Document ID: SEC-2021-0342-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.
Posted Date: 2021-03-11T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 46 (Thursday, March 11, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13918-13922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05023]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-91260; File No. SR-CboeEDGX-2021-013]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.; Notice 
of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To 
Amend the Fee Schedule

March 5, 2021.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
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``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that 
on March 1, 2021, Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or 
``EDGX'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 
``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, 
and III below, which Items have been prepared by the Exchange. The 
Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the 
proposed rule change from interested persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance 
of the Proposed Rule Change

    Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or ``EDGX'') is filing 
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') a proposed 
rule change to amend the fee schedule applicable to Members and non-
Members of the Exchange pursuant to EDGX Rules 15.1(a) and (c). Changes 
to the fee schedule pursuant to this proposal are effective upon 
filing. The text of the proposed rule change is provided in Exhibit 5.
    The text of the proposed rule change is also available on the 
Exchange's website (http://markets.cboe.com/us/options/regulation/rule_filings/edgx/), at the Exchange's Office of the Secretary, and at 
the Commission's Public Reference Room.

II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

    In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements 
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and 
discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The 
text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in 
Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared summaries, set forth in 
sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such 
statements.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    The Exchange proposes to amend its fee schedule in connection with 
its standard removing liquidity fees and Add/Remove Volume Tiers. The 
Exchange proposes to implement the proposed change to its fee schedule 
on March 1, 2021.
    The Exchange first notes that it operates in a highly competitive 
market in which market participants can readily direct order flow to 
competing venues if they deem fee levels at a particular venue to be 
excessive or incentives to be insufficient. More specifically, the 
Exchange is only one of 16 registered equities exchanges, as well as a 
number of alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues 
that do not have similar self-regulatory responsibilities under the 
Exchange Act, to which market participants may direct their order flow. 
Based on publicly available information,\3\ no single registered 
equities exchange has more than 19% of the market share. Thus, in such 
a low-concentrated and highly competitive market, no single equities 
exchange possesses significant pricing power in the execution of order 
flow. The Exchange in particular operates a ``Maker-Taker'' model 
whereby it pays credits to members that provide liquidity and assesses 
fees to those that remove liquidity. The Exchange's fee schedule sets 
forth the standard rebates and rates applied per share for orders that 
provide and remove liquidity, respectively. Currently, for orders 
priced at or above $1.00, the Exchange provides a standard rebate of 
$0.00160 per share for orders that add liquidity and assesses a fee of 
$0.00270 per share for orders that remove liquidity. For orders priced 
below $1.00, the Exchange provides a standard rebate of $0.00009 per 
share for orders that add liquidity and assesses a fee of 0.30% of 
Dollar Value for orders that remove liquidity. The Exchange believes 
that the ever-shifting market share among the exchanges from month to 
month demonstrates that market participants can shift order flow, or 
discontinue or reduce use of certain categories of products, in 
response to fee changes. Accordingly, competitive forces constrain the 
Exchange's transaction fees, and market participants can readily trade 
on competing venues if they deem pricing levels at those other venues 
to be more favorable.
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    \3\ See Cboe Global Markets, U.S. Equities Market Volume 
Summary, Month-to-Date (February 24, 2021), available at https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_statistics/.
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Standard Removing Liquidity Fee
    As stated above, the Exchange currently provides a standard fee of 
$0.00270 per share for liquidity removing orders (i.e., those yielding 
fee codes N,\4\ W,\5\ 6,\6\ BB,\7\ and ZR \8\) in securities priced at 
or above $1.00. Orders in securities priced below $1.00 that remove 
liquidity are assessed a fee of 0.30% of the dollar value. The Exchange 
now proposes to increase the current standard fee of $0.00270 per share 
to $0.00280 per share for orders that remove liquidity for securities 
priced at or above $1.00. Orders that remove liquidity in securities 
priced below $1.00 would continue to be assessed a fee of 0.30% of the 
dollar value. Although this proposed standard fee for liquidity 
removing orders is higher than the current base rate for such orders, 
the proposed fee is in line with similar fees for liquidity removing 
orders in place on other exchanges.\9\
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    \4\ Appended to orders that remove liquidity from EDGX (Tape C) 
and charges a fee of $0.00270 per share.
    \5\ Appended to orders that remove liquidity from EDGX (Tape A) 
and charges a fee of $0.00270 per share.
    \6\ Appended to orders that remove liquidity from EDGX, pre and 
post market (All Tapes) and charges a fee of $0.00270 per share.
    \7\ Appended to orders that remove liquidity from EDGX (Tape B) 
and charges a fee of $0.00270 per share.
    \8\ Appended to retail orders that remove liquidity from EDGX 
and charges a fee of $0.00270 per share.
    \9\ E.g., the Nasdaq base fee rate of $0.0030 for liquidity 
removing orders in securities priced at or above $1.00. See https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2.
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Growth Tier 2 & Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier
    In addition to the standard fees and rebates, in response to the 
competitive environment, the Exchange also offers tiered pricing which 
provides Members opportunities to qualify for higher rebates or reduced 
fees where certain volume criteria and thresholds are met. Tiered 
pricing provides an incremental incentive for Members to strive for 
higher tier levels, which provides increasingly higher benefits or 
discounts for satisfying increasingly more stringent criteria.
    Currently, the Exchange provides for certain Add/Remove Volume 
Tiers under footnote 1 of the Fee Schedule. More specifically, the Add/
Remove Volume Tiers provide for seven different volume tiers that offer 
enhanced rebates on Members' orders yielding fee codes ``B'' \10\, 
``V'' \11\, ``Y'' \12\,

