CME Group Inc. (CME) reiterated Thursday that it followed all proper protocols in its review of MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MFGLQ), following reports that the exchange operator was slow to report a shortfall in customer funds held by the broker-dealer.

"CME was advised in the early hours of Monday, October 31 that there was an actual shortfall in the segregated funds account and was told the [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] was advised concurrently," representatives for CME wrote in a statement Thursday.

The matter was discussed "shortly thereafter" in a conference call with the CFTC and other regulators, according to CME's Thursday statement.

A report posted by Bloomberg News on its website Wednesday said that CME discovered about $900 million in customer money missing from MF Global's books on Sunday, Oct. 30, but that regulators were not alerted until the following day.

Goldman Sachs Group (GS) in a research note Wednesday separately suggested that "worries" over the timing of CME's communication with regulators on the matter, and potential liabilities as a result, have weighed on CME's share price over the past week.

CME said it issued the statement Thursday "in response to inaccuracies reported yesterday."

-By Jacob Bunge, Dow Jones Newswires; 312 750 4117; jacob.bunge@dowjones.com

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