Document ID: SEC-2019-1021-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: NYSE National, Inc.
Posted Date: 2019-07-18T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34451-34455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15257]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-86365; File No. SR-NYSENAT-2019-16]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE National, Inc.; Notice of 
Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Amend Its 
Schedule of Fees and Rebates To Reduce the Adding Average Daily Volume 
Required for ETP Holders To Qualify for the Adding Tier 1 Fees

July 12, 2019.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934 (``Act''),\2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby given 
that on July 1, 2019, NYSE National, Inc. (``NYSE National'' or 
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 
(``SEC'' or ``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\ 15 U.S.C. 78a.
    \3\ 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

    The Exchange proposes to amend its Schedule of Fees and Rebates to 
reduce the adding average daily volume required for ETP Holders to 
qualify for the Adding Tier 1 fees. The Exchange proposes to implement 
the rule change on July 1, 2019. The proposed rule change is available 
on the Exchange's website at www.nyse.com, at the principal office of 
the Exchange, 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 self-regulatory organization 
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 those 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 parts of such statements.

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

1. Purpose
    The Exchange proposes to amend its Schedule of Fees and Rebates 
(``Fee Schedule'') to reduce the amount of average daily volume 
(``ADV'') as a percentage of US consolidated ADV (``CADV'') that an ETP 
Holder must submit to the Exchange (i.e., Adding ADV) in order to 
qualify for the Adding Tier 1 fees. Specifically, the Exchange proposes 
to lower the requirement for the first of the two ways to qualify for 
the Adding Tier 1 credit from an adding ADV as a percentage of CADV of 
0.20% or more to an adding ADV as a percentage of CADV of 0.15% or 
more.
    The Exchange proposes to implement the rule change on July 1, 2019.
Background
    The Exchange operates in a highly competitive market. 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.'' \4\
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    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 (June 9, 
2005), 70 FR 37496, 37499 (S7-10-04) (Final Rule) (``Regulation 
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    As the Commission itself recognized, the market for trading 
services in NMS stocks has become ``more fragmented and competitive.'' 
\5\ Indeed, equity trading is currently dispersed across 13 
exchanges,\6\ 31 alternative trading systems,\7\ and numerous broker-
dealer internalizers and wholesalers. Based on publicly-available 
information, no single exchange has more than 18% of the market share 
of executed volume of equity trades (whether excluding or including 
auction volume).\8\ Therefore, no exchange possesses significant 
pricing power in the execution of equity order flow. More specifically, 
in June 2019, the Exchange had 1.2% market share of executed volume of 
equity trades (excluding auction volume).\9\ 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 to 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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    \5\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808, 84 FR 5202, 
5253 (February 20, 2019) (File No. S7-05-18) (Transaction Fee Pilot 
for NMS Stocks Final Rule) (``Transaction Fee Pilot'').
    \6\ See Cboe Global Markets, U.S. Equities Market Volume Summary 
(June 28, 2019), available at http://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/. See generally https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/divisionsmarketregmrexchangesshtml.html.
    \7\ See FINRA ATS Transparency Data (June 3, 2019), available at 
https://otctransparency.finra.org/otctransparency/AtsIssueData. 
Although 54 alternative trading systems were registered with the 
Commission as of May 31, 2019, only 31 are currently trading. A list 
of alternative trading systems registered with the Commission is 
available at https://www.sec.gov/foia/docs/atslist.htm.
    \8\ See Cboe Global Markets U.S. Equities Market Volume Summary 
(June 28, 2019), available at http://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/.
    \9\ See id.
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    The Exchange utilizes a ``taker-maker'' or inverted fee model to 
attract orders that provide liquidity at the most competitive prices. 
Under the taker-maker model, offering rebates for taking liquidity 
increases the likelihood that market participants will send orders to 
the Exchange to trade with liquidity providers' orders. This increased 
taker order flow provides an incentive for market participants to send 
orders that provide liquidity. The Exchange charges fees for order flow 
that provides liquidity. These fees are reasonable due to the 
additional marketable interest (in part attracted by the exchange's 
rebate to remove liquidity) with which those order flow providers can 
trade.
    The Exchange sets forth the fees it charges for adding liquidity in 
four Adding Tiers that establish minimum quoting or volume requirements 
that an ETP Holder must satisfy in order to be eligible for specific 
corresponding fees. These quoting and volume requirements are based on 
the type of liquidity (i.e.,

