SUBMISSION COVER SHEET

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Registered Entity Identifier Code (optional): 23-351

Organization: The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. ("CBOT")

Filing as a: DCM SEF DCO SDR 

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Filing Date (mm/dd/yy): August 17, 2023 Filing Description: Extension of the CBOT 

Event Contract Cash Settlement Fee Waiver Program

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Organization Rules and Rule Amendments

Certification § 40.6(a)

Approval § 40.5(a)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Advance Notice of SIDCO Rule Change § 40.10(a)

SIDCO Emergency Rule Change § 40.10(h)

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New Product Please note only ONE product per Submission.

Certification § 40.2(a) 

Certification Security Futures § 41.23(a)

Certification Swap Class § 40.2(d)

Approval § 40.3(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.23(b)

Novel Derivative Product Notification § 40.12(a)

Swap Submission § 39.5

Official Product Name: 

Product Terms and Conditions (product related Rules and Rule Amendments)

Certification § 40.6(a) 

Certification Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.6(a)

Certification Security Futures § 41.24(a)

Delisting (No Open Interest) § 40.6(a) 

Approval § 40.5(a)

Approval Made Available to Trade Determination § 40.5(a)

Approval Security Futures § 41.24(c)

Approval Amendments to enumerated agricultural products § 40.4(a), § 40.5(a)

“Non-Material Agricultural Rule Change” § 40.4(b)(5)

Notification § 40.6(d)

Official Name(s) of Product(s) Affected: 

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300 Vesey Street New York, NY 10282 T 212 299 2200 F 212 301 4645 christopher.bowen@cmegroup.com cmegroup.com\

Christopher Bowen 

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel

Legal Department

August 17, 2023

VIA ELECTRONIC PORTAL

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick 

Office of the Secretariat

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Three Lafayette Centre

1155 21st Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20581

RE: Extension of the CBOT Event Contract Cash Settlement Fee Waiver Program

CBOT Submission No. 23-351

Dear Mr. Kirkpatrick:

The Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Inc. ("CBOT" or “Exchange”) hereby notifies the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) of plans to extend the CBOT Event Contract Cash Settlement Fee 

Waiver Program (“Program”) through February 29, 2024. The extension of the Program will become effective on 

September 1, 2023. All other terms remain unchanged. 

Exhibit 1 sets forth the terms of this Program. Modifications appear below, with additions underlined and deletions 

overstruck.

The Exchange reviewed the designated contract market core principles (“Core Principles”) as set forth in the 

Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA” or “Act”). During the review, CBOT staff identified the following Core Principles as 

potentially being impacted: Monitoring of Trading, Execution of Transactions, Protection of Market Participants, 

Compliance with Rules, Availability of General Information, and Recordkeeping. 

The Program is a general fee waiver that applies to all market participants. A general fee waiver does not incentivize 

manipulative trading or market abuse. The Program does not impact the Exchange’s ability to perform its trade 

practice and market surveillance obligations under the CEA. The Exchange’s market regulation staff will monitor 

trading in the product that is included in the Program to prevent manipulative trading and market abuse. The general 

fee waiver in the Program does not impact the Exchange’s order execution. All market participants that execute 

trades in the product shall be entitled to participate. Chapter 4 of the Exchange rules includes prohibitions against 

fraudulent, non-competitive, unfair, or abusive practices. The Program is subject to these rules and CBOT records 

retention policies that comply with the CEA.

CBOT certifies that the Program complies with the CEA and the regulations thereunder. There were no substantive

opposing views to this Program.

The Exchange certifies that this submission has been concurrently posted on the Exchange’s website at 

http://www.cmegroup.com/market-regulation/rule-filings.html.

If you require any additional information regarding this submission, please e-mail 

CMEGSubmissionInquiry@cmegroup.com or contact Rachel Johnson at 312-466-4393 or via e-mail at 

Rachel.Johnson@cmegroup.com. Please reference our CBOT Submission No. 23-351 in any related 

correspondence.

Sincerely,

/s/ Christopher Bowen

Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Counsel

Attachment: Exhibit 1
EXHIBIT 1

CBOT Event Contract Cash Settlement Fee Waiver Program

Program Purpose 

The purpose of this Program is to incentivize market participants to support the launch and development 

of the product below. The resulting increase in liquidity benefits all participant segments of the market.

Product Scope

All CBOT Event Contracts that are traded on the CME Globex Platform (“Product”).

Eligible Participants

There is no limit to the number of participants in the Program. Participants may be members or nonmembers. The incentives described below will be automatically applied to all transactions in the Product

made by market participants. 

Program Term

Start date is September 19, 2022. End date is August 31, 2023 February 29, 2024.

Hours

N/A

Incentives

Fee Waivers: All market participants will receive cash settlement fee waivers for the Product.