Advance Swaps, LLC
announces Over-The-Counter Brokerage Services in CME Exchange cleared Calendar Grain and Corn Basis Swaps.

Advance Swaps, LLC, has combined the experience of cash grain merchandisers, commercial grain brokers and Over-The-Counter professionals, to offer brokerage services in the recently listed CME Group Exchange cleared Calendar Swaps in Corn, Wheat and Soybeans, as well six Corn Basis Swaps.

Advance Swaps, LLC will offer these services to a large network of grain producers, merchandisers, ethanol companies, feed and food processors and users, hedge funds and other swaps market participants. We are experienced brokers and we come to this marketplace with a broad network of grain market participants, whom represent both, the natural long and the short in these markets, as well as market making participants. We are confident that the size and diversity of our existing client base, combined with an efficient form of market communication and execution, we will be able to create depth and liquidity in this marketplace.

Advance Swaps, LLC, will match buyers and sellers through a combination of an affiliated broker network and Instant Messaging with counter-parties to negotiate transactions in these marketplaces. Trades will promptly be entered, on behalf of the counter-parties into the CME Group’s swap clearing system, Clearport, and confirmations will be promptly issued to all parties.

Calendar Grain Swaps offer the ability to privately structure risk management solutions and have the financial security of being cleared at the CME Group. Corn Basis Swaps offer corn traders a new tool in corn basis risk management and the financial security of clearing the CME Group.

Please call us with any questions regarding these products, how transactions take place, and how these products may benefit your risk management and trading programs. We would be happy to answer any questions that you may have and put you onto our markets so that you can see bids and offers in these markets.

Additional Contract Information:
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/commodities/grain-calendar-basic-swaps.html

Contact Information:
Trading Desk: Jim Holzer 312-518-6298

Administration:
1619 Commerce Parkway
Bloomington, IL 61704
309-663-2375