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adding, taking, displayed, non-displayed, BBO setting, or MPL) and the 
type of security (i.e., whether it is a Tape A, B or C security). In 
addition, the Exchange offers two ``step up'' Adding Tiers that do not 
have quoting or minimum volume requirements but require ETP Holders to 
provide additional incremental liquidity, thus ``stepping up'' their 
liquidity provision, in order to qualify for better pricing based on 
smaller amounts of liquidity than are required to qualify for Adding 
Tiers 1-3. The different tiers are designed to provide an incentive for 
order flow providers to add liquidity on the Exchange because the fees 
are lower for the tiers that have higher quoting or volume 
requirements. ETP Holders that do not send order flow to the Exchange 
to qualify for the Adding Tier rates would receive the rates set forth 
under item A (General Rates) of the Fee Schedule.
    To respond to this competitive environment, the Exchange proposes 
to adjust its pricing to reduce the adding ADV requirement ETP Holders 
must supply in order to qualify for the Adding Tier 1 fees. The 
Exchange's market share of intraday trading (i.e., excluding auctions) 
declined from 1.3% for the month of May 2019 to 1.2% for the month of 
June 2019.\10\ The proposed fee change is designed to attract 
additional order flow to the Exchange by making it easier to qualify 
for the Adding Tier 1 rates.
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    \10\ See id.
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Proposed Rule Change
    As described in more detail below, in order to qualify for the 
Adding Tier 1 fees, an ETP Holder must be quoting at a price that is 
equal to the National Best Bid (``NBB'') and National Best Offer 
(``NBO,'' together the ``NBBO'') a specified percentage of the time, in 
a specific number of securities and must have an adding ADV as a 
percentage of CADV of 0.20% or more. The Exchange proposes to lower the 
ADV percentage requirement that an ETP Holder must satisfy in order to 
qualify for the Adding Tier 1 rates. Without having a view of ETP 
Holder's activity on other markets and off-exchange venues, the 
Exchange believes that this reduction of the adding ADV requirement 
would be significant enough to incentivize market participants to 
increase their quoting on the Exchange to meet the new lower 
requirement, and thus be eligible for lower fees, and submit additional 
adding liquidity to the Exchange.
Adding Tier 1
    Under current Adding Tier 1, ETP Holders that add liquidity to the 
Exchange in securities with a per share price of $1.00 or more and 
that:
    (i) quote at the NBBO \11\ at least 5% of the time in 950 or more 
securities on an average daily basis, calculated monthly, and have an 
average daily volume (``ADV'') of adding liquidity as a percentage of 
US consolidated ADV (``CADV'') of 0.20% or more, or
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    \11\ See footnote ** in the current Fee Schedule.
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    (ii) quote at the NBBO at least 5% of the time in 2,450 or more 
securities on an average daily basis, calculated monthly, and have an 
ADV of adding liquidity as a percentage of US CADV of 0.10% or more, 
are charged the following fees:
     $0.0008 per share for adding displayed orders in Tape B 
and C securities and $0.0011 per share in Tape A securities;
     $0.0008 per share for orders that set a new Exchange BBO 
in Tape B and C securities and $0.0011 per share in Tape A securities;
     $0.0010 per share for adding non-displayed orders in Tape 
B and C securities and $0.0013 per share in Tape A securities; and
     $0.0005 per share for MPL orders.
    The Exchange proposes to amend the adding ADV requirements for the 
first of the two alternative methods described in (i) above to qualify 
for the tier by reducing the percentage from 0.20% or more to 0.15% or 
more. As proposed, the first alternative would require ETP Holders to 
quote at least 5% of the time at the NBBO in 950 or more securities on 
an average daily basis, calculated monthly, and have an ADV of adding 
liquidity as a percentage of CADV of 0.15% or more (as opposed to 0.20% 
or more). The fees charged under the Adding Tier 1 would not change.
Application of Proposed Fee Change
    The proposed rule change is designed to provide order flow 
providers with an incentive to route liquidity-providing order flow to 
the Exchange. As described above, ETP Holders with liquidity-providing 
order flow have a choice of where to send that order flow. The Exchange 
believes that if it reduces the requirements to qualify for tiers that 
have lower fees, more ETP Holders will choose to route their liquidity-
providing order flow to the Exchange to qualify for those tiers. The 
Exchange cannot predict with certainty how many ETP Holders would avail 
themselves of this opportunity, but believes that as many as 9 ETP 
Holders could qualify for these tiers if they so choose.\12\ Additional 
liquidity-providing order flow benefits all market participants because 
it provides greater execution opportunities on the Exchange.
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    \12\ In the month of June 2019, 9 ETP Holders had an Adding ADV 
of at least 0.025%.
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    For example, assume an ETP Holder quotes at least 5% of the NBBO in 
975 securities on an average daily basis, calculated monthly, and 
averages an ADV of 9 million shares of adding liquidity in a month 
where a billing month of US CADV is 7.2 billion, or 0.125% of CADV. 
Prior to the proposed change, that ETP Holder would fall short of the 
requirement for Tier 1, and would have instead qualified for Adding 
Tier 3. With this proposed change, this ETP Holder would now be 
eligible for Adding Tier 1 fees, which, except for MPL Adding fees, are 
lower than the Adding Tier 3fees [sic]. The Exchange believes that 
charging lower fees would create an incentive for liquidity providers 
to direct order flow to the Exchange, which in turn would create 
additional execution opportunities for all market participants.
    The proposed changes are not otherwise intended to address any 
other issues, and the Exchange is not aware of any problems that ETP 
Holders would have in complying with the proposed change.
2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with Section 6(b) of the Act,\13\ in general, and furthers the 
objectives of Sections 6(b)(4) and 6(b)(5) of the Act,\14\ in 
particular, because it provides for the equitable allocation of 
reasonable dues, fees, and other charges among its members, issuers and 
other persons using its facilities and does not unfairly discriminate 
between customers, issuers, brokers or dealers.
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    \13\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \14\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4) & (5).
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The Proposed Change Is Reasonable
    The Exchange operates in a highly competitive market. 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

