82_FR_61029 82 FR 60784 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a Decommission Extension Fee for Receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed Market Data Product

82 FR 60784 - Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a Decommission Extension Fee for Receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed Market Data Product

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 245 (December 22, 2017)

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FR Document2017-27562

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 245 (Friday, December 22, 2017)
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 245 (Friday, December 22, 2017)]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-82344; File No. SR-NYSEARCA-2017-142]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing 
and Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt a 
Decommission Extension Fee for Receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed 
Market Data Product

December 18, 2017.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934 (the ``Act'') \2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby 
given that, on December 12, 2017, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or 
``NYSE Arca'') 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 self-regulatory 
organization. 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 adopt a Decommission Extension Fee for 
receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed market data product. 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 adopt a Decommission Extension Fee for 
receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed market data product,\4\ as set 
forth on the NYSE Arca Equities Proprietary Market Data Fee Schedule 
(``Fee Schedule'').\5\ Recipients of NYSE Arca Integrated Feed would 
continue to be subject to the already existing subscription fees 
currently set forth in the Fee Schedule. The proposed Decommission 
Extension Fee would apply only to subscribers who choose to continue to 
receive the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed in its legacy format for up to 
two months after the previously-announced date for the end of 
distribution in the legacy format, after which the feed will be 
distributed exclusively in the new format as notified to customers 
previously and further explained below. The Exchange has provided 
customers with adequate notice that it intends to discontinue 
dissemination of the data feed in the legacy format, having first 
announced this to customers in June 2017.\6\
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    \4\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 65669 (November 2, 
2011), 76 FR 69311 (November 8, 2011) (SR-NYSEArca-2011-78) (notice 
of filing and immediate effectiveness of proposed rule change 
offering the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed). See also Securities 
Exchange Act Release Nos. 66128 (January 10, 2012), 77 FR 2331 
(January 17, 2012) (SR-NYSEArca-2011-96) (establishing fees for NYSE 
Arca Integrated Feed); 69315 (April 5, 2013), 78 FR 21668 (April 11, 
2013) (SR-NYSEArca-2013-37) (establishing non-display usage fees); 
73011 (September 5, 2014), 79 FR 54315 (September 11, 2014) (SR-
NYSEArca-2014-93) (amending non-display usage fees); 76914 (January 
14, 2016), 81 FR 3484 (January 21, 2016) (SR-NYSEArca-2016-03) 
(amending fees for NYSE Arca Integrated Feed); and 82100 (November 
16, 2017), 82 FR 55660 (November 22, 2017) (SR-NYSEArca-2017-130) 
(amending fees for NYSE Arca Integrated Feed).
    \5\ The Exchange originally filed to amend the Fee Schedule on 
November 29, 2017 (SR-NYSEArca-2017-136) and withdrew such filing on 
December 12, 2017.
    \6\ See Trader Update at https://www.nyse.com/trader-update/history#110000065786. See also https://www.nyse.com/trader-update/history#110000078705.
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    As part of the Exchange's efforts to regularly upgrade systems to 
support more modern data distribution formats and protocols as 
technology evolves, beginning August 21, 2017, NYSE Arca Integrated 
Feed began transmitting in a new format, Exchange Data Protocol (XDP). 
Since August 21, 2017, the Exchange has been transmitting NYSE Arca 
Integrated Feed in both the legacy format and in XDP format without any 
additional fee being charged for providing this data feed in both 
formats. The dual dissemination remained in place until November 30, 
2017, the planned decommission date of the legacy format.
    The purpose of the proposed Decommission Extension Fee is to 
provide customers an incentive to fully transition to the XDP format so 
the Exchange does not have to continue to support both the legacy 
format and the XDP format and incur, for example, the costs involved in 
maintaining additional servers and monitoring multiple distribution 
channels and testing environments not needed by the XDP format. 
Therefore, beginning December 1, 2017, recipients of NYSE Arca 
Integrated Feed who wish to continue to receive NYSE Arca Integrated 
Feed in the legacy format will be subject to the proposed Decommission 
Extension Fee of $5,000 per month.\7\ During the

