CME Group Announces Launch of CME Term SOFR Reference Rates News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it is publishing CME Term SOFR Reference Rates for 1-month, 3-month and 6-month tenors. These benchmarks are based on CME Group's deep and liquid underlying SOFR futures, making them a robust and sustainable measure of forward-looking SOFR rates. They are aligned with the Alternative Reference Rates Committee's (ARRC) principles for recommended forward term rates. As ARRC criteria emphasizes, any forward term rate should have a limited scope of use so that the use does not materially impact volumes in the underlying SOFR-linked derivatives transactions that are relied upon to construct that rate, CME Group intends to limit the licensing of its SOFR Term Rates to cash market transactions initially until June 30, 2023. The Term SOFR rate will be available for license at no charge during this period.