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broader forms that are most important to investors and listed 
companies.'' \15\
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    \15\ See Regulation NMS, 70 FR at 37499.
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    As the Commission itself recognized, the market for trading 
services in NMS stocks has become ``more fragmented and competitive.'' 
\16\ Indeed, equity trading is currently dispersed across 13 
exchanges,\17\ 31 alternative trading systems,\18\ and numerous broker-
dealer internalizers and wholesalers. Based on publicly-available 
information, no single exchange has more than 18% of the market share 
of executed volume of equity trades (whether excluding or including 
auction volume).\19\ Therefore, no exchange possesses significant 
pricing power in the execution of equity order flow. More specifically, 
in June 2019, the Exchange had 1.2% market share of executed volume of 
equity trades (excluding auction volume).\20\
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    \16\ See Transaction Fee Pilot, 84 FR at 5253.
    \17\ See Cboe Global Markets, U.S. Equities Market Volume 
Summary (June 28, 2019), available at http://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/. See generally https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/divisionsmarketregmrexchangesshtml.html.
    \18\ See FINRA ATS Transparency Data (June 3, 2019), available 
at https://otctransparency.finra.org/otctransparency/AtsIssueData. 
Although 54 alternative trading systems were registered with the 
Commission as of May 31, 2019, only 31 are currently trading. A list 
of alternative trading systems registered with the Commission is 
available at https://www.sec.gov/foia/docs/atslist.htm.
    \19\ See Cboe Global Markets U.S. Equities Market Volume Summary 
(June 28, 2019), available at http://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/.
    \20\ See id.
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    The Exchange believes that the ever-shifting market share among the 
exchanges from month to month demonstrates that market participants can 
move order flow, or discontinue or reduce use of certain categories of 
products, in response to fee changes. With respect to non-marketable 
order flow that would provide displayed liquidity on an Exchange, ETP 
Holders can choose from any one of the 13 currently operating 
registered exchanges to route such order flow. Accordingly, competitive 
forces constrain exchange transaction fees that relate to orders that 
would provide displayed liquidity on an exchange.
    Given this competitive environment, the proposal represents a 
reasonable attempt to attract additional order flow to the Exchange by 
making it easier to qualify for the Adding Tier 1 rates. As noted, the 
Exchange's market share of intraday trading (i.e., excluding auctions) 
declined from 1.3% for the month of May 2019 to 1.2% for the month of 
June 2019.\21\ The Exchange believes that the proposal represents a 
reasonable attempt to encourage the submission of additional liquidity 
to a national securities exchange, thus promoting price discovery and 
transparency and enhancing order execution opportunities for ETP 
Holders from the substantial amounts of liquidity present on the 
Exchange. All ETP Holders would benefit from the greater amounts of 
liquidity that will be present on the Exchange, which would provide 
greater execution opportunities.
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The Proposal Is an Equitable Allocation of Fees
    The Exchange believes its proposal equitably allocates its fees 
among its market participants. The Exchange is not proposing to adjust 
the amount of the Adding Tier 1 fees, which will remain at the current 
level for all market participants. Rather, the proposal would continue 
to encourage ETP Holders to send orders to the Exchange, thereby 
contributing to robust levels of liquidity, which benefits all market 