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``3'' \13\ and ``4'' \14\, where a Member reaches certain volume-based 
criteria offered in each tier. Two of these tiers are ``Growth Tiers'', 
which are designed to encourage growth in order flow by providing 
specific criteria in which Members must increase their relative 
liquidity each month over a predetermined baseline. Growth Tier 2, for 
example, provides an enhanced rebate of $0.0030 on qualifying orders 
(i.e., B, V, Y, 3 and 4) where a Member has (1) a Retail Step-Up Add 
TCV \15\ (i.e., yielding fee code ZA) \16\ from January 2021 that is 
greater than or equal to 0.10%; (2) an add ADV \17\ greater than or 
equal to 0.50% of the TCV; and (3) removes an ADV of greater than or 
equal to 0.80% of the ADV. The Exchange now proposes to amend the third 
criteria of the Growth Tier 2 to provide for Members who remove an ADV 
of greater than or equal to 0.75% of the ADV, rather than 0.80%.
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    \10\ Appended to orders that add liquidity to EDGX (Tape B) and 
offers a rebate of $0.00160 per share.
    \11\ Appended to orders that add liquidity to EDGX (Tape A) and 
offers a rebate of $0.00160 per share.
    \12\ Appended to orders that add liquidity to EDGX (Tape C) and 
offers a rebate of $0.00160 per share.
    \13\ Appended to orders that add liquidity to EDGX pre and post 
market (Tape A or C) and offers a rebate of $0.00160 per share.
    \14\ Appended to orders that add liquidity to EDGX pre and post 
market (Tape B) and offers a rebate of $0.00160 per share.
    \15\ ``Step-Up Add TCV'' means ADAV as a percentage of TCV in 
the relevant baseline month subtracted from current ADAV as a 
percentage of TCV. ``TCV'' means total consolidated volume 
calculated as the volume reported by all exchanges and trade 
reporting facilities to a consolidated transaction reporting plan 
for the month for which the fees apply. ``ADAV'' means ADAV means 
average daily added volume calculated as the number of shares added 
per day. ADAV is calculated on a monthly basis.
    \16\ Appended to Retail Orders that add liquidity to EDGX and 
offers a rebate of $0.0032 per share.
    \17\ ``ADV'' means average daily volume calculated as the number 
of shares added to, removed from, or routed by, the Exchange, or any 
combination or subset thereof, per day. ADV is calculated on a 
monthly basis.
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    Additionally, under the Add/Remove Volume Tiers in footnote 1 of 
the Fee Schedule the Exchange also provides for the Non-Displayed Step-
Up Tier, which offers enhanced rebates on Members' orders yielding fee 
codes ``DM'' \18\, ``HA'' \19\, ``MM'' \20\ and ``RP'' \21\ where a 
Member reaches certain required volume-based criteria offered in each 
tier. The Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier provides an enhanced rebate of 
$0.0025 where a Member has: (1) A Step-Up Add TCV from January 2021 
greater than or equal to 0.10%; (2) adds an ADV greater than or equal 
to 0.50% of the TCV; and (3) removes an ADV of greater than or equal to 
0.80% of the TCV. The Exchange now proposed to amend the third criteria 
of the Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier to provide for Members who remove an 
ADV of greater than or equal to 0.75% of the ADV, rather than 0.80%.
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    \18\ Appended to orders that add liquidity using MidPoint 
Discretionary order within discretionary range and are provided a 
rebate of $0.00100.
    \19\ Appended to non-displayed orders that add liquidity and are 
provided a rebate of $0.00100.
    \20\ Appended to non-displayed orders that add liquidity using 
Mid-Point Peg and are provided a rebate of $0.00100.
    \21\ Appended to non-displayed orders that add liquidity using 
Supplemental Peg and are provided a rebate of $0.00100.
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    Both the Growth Tier 2 and the Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier, as 
amended, offer the same three-pronged criteria and are designed to 
incentivize overall order flow, particularly by offering enhanced 
rebates for both displayed (i.e., B, V, Y, 3 and 4) and non-displayed 
(DM, HA, MM and RP) orders if a Member meets the different, 
incrementally more difficult criteria as amended in Growth Tier 2 and 
Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier. Particularly, the proposed amendment to the 
third prong of the criteria is designed to encourage a Member to 
increase liquidity removing volume.
Remove Volume Tier
    Pursuant to footnote 1 of the Fee Schedule, the Exchange offers a 
Remove Volume Tier (Tier 1) that provides Members an opportunity to 
receive a reduced fee of $0.0026 for liquidity removing orders that 
yield fee codes BB, N, and W. To qualify for the current Remove Volume 
Tier, a Member must have an ADAV \22\ of greater than or equal to 0.25% 
of the TCV with displayed orders that yield fee codes B, V or Y. The 
Exchange now proposes to incrementally increase the reduced fee to 
$0.0027 based on the proposed standard fee change. Additionally, the 
Exchange proposes to offer an alternative qualification for the Remove 
Volume Tier for a Member that adds Retail Order ADV (i.e., yielding fee 
code ZA) of greater than or equal to 0.45% of the TCV. The proposal is 
designed to encourage a Member to increase Retail Order liquidity 
removing volume.
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    \22\ ADAV means average daily volume calculated as the number of 
shares added per day. ADAV is calculated on a monthly basis.
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2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with Section 6 of the Act,\23\ in general, and furthers the 
requirements of Section 6(b)(4),\24\ in particular, as it is designed 
to provide for the equitable allocation of reasonable dues, fees and 
other charges among its facilities and does not unfairly discriminate 
between customers, issuers, brokers or dealers. The Exchange operates 
in a highly-competitive market in which market participants can readily 
direct order flow to competing venues if they deem fee levels at a 
particular venue to be excessive or incentives to be insufficient.
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    \23\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \24\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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    In particular, the Exchange believes that the proposed amendment to 
increase the standard removing liquidity fee is reasonable, equitable 
and non-discriminatory because the proposed change represents a modest 
fee increase and such fee is equally applicable to all liquidity 
removing orders and thus is also equally applicable to all Members of 
the Exchange. Additionally, as noted above, the Exchange operates in a 
highly competitive market. The Exchange is only one of several equity 
venues to which market participants may direct their order flow, and it 
represents a relativel [sic] small percentage of the overall market. 
Moreover, the proposed standard fee for liquidity removing orders is 
still lower than that offered at other exchanges for similar 
transactions.\25\
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    \25\ See supra note 9.
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    The Exchange believes the proposed changes to Growth Tier 2, the 
Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier, and the Remove Volume Tier are reasonable 
because they either amend an existing opportunity or add an alternative 
opportunity for Members to receive an enhanced rebate or reduced fee on 
qualifying orders by means of overall order flow, including liquidity 
adding and removing orders. The Exchange notes that relative volume-
based incentives and discounts have been widely adopted by 
exchanges,\26\ including the Exchange,\27\ and are reasonable, 
equitable and non-discriminatory because they are open to all members 
on an equal basis and provide additional benefits or discounts that are 
reasonably related to (i) the value to an exchange's market quality and 
(ii) associated higher levels of market activity, such as higher levels 
of liquidity provision and/or growth patterns. Competing equity 
exchanges offer similar tiered pricing structures to that of the 
Exchange, including schedules of rebates and fees that apply based upon 
members achieving certain volume and/or growth thresholds. These

