80 FR 51850 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a Kill Switch for NOM

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-75743; File No. SR-NASDAQ-2015-096]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC; 
Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a Kill Switch for NOM

August 20, 2015.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act'') \1\, and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given 
that on August 7, 2015, The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (``Nasdaq'' 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\ 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 Chapter VI, Section 6, entitled 
``Acceptance of Quotes and Orders,'' of the rules governing the NASDAQ 
Options Market (``NOM'' or ``Exchange''). The Exchange proposes to 
adopt an optional Kill Switch protection.
    The text of the proposed rule change is available on the Exchange's 
Web site at http://nasdaq.cchwallstreet.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 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 purpose of the filing is to adopt a new risk protection, a Kill 
Switch, applicable to all NOM Participants. The Kill Switch will allow 
NOM Participants to remove quotes and cancel open orders and prevent 
new order submission. This feature provides firms with a powerful risk 
management tool for immediate control of their quote and order 
activity.
    The Exchange proposes to amend Chapter VI, Section 6, entitled 
``Acceptance of Quotes and Orders,'' to add new section (d) to adopt 
the Kill Switch. The NASDAQ Options Kill Switch will be an optional 
tool that enables Participants to initiate a message(s) \3\ to the 
System to: (i) Promptly remove quotes; and/or (ii) promptly cancel 
orders. Participants may submit a request to the System to remove/
cancel quotes and/or orders based on certain identifiers on either a 
user or group level. Participants may elect to remove quotes and cancel 
orders by Exchange account, port, and/or badge or mnemonic 
(``Identifier'') or by a group (one or more Identifier 
combinations),\4\ which are provided by such Participant to the 
Exchange.\5\ Participants may not remove quotes/orders by symbol. The 
System will send an automated message to the Participant when a Kill 
Switch request has been processed by the Exchange's System.
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    \3\ NOM Participants will be able to utilize an interface to 
send a message to the Exchange to initiate the Kill Switch or they 
may contact the Exchange directly.
    \4\ The type of group permissible would be within a broker-
dealer. For example, this could be including but not limited to all 
market maker accounts or all order entry ports.
    \5\ Orders submitted by NOM Market Makers over Ouch to Trade 
Options (OTTO) interface will be treated as quotes for purposes of 
this rule.
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    If the Participant selects quotes to be cancelled utilizing the 
Kill Switch, the NOM Participant must send a message to the Exchange to 
request the removal of all quotes requested for the certain specified 
Identifier(s).\6\ The NOM Participant will be unable to enter any 
additional quotes for the affected Identifier(s) until re-entry has 
been enabled pursuant to proposed section (d)(iii).\7\
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    \6\ See note 3.
    \7\ Sweeps will also be cancelled. A sweep is a one-sided 
electronic quote submitted over the Specialized Quote Feed, which is 
the market making quoting interface.
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    If the Participant selects orders to be cancelled utilizing the 
Kill Switch, the NOM Participant must send a message to the Exchange to 
request the cancellation of all orders requested for the certain 
specified Identifier(s).\8\ The NOM Participant will be unable to enter 
additional orders for the affected Identifier(s) until re-entry has 
been enabled pursuant to section (d)(iii).
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    \8\ See note 3.
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    Proposed section (d)(iii) stipulates that after quotes and/or 
orders are removed/cancelled by the NOM Participant utilizing the Kill 
Switch, the NOM Participant will be unable to enter additional quotes 
and/or orders for the affected Identifier(s) until the NOM Participant 
has made a request to the Exchange and Exchange staff has set a re-
entry indicator to enable re-entry.\9\ Once enabled for re-entry, the 
System will send a Re-entry Notification Message to the NOM 
Participant. The applicable Clearing Participant for that NOM 
Participant also will be notified of the re-entry into the System after 
quotes and/or orders are removed/cancelled as a result of the Kill 
Switch, provided the Clearing Participant has requested to receive such 
notification.
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    \9\ The NOM Participant must directly and verbally contact the 
Exchange to request the re-set.
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    The Exchange offers many risk mitigation and management tools today 
including, but not limited to, certain rapid fire risk controls,\10\ 
15c3-5 risk controls, Order Price Protections,\11\ and cancel on 
disconnect and purge functionality for Specialized Quote Feed (SQF), 
Ouch to Trade Orders (OTTO) and FIX. The Kill Switch offers 
Participants a means to control their exposure, through an interface 
which is not dependent on the integrity of the Participant's own 
systems, should the Participant experience a failure.
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    \10\ See NOM Rules at Chapter VII, Section 6(f).
    \11\ See NOM Rules at Chapter VI, Section 18.
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    The Exchange proposes to implement this rule within ninety (90) 
days of the implementation date. The Exchange will issue an Options 
Trader Alert in advance to inform market participants of such date.
2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that its proposal is consistent with Section 
6(b) of the Act \12\ in general, and furthers the objectives of Section 
6(b)(5) of the Act \13\ in particular, in that it is designed to 
promote just and equitable principles of trade, to remove impediments 
to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and a national 
market system, and, in general to protect investors and the public 
interest, by enhancing the risk protections available

