon. A single-digit hour is formatted without a leading zero.	5
mm	The minute as a number from 00 through 59. The minute represents whole minutes that have passed since the last hour. A single-digit minute is formatted with a leading zero.	07
ss	The seconds as a number from 00 through 59. The result represents whole seconds that have passed since the last minute. A single-digit second is formatted with a leading zero.	05
AA	Two upper-case characters reflecting a.m. (after midnight) or p.m. (after noon).	AM

Change Password

Passwords expire automatically every 60 days. Starting six days before your password is set to expire, CME STP BaCE prompts you to change your password. You can change your password at any time.