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extension period, recipients of NYSE Arca Integrated Feed would 
continue to be subject to the subscription fees currently noted in the 
Fee Schedule. The extension period for receiving this data feed in the 
legacy format will expire on January 30, 2018, on which date 
distribution of NYSE Arca Integrated Feed in the legacy format will be 
permanently discontinued as previously announced to customers.
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    \7\ The concept of a Decommission Extension Fee is not novel. 
The Exchange's affiliates, NYSE and NYSE American, have both 
previously adopted a Decommission Extension Fee for receipt of 
multiple market data products when those products migrated to the 
XDP format. See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 79286 (November 
10, 2016), 81 FR 81186 (November 17, 2016) (SR-NYSE-2016-73); 79287 
(November 10, 2016), 81 FR 81216 (November 17, 2016) (SR-NYSEMKT-
2016-100); 77388 (March 17, 2016), 81 FR 15363 (March 22, 2016) (SR-
NYSE-2016-21); and 77389 (March 17, 2016), 81 FR 15375 [sic] (March 
22, 2016) (SR-NYSEMKT-2016-37).
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2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with the provisions of Section 6 of the Act,\8\ in general, and 
Sections 6(b)(4) and 6(b)(5) of the Act,\9\ in particular, in that it 
provides an equitable allocation of reasonable fees among users and 
recipients of the data and is not designed to permit unfair 
discrimination among customers, issuers, and brokers.
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    \8\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \9\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4), (5).
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    The Exchange believes that adopting an extension fee for 
subscribers of NYSE Arca Integrated Feed who wish to receive this data 
feed in the legacy format for a period of time beyond the built-in 
overlap period is reasonable, equitable and not unfairly discriminatory 
because the proposed fee would apply equally to all data recipients 
that subscribe to NYSE Arca Integrated Feed. The Exchange believes that 
it is reasonable to require data recipients to pay the proposed 
Decommission Extension fee during the extension period for taking the 
data feed in the legacy format beyond the period of time specifically 
allotted by the Exchange for data feed customers to adapt to the new 
XDP format at no extra cost. To that end, the extension fee is designed 
to encourage data recipients to migrate to the XDP format in order to 
continue to receive NYSE Arca Integrated in XDP as the legacy format 
would no longer be available after close of trading on January 30, 
2018. The Exchange does not intend to support the legacy format at all 
after January 30, 2018.
    The Exchange notes that NYSE Arca Integrated Feed is entirely 
optional. Firms are not required to purchase NYSE Arca Integrated Feed, 
nor is the Exchange required to offer any feed (NYSE Arca Integrated 
Feed, or otherwise) in a particular format, and it is a benefit to the 
markets generally that NYSE Arca update its distribution technology to 
make it more efficient (and at the same time eliminate less efficient 
forms of dissemination). Firms that do purchase NYSE Arca Integrated 
Feed do so for the primary goals of using them to increase revenues, 
reduce expenses, and in some instances compete directly with the 
Exchange (including for order flow); those firms are able to determine 
for themselves whether NYSE Arca Integrated Feed or any other similar 
products are attractively priced or not.\10\
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    \10\ See, e.g., Proposing Release on Regulation of NMS Stock 
Alternative Trading Systems, Securities Exchange Act Release No. 
76474 (Nov. 18, 2015) (File No. S7-23-15). See also, ``Brokers 
Warned Not to Steer Clients' Stock Trades Into Slow Lane,'' 
Bloomberg Business, December 14, 2015 (Sigma X dark pool to use 
direct exchange feeds as the primary source of price data).
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    The decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District 
of Columbia Circuit in NetCoalition v. SEC, 615 F.3d 525 (DC Cir. 
2010), upheld reliance by the Securities and Exchange Commission 
(``Commission'') upon the existence of competitive market mechanisms to 
set reasonable and equitably allocated fees for proprietary market 
data:

    In fact, the legislative history indicates that the Congress 
intended that the market system `evolve through the interplay of 
competitive forces as unnecessary regulatory restrictions are 
removed' and that the SEC wield its regulatory power `in those 
situations where competition may not be sufficient,' such as in the 
creation of a `consolidated transactional reporting system.'