participants. The Exchange believes that, for the reasons discussed 
above, lowering the adding ADV requirement would make it easier for 
current and new liquidity providers to qualify for the Adding Tier 1 
fees, thereby encouraging submission of additional liquidity to the 
Exchange. The proposed change will thereby encourage the submission of 
additional liquidity to a national securities exchange, thus promoting 
price discovery and transparency and enhancing order execution 
opportunities for ETP Holders from the substantial amounts of liquidity 
present on the Exchange. All ETP Holders would benefit from the greater 
amounts of liquidity that will be present on the Exchange, which would 
provide greater execution opportunities.
    The Exchange notes that there are currently 2 ETP Holders 
qualifying for Adding Tier 1 and that, based on current participation 
on the Exchange, no additional firms would initially qualify with the 
lower requirements. Without having a view of an ETP Holder's activity 
on other markets and off-exchange venues, the Exchange believes the 
proposed lower adding ADV requirement would provide an incentive for 
market participants to increase the orders they send to the Exchange in 
order to meet the new lower requirement and submit additional adding 
liquidity to the Exchange. In addition, based on the profile of 
liquidity-providing firms generally, the Exchange believes that 9 firms 
could qualify for these tiers if they choose to direct order flow to, 
and increase quoting on, the Exchange.
    The proposal neither targets nor will it have a disparate impact on 
any particular category of market participant. The Exchange believes 
that the proposal constitutes an equitable allocation of fees because 
all similarly situated ETP Holders and other market participants would 
be charged the same rates. Moreover, the proposed change is equitable 
because all qualifying ETP Holders that add liquidity to the Exchange 
and quote at the NBBO in Adding Tier 1 would be eligible for the fee by 
satisfying the lowered threshold, and because the lower threshold would 
apply equally to all similarly situated ETP Holders. The Exchange 
further believes that the proposed changes would not permit unfair 
discrimination among ETP Holders because the tiered rates are available 
equally to all ETP Holders. As described above, in today's competitive 
marketplace, order flow providers have a choice of where to direct 
liquidity-providing order flow, and while only 2 ETP Holders have 
qualified to date for these rates, the Exchange believes there are 
additional ETP Holders that could qualify if they chose to direct their 
order flow to the Exchange.
The Proposal Is Not Unfairly Discriminatory
    The Exchange believes that the proposal is not unfairly 
discriminatory. In the prevailing competitive environment, member 
organizations are free to disfavor the Exchange's pricing if they 
believe that alternatives offer them better value.
    The proposal neither targets nor will it have a disparate impact on 
any particular category of market participant. The Exchange believes 
that the proposal does not permit unfair discrimination because the 
proposal would be applied to all similarly situated ETP Holders and 
other market participants would be charged the same rates.
    The Exchange further believes that the proposal does not permit 
unfair discrimination because the Exchange will be making the Adding 
Tier 1 rates available to all ETP Holders on an equal basis. 
Accordingly, no ETP Holder already operating on the Exchange would be 
disadvantaged by this allocation of fees. For the same reasons, the 
Exchange believes that the proposal would not permit unfair 
discrimination among ETP Holders. The Exchange believes that the 
proposed change is not unfairly discriminatory because all qualifying 
ETP Holders that add liquidity to the Exchange and quote at the NBBO in 
Adding Tier 1 would be eligible for the fee by satisfying the lowered 
threshold, and because the