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competing pricing schedules, moreover, are presently comparable to 
those that the Exchange provides, including the pricing of comparable 
tiers.\28\
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    \26\ See e.g., Nasdaq PSX Price List, Rebate to Add Displayed 
Liquidity (Per Share Executed), and Rebate to Add Other Non-
Displayed Liquidity, which provide rebates to members for adding 
displayed and non-displayed liquidity over certain thresholds of TCV 
ranging between $0.00075 and $0.00305, available at http://nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=PriceListTrading2; and Cboe BZX U.S. 
Equities Exchange Fee Schedule, Footnote 1, Add Volume Tiers, which 
provides similar incentives for displayed and non-displayed 
liquidity and offers rebates ranging between $0.0018 and $0.0031.
    \27\ See generally, Cboe EDGX U.S. Equities Exchange Fee 
Schedule, Footnote 1, Add Volume Tiers.
    \28\ See supra note 3.
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    Moreover, the Exchange believes the proposed tiers are a reasonable 
means to encourage overall growth in Members' overall order flow to the 
Exchange and to incentivize Members to continue to provide liquidity 
adding and liquidity removing to the Exchange by offering them a 
different or additional opportunity than those opportunities currently 
under the Add/Remove Volume Tiers to receive an enhanced rebate on 
qualifying orders. The Exchange believes that the proposed tiers will 
generally benefit all market participants by incentivizing continuous 
liquidity and thus, deeper more liquid markets as well as increased 
execution opportunities. Indeed, the Exchange notes that greater add 
volume order flow may provide for deeper, more liquid markets and 
execution opportunities, and greater remove volume order flow may 
increase transactions on the Exchange, which the Exchange believes 
incentivizes liquidity providers to submit additional liquidity and 
execution opportunities, thus, providing an overall increase in price 
discovery and transparency on the Exchange.
    Further, the Exchange believes that the proposed tier changes are 
reasonable as they do not represent a significant departure from the 
current criteria or enhanced rebates currently offered in the Fee 
Schedule. First, the Exchange believes that modifying third criteria in 
Growth Tier 2 and the Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier is reasonably designed 
to ease the current criteria and therefore incentivize Members to 
achieve the enhanced rebate. Second, the Exchange believes that the 
increase to the Remove Volume Tier is reasonable as the fee increase is 
incremental to the proposed change to the standard liquidity removing 
fee. Further, the proposed additional criteria option to achieve the 
Remove Volume Tier in is reasonable as it would incentivize Members to 
meet certain liquidity adding Retail Order thresholds.
    The Exchange believes that the proposal represents an equitable 
allocation of fees and rebates and is not unfairly discriminatory 
because all Members will continue to be eligible for the Growth Tier 2, 
Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier, and Remove Volume Tier, as amended. All 
Members will have the opportunity to meet the three tiers' criteria and 
will receive the proposed corresponding enhanced rebates or reduced fee 
for their respective qualifying orders if they meet such criteria. 
Without having a view of activity on other markets and off-exchange 
venues, the Exchange has no way of knowing whether this proposed rule 
change would definitely result in any Members qualifying for the 
proposed tiers. While the Exchange has no way of predicting with 
certainty how the proposed tier will impact Member activity, the 
Exchange anticipates that at least three Members will be able to 
compete for and reach the amended criteria in Growth Tier 2 and the 
Non-Displayed Step-Up Tier, and at least six Members will be able to 
compete for and reach the amended criteria in the Remove Volume Tier. 
The Exchange anticipates that multiple Member types will compete to 
reach the proposed tiers, broker-dealers and liquidity providers, each 
providing distinct types of order flow to the Exchange to the benefit 
of all market participants. The Exchange also notes that proposed tiers 
will not adversely impact any Member's pricing or ability to qualify 
for other reduced fee or enhanced rebate tiers. Should a Member not 
meet the proposed criteria under either of the proposed tiers, the 
Member will merely not receive that corresponding enhanced rebate.