    Id. at 535 (quoting H.R. Rep. No. 94-229 at 92 (1975), as reprinted 
in 1975 U.S.C.C.A.N. 323). The court agreed with the Commission's 
conclusion that ``Congress intended that `competitive forces should 
dictate the services and practices that constitute the U.S. national 
market system for trading equity securities.' '' \11\
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    \11\ NetCoalition, 615 F.3d at 535.
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    As explained below in the Exchange's Statement on Burden on 
Competition, the Exchange believes that there is substantial evidence 
of competition in the marketplace for proprietary market data and that 
the Commission can rely upon such evidence in concluding that the fees 
established in this filing are the product of competition and therefore 
satisfy the relevant statutory standards. In addition, the existence of 
alternatives to the legacy format, such as converting to XDP as soon as 
possible, further ensures that the Exchange cannot set unreasonable 
fees, or fees that are unreasonably discriminatory, when vendors and 
subscribers can select such alternatives.
    As the NetCoalition decision noted, the Commission is not required 
to undertake a cost-of-service or ratemaking approach. The Exchange 
believes that, even if it were possible as a matter of economic theory, 
cost-based pricing for proprietary market data would be so complicated 
that it could not be done practically or offer any significant 
benefits.\12\
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    \12\ The Exchange believes that cost-based pricing would be 
impractical because it would create enormous administrative burdens 
for all parties and the Commission to cost-regulate a large number 
of participants and standardize and analyze extraordinary amounts of 
information, accounts, and reports. In addition, it is impossible to 
regulate market data prices in isolation from prices charged by 
markets for other services that are joint products. Cost-based rate 
regulation would also lead to litigation and may distort incentives, 
including those to minimize costs and to innovate, leading to 
further waste. Under cost-based pricing, the Commission would be 
burdened with determining a fair rate of return, and the industry 
could experience frequent rate increases based on escalating expense 
levels. Even in industries historically subject to utility 
regulation, cost-based ratemaking has been discredited. As such, the 
Exchange believes that cost-based ratemaking would be inappropriate 
for proprietary market data and inconsistent with Congress's 
direction that the Commission use its authority to foster the 
development of the national market system, and that market forces 
will continue to provide appropriate pricing discipline. See 
Appendix C to NYSE's comments to the Commission's 2000 Concept 
Release on the Regulation of Market Information Fees and Revenues, 
which can be found on the Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/s72899/buck1.htm. Finally, the prices set 
herein are prices for continuing to support distribution formats the 
Exchange has elected to retire in favor of new and more efficient 
distribution formats, making cost-based analyses even less relevant.
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    For these reasons, the Exchange believes that the proposed fees are 
reasonable, equitable, and not unfairly discriminatory.

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. An exchange's ability to 
price its proprietary market data feed products is constrained by 
actual competition for the sale of proprietary market data products, 
the joint product nature of exchange platforms,\13\ and the existence 
of alternatives to the Exchange's proprietary data (and in this 
instance, the ability of any firm to switch to the new distribution 
format in a time frame