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to Exchange members. The proposal promotes policy goals of the 
Commission which has encouraged execution venues, exchange and non-
exchange alike, to enhance risk protection tools and other mechanisms 
to decrease risk and increase stability.
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    \12\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \13\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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    The individual firm benefits of enhanced risk protections flow 
downstream to counter-parties both at the Exchange and at other options 
exchanges, thereby increasing systemic protections as well. 
Additionally, because the Exchange offers this risk tool to all NOM 
Participants, the Exchange believes it will encourage liquidity 
generally and remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free 
and open market and a national market system and protect investors and 
the public interest.
    This optional risk tool as noted above will be offered to all NOM 
Participants. The Exchange further represents that its proposal will 
operate consistently with the firm quote obligations of a broker-dealer 
pursuant to Rule 602 of Regulation NMS and that the functionality is 
not mandatory. Specifically, any interest that is executable against a 
NOM Participant's quotes and orders that are received \14\ by the 
Exchange prior to the time the Kill Switch is processed by the System 
will automatically execute at the price up to the NOM Participant's 
size. The Kill Switch message will be accepted by the System in the 
order of receipt in the queue and will be processed in that order so 
that interest that is already accepted into the System will be 
processed prior to the Kill Switch message.
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    \14\ The time of receipt for an order or quote is the time such 
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    A NOM Market Makers' obligation to provide continuous two-sided 
quotes on a daily basis is not diminished by the removal of such quotes 
and/or orders by utilizing the Kill Switch. NOM Market Makers will be 
required to provide continuous two-sided quotes on a daily basis. NOM 
Market Makers that utilize the Kill Switch will not be relieved of the 
obligation to provide continuous two-sided quotes on a daily basis, nor 
will it prohibit the Exchange from taking disciplinary action against a 
NOM Market Maker for failing to meet the continuous quoting obligation 
each trading day.
    With respect to providing information regarding the removal of 
quotes and/or cancellation of orders as a result of the Kill Switch to 
the Clearing Participant, each Member that transacts through a Clearing 
Member on the Exchange executes a Letter of Guarantee wherein the 
Clearing Member accepts financial responsibility for all Exchange 
transactions made by the NOM Participant on whose behalf the Clearing 
Member submits the letter of guarantee. The Exchange believes that 
because Clearing Members guarantee all transactions on behalf of a 
Participant, and therefore bear the risk associated with those 
transactions, it is appropriate for Clearing Members to have knowledge 
of the utilization of the Kill Switch, should the Clearing Member 
request such notification.

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 not necessary or appropriate in 
furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The proposal does not impose an 
undue burden on inter-market competition because all NOM Participants 
may avail themselves of the Kill Switch, which functionality will be 
optional. The proposed rule change is meant to protect NOM Participants 
in the event the NOM Participant is suffering from a systems issue or 
from the occurrence of unusual or unexpected market activity that would 
require them to withdraw from the market in order to protect investors. 
The ability to control risk at either the user or group level will 
permit the NOM Participant to protect itself from inadvertent exposure 
to excessive risk at the each level. Reducing such risk will enable NOM 
Participants to enter quotes and orders without any fear of inadvertent 
exposure to excessive risk, which in turn will benefit investors 
through increased liquidity for the execution of their orders. Such 
increased liquidity benefits investors because they receive better 
prices and because it lowers volatility in the options market. For 
these reasons, the Exchange does not believe this proposal imposes an 
undue burden on inter-market competition, rather the proposed rule 
change will have no impact on competition.

