UPDATE 1-CME applies to get into new swaps exchange business
September 18, 2013 at 14:01 PM EDT
Sept 18 (Reuters) - CME Group Inc, the biggest U.S. futures market operator, has applied with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register as a swap execution facility (SEF), an exchange-like platform created as a result of the global crackdown on the derivatives that helped bring the 2007-2008 credit crisis.