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    \13\ See generally Pricing of Market Data Services, An Economic 
Analysis at vi (``Given the general structure of electronic order 
books and electronic order matching, it is not possible to provide 
transaction services without generating market data, and it is not 
possible to generate trade transaction--or market depth--data 
without also supplying a trade execution service. In economic terms, 
trade execution and market data are joint products.'') (Oxera 2014).
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    The market for proprietary data products is currently competitive 
and inherently contestable because there is fierce competition for the 
inputs necessary for the creation of proprietary data and strict 
pricing discipline for the proprietary products themselves. Numerous 
exchanges compete with one another for listings and order flow and 
sales of market data itself, providing ample opportunities for 
entrepreneurs who wish to compete in any or all of those areas, 
including producing and distributing their own market data. Proprietary 
data products are produced and distributed by each individual exchange, 
as well as other entities, in a vigorously competitive market. Indeed, 
the U.S. Department of Justice (``DOJ'') (the primary antitrust 
regulator) has expressly acknowledged the aggressive actual competition 
among exchanges, including for the sale of proprietary market data. In 
2011, the DOJ stated that exchanges ``compete head to head to offer 
real-time equity data products. These data products include the best 
bid and offer of every exchange and information on each equity trade, 
including the last sale.'' \14\
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    \14\ Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice, Assistant 
Attorney General Christine Varney Holds Conference Call Regarding 
NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. Abandoning 
Their Bid for NYSE Euronext (May 16, 2011), available at http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/atr/speeches/2011/at-speech-110516.html; see 
also Complaint in U.S. v. Deutsche Borse AG and NYSE Euronext, Case 
No. 11-cv-2280 (DC Dist.) ] 24 (``NYSE and Direct Edge compete head-
to-head . . . in the provision of real-time proprietary equity data 
products.'').
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    Moreover, competitive markets for listings, order flow, executions, 
and transaction reports provide pricing discipline for the inputs of 
proprietary data products and therefore constrain markets from 
overpricing proprietary market data. Broker-dealers send their order 
flow and transaction reports to multiple venues, rather than providing 
them all to a single venue, which in turn reinforces this competitive 
constraint. As a 2010 Commission Concept Release noted, the ``current 
market structure can be described as dispersed and complex'' with 
``trading volume . . . dispersed among many highly automated trading 
centers that compete for order flow in the same stocks'' and ``trading 
centers offer[ing] a wide range of services that are designed to 
attract different types of market participants with varying trading 
needs.'' \15\ More recently, former SEC Chair Mary Jo White has noted 
that competition for order flow in exchange-listed equities is 
``intense'' and divided among many trading venues, including exchanges, 
more than 40 alternative trading systems, and more than 250 broker-
dealers.\16\ And as the Commission's own Chief Administrative Law Judge 
found after considering extensive fact and expert testimony and 
documentary evidence on the subject, ``there is fierce competition for 
trading services (or `order flow')'' among exchanges, and ``the record 
evidence shows that competition plays a significant role in restraining 
exchange pricing of depth-of-book products.'' In the Matter of the 
Application of Securities Industry And Financial Markets Association 
For Review of Actions Taken By Self-Regulatory Organizations, Initial 
Decision Release No. 1015, Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-15350 
(June 1, 2016), at pp. 8 and 33.
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    \15\ Concept Release on Equity Market Structure, Securities 
Exchange Act Release No. 61358 (Jan. 14, 2010), 75 FR 3594 (Jan. 21, 
2010) (File No. S7-02-10). This Concept Release included data from 
the third quarter of 2009 showing that no market center traded more 
than 20% of the volume of listed stocks, further evidencing the 
dispersal of and competition for trading activity. Id. at 3598. 
According to NYSE Internal Database and Consolidated Tape 
Statistics, in aggregate, from January 1, 2016 to October 31, 2017, 
no exchange traded more than 14% of the volume of listed stocks by 
either trade or dollar volume, further evidencing the continued 
dispersal of and fierce competition for trading activity.
    \16\ Mary Jo White, Enhancing Our Equity Market Structure, 
Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P. Global Exchange and Brokerage 
Conference (June 5, 2014) (available on the Commission website), 
citing Tuttle, Laura, 2014, ``OTC Trading: Description of Non-ATS 
OTC Trading in National Market System Stocks,'' at 7-8.
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    If an exchange succeeds in competing for quotations, order flow, 
and trade executions, then it earns trading revenues and increases the 
value of its proprietary market data products because they will contain 
greater quote and trade information. Conversely, if an exchange is less 
successful in attracting quotes, order flow, and trade executions, then 
its market data products may be less desirable to customers in light of 
the diminished content and data products offered by competing venues 
may become more attractive. Thus, competition for quotations, order 
flow, and trade executions puts significant pressure on an exchange to 
maintain both execution and data fees at reasonable levels.
    In addition, in the case of products that are also redistributed 
through market data vendors, such as Bloomberg and Thompson Reuters, 
the vendors themselves provide additional price discipline for 
proprietary data products because they control the primary means of 
access to certain end users. These vendors impose price discipline 
based upon their business models. For example, vendors that assess a 
surcharge on data they sell are able to refuse to offer proprietary 
products that their end users do not or will not purchase in sufficient 
numbers. Vendors will not elect to make available NYSE Arca Integrated 
Feed in the legacy format unless their customers request it, and 
customers will not elect to pay the proposed fees unless NYSE Arca 
Integrated Feed in the legacy format can provide value by sufficiently 
increasing revenues or reducing costs in the customer's business in a 
manner that will offset the fees. And as noted above, the Exchange has 
provided customers with adequate notice that it intends to discontinue 
dissemination of the data feed in the legacy format.\17\ Therefore, the 
proposed Decommission Extension Fee would only be applicable to those 
customers who have a need or desire to continue to take the data feed 
in the legacy format beyond the period provided for migration to the 
XDP format. Customers who timely migrate to the XDP format to receive 
the data feed would not need to receive the data feed in the legacy 
format and therefore would not be subject to the Decommission Extension 
Fee at all. All of these factors operate as constraints on pricing 
proprietary data products.
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    \17\ See supra note 6.
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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) \18\ of the Act and subparagraph (f)(2) of Rule 
19b-4 \19\ thereunder, because it establishes a due, fee, or other 
charge imposed by the Exchange.
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    \18\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \19\ 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) \20\ of the Act to