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

    No written comments were either solicited or received.

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

    Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may 
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to 
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to 
which the Exchange consents, the Commission shall: (a) By order approve 
or disapprove such proposed rule change, or (b) institute proceedings 
to determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved.

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 [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-NASDAQ-2015-096 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-NASDAQ-2015-096. 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 Web site (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 Web site 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; the Commission does 
not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should 
submit only information that you wish to make available publicly.

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    All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NASDAQ-2015-096 and 
should be submitted on or before September 16, 2015.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\15\
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Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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to Exchange members. The proposal executes a Letter of Guarantee wherein as the Commission may designate up to
promotes policy goals of the the Clearing Member accepts financial 90 days of such date if it finds such
Commission which has encouraged responsibility for all Exchange longer period to be appropriate and
execution venues, exchange and non- transactions made by the NOM publishes its reasons for so finding or
exchange alike, to enhance risk Participant on whose behalf the Clearing (ii) as to which the Exchange consents,
protection tools and other mechanisms Member submits the letter of guarantee. the Commission shall: (a) By order
to decrease risk and increase stability. The Exchange believes that because approve or disapprove such proposed
The individual firm benefits of Clearing Members guarantee all rule change, or (b) institute proceedings
enhanced risk protections flow transactions on behalf of a Participant, to determine whether the proposed rule
downstream to counter-parties both at and therefore bear the risk associated change should be disapproved.
the Exchange and at other options with those transactions, it is appropriate
IV. Solicitation of Comments
exchanges, thereby increasing systemic for Clearing Members to have
protections as well. Additionally, knowledge of the utilization of the Kill Interested persons are invited to
because the Exchange offers this risk Switch, should the Clearing Member submit written data, views, and
tool to all NOM Participants, the request such notification. arguments concerning the foregoing,
Exchange believes it will encourage including whether the proposed rule
B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s change is consistent with the Act.
liquidity generally and remove Statement on Burden on Competition
impediments to and perfect the Comments may be submitted by any of
mechanism of a free and open market The Exchange does not believe that the following methods:
and a national market system and the proposed rule change will impose
Electronic Comments
protect investors and the public interest. any burden on competition not
This optional risk tool as noted above necessary or appropriate in furtherance • Use the Commission’s Internet
will be offered to all NOM Participants. of the purposes of the Act. The proposal comment form (http://www.sec.gov/
The Exchange further represents that its does not impose an undue burden on rules/sro.shtml); or
inter-market competition because all • Send an email to rule-comments@
proposal will operate consistently with
NOM Participants may avail themselves sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–
the firm quote obligations of a broker-
of the Kill Switch, which functionality NASDAQ–2015–096 on the subject line.
dealer pursuant to Rule 602 of
Regulation NMS and that the will be optional. The proposed rule Paper Comments
functionality is not mandatory. change is meant to protect NOM
• Send paper comments in triplicate
Specifically, any interest that is Participants in the event the NOM
to Secretary, Securities and Exchange
executable against a NOM Participant’s Participant is suffering from a systems
Commission, 100 F Street NE.,
quotes and orders that are received 14 by issue or from the occurrence of unusual
Washington, DC 20549–1090.
the Exchange prior to the time the Kill or unexpected market activity that
would require them to withdraw from All submissions should refer to File
Switch is processed by the System will Number SR–NASDAQ–2015–096. This
automatically execute at the price up to the market in order to protect investors.
The ability to control risk at either the file number should be included on the
the NOM Participant’s size. The Kill subject line if email is used. To help the
Switch message will be accepted by the user or group level will permit the NOM
Participant to protect itself from Commission process and review your
System in the order of receipt in the comments more efficiently, please use
queue and will be processed in that inadvertent exposure to excessive risk at
the each level. Reducing such risk will only one method. The Commission will
order so that interest that is already post all comments on the Commission’s
accepted into the System will be enable NOM Participants to enter quotes
and orders without any fear of Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/
processed prior to the Kill Switch rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
message. inadvertent exposure to excessive risk,
which in turn will benefit investors submission, all subsequent
A NOM Market Makers’ obligation to
through increased liquidity for the amendments, all written statements
provide continuous two-sided quotes on
execution of their orders. Such with respect to the proposed rule
a daily basis is not diminished by the
increased liquidity benefits investors change that are filed with the
removal of such quotes and/or orders by
because they receive better prices and Commission, and all written
utilizing the Kill Switch. NOM Market
because it lowers volatility in the communications relating to the
Makers will be required to provide
options market. For these reasons, the proposed rule change between the
continuous two-sided quotes on a daily
Exchange does not believe this proposal Commission and any person, other than
basis. NOM Market Makers that utilize
imposes an undue burden on inter- those that may be withheld from the
the Kill Switch will not be relieved of
market competition, rather the proposed public in accordance with the
the obligation to provide continuous
rule change will have no impact on provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
two-sided quotes on a daily basis, nor
competition. available for Web site viewing and
will it prohibit the Exchange from
printing in the Commission’s Public
taking disciplinary action against a C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Reference Room, 100 F Street NE.,
NOM Market Maker for failing to meet Statement on Comments on the Washington, DC 20549, on official
the continuous quoting obligation each Proposed Rule Change Received From business days between the hours of
trading day. Members, Participants, or Others 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the
With respect to providing information
No written comments were either filing also will be available for
regarding the removal of quotes and/or
solicited or received. inspection and copying at the principal
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cancellation of orders as a result of the
office of the Exchange. All comments
Kill Switch to the Clearing Participant, III. Date of Effectiveness of the received will be posted without change;
each Member that transacts through a Proposed Rule Change and Timing for the Commission does not edit personal
Clearing Member on the Exchange Commission Action identifying information from
14 The time of receipt for an order or quote is the Within 45 days of the date of submissions. You should submit only
time such message is processed by the Exchange publication of this notice in the Federal information that you wish to make
book. Register or within such longer period (i) available publicly.