B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The Exchange believes the 
proposed rule change does not impose any burden on intra-market 
competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the 
purposes of the Act. The Exchange does not believe that the proposed 
rule changes will impose any burden on competition not necessary or 
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. Rather, as 
discussed above, the Exchange believes that the proposed change would 
encourage the submission of additional order flow to a public exchange, 
thereby promoting market depth, execution incentives and enhanced 
execution opportunities, as well as price discovery and transparency 
for all Members. As a result, the Exchange believes that the proposed 
change furthers the Commission's goal in adopting Regulation NMS of 
fostering competition among orders, which promotes ``more efficient 
pricing of individual stocks for all types of orders, large and 
small.''
    The Exchange believes the proposed rule change does not impose any 
burden on intermarket competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purpose of the Act. As previously discussed, the 
Exchange operates in a highly competitive market. Members have numerous 
alternative venues that they may participate on and direct their order 
flow, including 15 other equities exchanges and off-exchange venues and 
alternative trading systems. Additionally, the Exchange represents a 
small percentage of the overall market. Based on publicly available 
information, no single equities exchange has more than 19% of the 
market share.\29\ Therefore, no exchange possesses significant pricing 
power in the execution of order flow. Indeed, participants can readily 
choose to send their orders to other exchange and off-exchange venues 
if they deem fee levels at those other venues to be more favorable. 
Moreover, the Commission has repeatedly expressed its preference for 
competition over regulatory intervention in determining prices, 
products, and services in the securities markets. Specifically, in 
Regulation NMS, the Commission highlighted the importance of market 
forces in determining prices and SRO revenues and, also, recognized 
that current regulation of the market system ``has been remarkably 
successful in promoting market competition in its broader forms that 
are most important to investors and listed companies.'' \30\ The fact 
that this market is competitive has also long been recognized by the 
courts. In NetCoalition v. Securities and Exchange Commission, the D.C. 
Circuit stated as follows: ``[n]o one disputes that competition for 
order flow is `fierce.' . . . As the SEC explained, `[i]n the U.S. 
national market system, buyers and sellers of securities, and the 
broker-dealers that act as their order-routing agents, have a wide 
range of choices of where to route orders for execution'; [and] `no 
exchange can afford to take its market share percentages for granted' 
because `no exchange possesses a monopoly, regulatory or otherwise, in 
the execution of order flow from broker dealers'. . . .''.\31\ 
Accordingly, the Exchange does not believe its proposed fee change 
imposes any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.
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    \29\ See supra 3.
    \30\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 (June 9, 
2005), 70 FR 37496, 37499 (June 29, 2005).
    \31\ See NetCoalition v. SEC, 615 F.3d 525, 539 (D.C. Cir. 2010) 
(quoting Securities Exchange Act Release No. 59039 (December 2, 
2008), 73 FR 74770, 74782-83 (December 9, 2008) (SR-NYSEArca-2006-
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    The Exchange believes the proposed rule changes do not impose any 
burden on intramarket competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. Particularly, the proposed 
change to the standard removing liquidity fee applies to all liquidity 
removing orders equally, and thus applies to all Members equally. 
Similarly, the proposed tier changes apply to all Members equally in 
that all Members are eligible for the amended Growth Tier 3, Non-
Displayed Step-Up Tier, and Remove Volume Tier, and have a reasonable 
opportunity to meet the tiers' criteria and will all automatically and 
uniformly receive the corresponding enhanced rebate on their respective 
qualifying orders if such criteria is met. Additionally, the proposed 
changes to the tier criteria are designed to attract additional overall 
order flow to the Exchange. The Exchange believes that the amended tier 
criteria would incentivize market participants to grow their overall 
order flow submitted to the Exchange, both liquidity adding and 
removing order flow, bringing with it improved price transparency. The 
Exchange believes greater overall order flow and pricing transparency 
benefits all market participants on the Exchange by providing more 
trading opportunities, enhancing market quality, and continuing to 
encourage Members to send orders, thereby contributing towards a robust 
and well-balanced market ecosystem, which benefits all market 
participants.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed 
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