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determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or 
disapproved.
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    \20\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).
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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 [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-NYSEARCA-2017-142 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

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

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSEARCA-2017-142. 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-NYSEARCA-2017-142 and should be 
submitted on or before January 12, 2018.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\21\
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    \21\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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                                                only one method. The Commission will                    the Securities and Exchange                            Recipients of NYSE Arca Integrated
                                                post all comments on the Commission’s                   Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) the                    Feed would continue to be subject to the
                                                internet website (http://www.sec.gov/                   proposed rule change as described in                   already existing subscription fees
                                                rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the                         Items I, II, and III below, which Items                currently set forth in the Fee Schedule.
                                                submission, all subsequent                              have been prepared by the self-                        The proposed Decommission Extension
                                                amendments, all written statements                      regulatory organization. The                           Fee would apply only to subscribers
                                                with respect to the proposed rule                       Commission is publishing this notice to                who choose to continue to receive the
                                                change that are filed with the                          solicit comments on the proposed rule                  NYSE Arca Integrated Feed in its legacy
                                                Commission, and all written                             change from interested persons.                        format for up to two months after the
                                                communications relating to the                                                                                 previously-announced date for the end
                                                                                                        I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                proposed rule change between the                                                                               of distribution in the legacy format, after
                                                                                                        Statement of the Terms of Substance of
                                                Commission and any person, other than                                                                          which the feed will be distributed
                                                                                                        the Proposed Rule Change
                                                those that may be withheld from the                                                                            exclusively in the new format as
                                                public in accordance with the                              The Exchange proposes to adopt a                    notified to customers previously and
                                                provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be                     Decommission Extension Fee for receipt                 further explained below. The Exchange
                                                available for website viewing and                       of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed                       has provided customers with adequate
                                                printing in the Commission’s Public                     market data product. The proposed rule                 notice that it intends to discontinue
                                                Reference Room, 100 F Street NE,                        change is available on the Exchange’s                  dissemination of the data feed in the
                                                Washington, DC 20549 on official                        website at www.nyse.com, at the                        legacy format, having first announced
                                                business days between the hours of                      principal office of the Exchange, and at               this to customers in June 2017.6
                                                10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such                 the Commission’s Public Reference                         As part of the Exchange’s efforts to
                                                filing also will be available for                       Room.                                                  regularly upgrade systems to support
                                                inspection and copying at the principal                 II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s                     more modern data distribution formats
                                                office of the Exchange. All comments                    Statement of the Purpose of, and                       and protocols as technology evolves,
                                                received will be posted without change.                 Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule                 beginning August 21, 2017, NYSE Arca
                                                Persons submitting comments are                         Change                                                 Integrated Feed began transmitting in a
                                                cautioned that we do not redact or edit                                                                        new format, Exchange Data Protocol
                                                personal identifying information from                      In its filing with the Commission, the
                                                                                                        self-regulatory organization included                  (XDP). Since August 21, 2017, the
                                                comment submissions. You should                                                                                Exchange has been transmitting NYSE
                                                submit only information that you wish                   statements concerning the purpose of,
                                                                                                        and basis for, the proposed rule change                Arca Integrated Feed in both the legacy
                                                to make available publicly. All                                                                                format and in XDP format without any
                                                submissions should refer to File                        and discussed any comments it received
                                                                                                        on the proposed rule change. The text                  additional fee being charged for