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All submissions should refer to File at www.batstrading.com, at the securities platform when a technical or
Number SR–NASDAQ–2015–096 and principal office of the Exchange, and at system issue occurs. Rule 2.11 also
should be submitted on or before the Commission’s Public Reference describes the operation of an error
September 16, 2015. Room. account for BATS Trading. The
For the Commission, by the Division of Exchange proposes to make the
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated Statement of the Purpose of, and amendments to Rule 2.11 described
authority.15
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule below to align each subparagraph with
Robert W. Errett, Change the corresponding subparagraph within
Deputy Secretary. BZX and BYX Rules 2.11.8 Again, none
In its filing with the Commission, the of these proposed changes alter the
[FR Doc. 2015–21080 Filed 8–25–15; 8:45 am]
Exchange included statements authority of the Exchange or BATS
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concerning the purpose of and basis for Trading to cancel orders that result from
the proposed rule change and discussed a technical or system issue nor do they
any comments it received on the amend the operation of an error account
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
proposed rule change. The text of these for BATS Trading.
COMMISSION
statements may be examined at the First, the Exchange proposes to make
[Release No. 34–75746; File No. SR–EDGX– places specified in Item IV below. The the follow ministerial changes to Rule
2015–37] Exchange has prepared summaries, set 2.11 to conform to BZX and BYX Rules
forth in Sections A, B, and C below, of 2.11, none of which amend the
Self-Regulatory Organizations; EDGX the most significant parts of such
Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and substance or meaning of each section of
statements. the rule:
Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed
Rule Change to Rule 2.11, BATS (A) Self-Regulatory Organization’s • Add ‘‘, Inc.’’ after ‘‘BATS Trading’’
Trading as Outbound Router Statement of the Purpose of, and in the title of Rule 2.11 to align with the
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule title of BZX and BYX Rules 2.11; and
August 20, 2015. Change • Replace the word ‘‘accordance’’
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the with the word ‘‘compliance’’ in
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 1. Purpose subparagraph (a)(4) to align with BZX
‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 In early 2014, the Exchange and its and BYX Rules 2.11(a)(4);
notice is hereby given that on August affiliate, EDGA Exchange, Inc. None of the above changes alter the
11, 2015, EDGX Exchange, Inc. (the (‘‘EDGA’’), received approval to effect a meaning of each subparagraph. They are
‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘EDGX’’) filed with the merger (the ‘‘Merger’’) of the Exchange’s simply intended to align each
Securities and Exchange Commission parent company, Direct Edge Holdings subparagraph with the corresponding
(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule LLC, with BATS Global Markets, Inc., subparagraph within Rule 2.11.
change as described in Items I and II the parent of BZX and BYX (together Second, the Exchange proposes to
below, which Items have been prepared with EDGA, and EDGX, the ‘‘BGM amend Rule 2.11(a)(6) to align with BZX
by the Exchange. The Exchange has Affiliated Exchanges’’).6 In the context and BYX Rules 2.11(a)(6). Rule
designated this proposal as a ‘‘non- of the Merger, the BGM Affiliated 2.11(a)(6) will continue to provide that
controversial’’ proposed rule change Exchanges are working to align certain the Exchange or BATS Trading may
pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the system and regulatory functionality, cancel orders as either deems to be
Act 3 and Rule 19b–4(f)(6)(iii) retaining only intended differences necessary to maintain fair and orderly
thereunder,4 which renders it effective between the BGM Affiliated Exchanges. markets if a technical or systems issue
upon filing with the Commission. The Thus, the proposal set forth below is occurs at the Exchange, BATS Trading
Commission is publishing this notice to intended to amend Rule 2.11, BATS or a routing destination. The Exchange
solicit comments on the proposed rule Trading as an Outbound Router, to make proposes to replace: (i) The phrase ‘‘if
change from interested persons. such Rule identical to the corresponding and when a systems, technical or
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Rule 2.11 on BZX and BYX. The operational issue’’ with ‘‘if a technical
Statement of the Terms of Substance of Exchange does not propose to alter its or systems issue’’; and (ii) the term
the Proposed Rule Change current system functionality with regard ‘‘Trading Center’’ with ‘‘routing
to its use of BATS Trading, Inc. (‘‘BATS destination.’’ Replacement of these
The Exchange filed a proposal to Trading’’) as an outbound router and its terms do not alter the meaning of Rule
amend Rule 2.11, BATS Trading as use of an error account. Rather, the 2.11(a)(6). Rather, they simply align the
Outbound Router, in order to conform to proposed rule change is designed to rule’s text with that of BZX and BYX
the rules of BATS Exchange, Inc. provide a consistent rule set across each Rules 2.11(a)(6). To further align the
(‘‘BZX’’) and BATS Y-Exchange, Inc. of the BGM Affiliated Exchanges.7 rule text with BZX and BYX Rules
(‘‘BYX’’).5 Pursuant to Exchange Rule 2.11, the
The text of the proposed rule change 2.11(a)(6), the Exchange proposes to
Exchange relies on BATS Trading to delete the phrase ‘‘of orders’’ from the
is available at the Exchange’s Web site provide outbound routing services from last sentence of Exchange Rule
itself to a routing destination. Rule 2.11 2.11(a)(6). Rule 2.11(a)(6) will continue
15 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
1 15
also provides the authority to the to require that the Exchange or BATS
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
Exchange or BATS Trading to cancel Trading provide notice of the
3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A). orders on the Exchange’s equity cancellation of orders to affected
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4 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6)(iii).
6 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 71449
Members as soon as practicable.
5 See BZX and BYX Rules 2.11. See also
(January 30, 2014), 79 FR 6961 (February 5, 2014)
Third, the Exchange proposes to
Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 69744 (June
12, 2015), 78 FR 36612 (June 18, 2015) (SR–BYX– (SR–EDGX–2013–043; SR–EDGA–2013–034). amend Rule 2.11(a)(7) to align with BZX
2013–018); and 69744 (June 12, 2013), 78 FR 36621 7 See BZX and BYX Rules 2.11. The Exchange

(June 18, 2015) (SR–BATS–2013–032) (notices of notes that EDGA intends to file a similar proposal 8 The Exchange notes that it does not propose to

filing and immediate effectiveness of proposed rule that will align the rules related to its use of BATS amend Rules 2.11(a)(1)—(3) and (b) as those
changes to amend BYX and BZX Rules 2.11, Trading as an outbound router across each of the subparagraphs are identical to BZX and BYX Rules
entitled ‘‘BATS Trading, Inc. as Outbound Router’’). BGM Affiliated Exchanges. 2.11(a)(1)–(3) and (b).

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