---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-123953"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CME"
cik: "0001156375"
company_name: "CME GROUP INC."
filed_at: "2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T06:12:35.573462+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CME Group renews $7B backstop credit facility for clearing subsidiary

## Summary
- Amendments to 364-day multi-currency secured credit facility for Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
- Facility size: $7 billion, eligible to increase to $10 billion.
- Purpose: provide temporary liquidity for clearing member default, liquidity constraint, or depositary default.
- Collateral includes clearing firm guaranty fund contributions and performance bond assets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-123953
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CME
- cik: 0001156375
- company_name: CME GROUP INC.
- filed_at: 2023-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312523123953/0001193125-23-123953-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312523123953/d500246d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-123953.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  CME GROUP INC. incurred revolving credit of $7 billion (which is eligible to be increased to $10 billion) with Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent, Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as collateral agent and collateral monitoring agent, and the banks party thereto.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $7 billion (which is eligible to be increased to $10 billion)
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent, Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as collateral agent and collateral monitoring agent, and the banks party thereto
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: The Amended Credit Facility is for a multi-currency revolving secured credit facility of $7 billion (which is eligible to be increased to $10 billion) and is intended to provide temporary liquidity to CME in the event of a clearing member default, a liquidity constraint or depositary default, or in the event of a delay in the payment systems utilized by CME.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312523123953/0001193125-23-123953-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  CME GROUP INC. amended Amendment with Bank of America, N.A. (effective 2023-04-26).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: Bank of America, N.A.
  - Effective: 2023-04-26
  source text: On April 26, 2023, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (“CME”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group Inc., entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to its 364-day multi-currency credit facility (the “Existing Credit Facility”) with Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent, Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as collateral agent and collateral monitoring agent, and the banks party thereto.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312523123953/0001193125-23-123953-index.htm

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