    The Exchange neither solicited nor received comments on the 
proposed rule change.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 
Commission Action

    The foregoing rule change has become effective pursuant to Section 
19(b)(3)(A) of the Act \32\ and paragraph (f) of Rule 19b-4 \33\ 
thereunder. At any time within 60 days of the filing of the proposed 
rule change, the Commission summarily may temporarily suspend such rule 
change if it appears to the Commission that such action is necessary or 
appropriate in the public interest, for the protection of investors, or 
otherwise in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. If the Commission 
takes such action, the Commission will institute proceedings to 
determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or 
disapproved.
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    \32\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \33\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f).
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IV. Solicitation of Comments

    Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views and 
arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule 
change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of 
the following methods:

Electronic Comments

     Use the Commission's internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an email to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please 
include File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2021-013 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities 
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2021-013. This 
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To 
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, 
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on 
the Commission's internet website (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). 
Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written 
statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are filed with 
the Commission, and all written communications relating to the proposed 
rule change between the Commission and any person, other than those 
that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the provisions 
of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for website viewing and printing in 
the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549, on official business days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 
3:00 p.m. Copies of the filing also will be available for inspection 
and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. All comments 
received will be posted without change. Persons submitting comments are 
cautioned that we do not redact or edit personal identifying 
information from comment submissions. You should submit only 
information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions 
should refer to File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2021-013 and should be 
submitted on or before April 1, 2021.
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    \34\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\34\
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
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