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lower thresholds would apply equally to all similarly situated ETP 
Holders.
    The Exchange further believes that the proposed changes would not 
permit unfair discrimination among ETP Holders because the tiered rates 
are available equally to all ETP Holders. As described above, in 
today's competitive marketplace, order flow providers have a choice of 
where to direct liquidity-providing order flow, and while only 2 ETP 
Holders currently are qualified for these rates, the Exchange believes 
there are additional ETP Holders that could qualify if they chose to 
direct their order flow to the Exchange.
    Finally, the Exchange believes that it is subject to significant 
competitive forces, as described below in the Exchange's statement 
regarding the burden on competition.
    For the foregoing reasons, the Exchange believes that the proposal 
is consistent with the Act.

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

    In accordance with Section 6(b)(8) of the Act,\22\ the Exchange 
believes that the proposed rule change would not impose any burden on 
competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the 
purposes of the Act. Instead, as discussed above, the Exchange believes 
that the proposed changes would encourage the submission of additional 
liquidity to a public exchange by making it easier for liquidity 
providers to qualify for the Adding Tier 1 fees, thereby increasing the 
likelihood that market participants will send orders to the Exchange to 
trade with the liquidity providers' orders and thus promoting market 
depth, price discovery and transparency and enhancing order execution 
opportunities for ETP Holders. 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.'' \23\
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    \22\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(8).
    \23\ Regulation NMS, 70 FR at 37498-99.
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    Intramarket Competition. The proposed change is designed to attract 
additional order flow to the Exchange by reducing the amount of adding 
ADV an ETP Permit holder is required to supply for the Adding Tier 1. 
Greater liquidity benefits all market participants on the Exchange by 
providing more trading opportunities and encourages ETP Holders to send 
orders, thereby contributing to robust levels of liquidity, which 
benefits all market participants. The proposed reduced requirement 
would be available to all similarly-situated market participants, and, 
as such, the proposed change would not impose a disparate burden on 
competition among market participants on the Exchange.
    Intermarket Competition. The Exchange operates in a highly 
competitive market in which market 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. The 
Exchange notes that Exchange's market share of intraday trading 
(excluding auctions) declined from 1.3% for the month of May 2019 to 
1.2% for the month of June 2019.\24\ In such an environment, the 
Exchange must continually adjust its fees and rebates to remain 
competitive with other exchanges and with off-exchange venues. Because 
competitors are free to modify their own fees and credits in response, 
and because market participants may readily adjust their order routing 
practices, the Exchange does not believe its proposed fee change can 
impose any burden on intermarket competition.
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    The Exchange believes that the proposed change could promote 
competition between the Exchange and other execution venues, including 
those that currently offer similar order types and comparable 
transaction pricing, by encouraging additional orders to be sent to the 
Exchange for execution.

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

    No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the 
proposed rule change.

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

    The foregoing rule change is effective upon filing pursuant to 
Section 19(b)(3)(A) \25\ of the Act and subparagraph (f)(2) of Rule 
19b-4 \26\ thereunder, because it establishes a due, fee, or other 
charge imposed by the Exchange.
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    \25\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \26\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(2).
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    At any time within 60 days of the filing of such 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 shall institute proceedings under 
Section 19(b)(2)(B) \27\ of the Act to determine whether the proposed 
rule change should be approved or disapproved.
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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-NYSENAT-2019-16 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-NYSENAT-2019-16. 
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 offices 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

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to make available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number 
SR-NYSENAT-2019-16, and should be submitted on or before August 8, 
2019.
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    \28\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\28\
Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
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