                                                Number SR–NYSE–2017–68, and                                                                                    providing this data feed in both formats.
                                                should be submitted on or before                        of those statements may be examined at
                                                                                                        the places specified in Item IV below.                 The dual dissemination remained in
                                                January 12, 2018.                                                                                              place until November 30, 2017, the
                                                                                                        The Exchange has prepared summaries,
                                                  For the Commission, by the Division of                set forth in sections A, B, and C below,               planned decommission date of the
                                                Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated                                                                     legacy format.
                                                authority.16
                                                                                                        of the most significant parts of such
                                                                                                        statements.                                               The purpose of the proposed
                                                Robert W. Errett,                                                                                              Decommission Extension Fee is to
                                                Deputy Secretary.                                       A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s                      provide customers an incentive to fully
                                                [FR Doc. 2017–27561 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]            Statement of the Purpose of, and the                   transition to the XDP format so the
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                                                                                                        Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule                 Exchange does not have to continue to
                                                                                                        Change                                                 support both the legacy format and the
                                                                                                        1. Purpose                                             XDP format and incur, for example, the
                                                SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE                                                                                        costs involved in maintaining additional
                                                COMMISSION                                                 The Exchange proposes to adopt a                    servers and monitoring multiple
                                                                                                        Decommission Extension Fee for receipt                 distribution channels and testing
                                                [Release No. 34–82344; File No. SR–                     of the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed
                                                NYSEARCA–2017–142]                                                                                             environments not needed by the XDP
                                                                                                        market data product,4 as set forth on the              format. Therefore, beginning December
                                                                                                        NYSE Arca Equities Proprietary Market                  1, 2017, recipients of NYSE Arca
                                                Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
                                                                                                        Data Fee Schedule (‘‘Fee Schedule’’).5                 Integrated Feed who wish to continue to
                                                Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and
                                                Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed                        4 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 65669
                                                                                                                                                               receive NYSE Arca Integrated Feed in
                                                Rule Change To Adopt a                                  (November 2, 2011), 76 FR 69311 (November 8,           the legacy format will be subject to the
                                                Decommission Extension Fee for                          2011) (SR–NYSEArca–2011–78) (notice of filing and      proposed Decommission Extension Fee
                                                Receipt of the NYSE Arca Integrated                     immediate effectiveness of proposed rule change        of $5,000 per month.7 During the
                                                                                                        offering the NYSE Arca Integrated Feed). See also
                                                Feed Market Data Product                                Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 66128
                                                                                                        (January 10, 2012), 77 FR 2331 (January 17, 2012)      2017–136) and withdrew such filing on December
                                                December 18, 2017.                                      (SR–NYSEArca–2011–96) (establishing fees for           12, 2017.
                                                   Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the                NYSE Arca Integrated Feed); 69315 (April 5, 2013),        6 See Trader Update at https://www.nyse.com/

                                                Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the                    78 FR 21668 (April 11, 2013) (SR–NYSEArca–2013–        trader-update/history#110000065786. See also
                                                                                                        37) (establishing non-display usage fees); 73011       https://www.nyse.com/trader-update/history
                                                ‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3                  (September 5, 2014), 79 FR 54315 (September 11,        #110000078705.
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                                                notice is hereby given that, on December                2014) (SR–NYSEArca–2014–93) (amending non-                7 The concept of a Decommission Extension Fee

                                                12, 2017, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the                          display usage fees); 76914 (January 14, 2016), 81 FR   is not novel. The Exchange’s affiliates, NYSE and
                                                ‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed with               3484 (January 21, 2016) (SR–NYSEArca–2016–03)          NYSE American, have both previously adopted a
                                                                                                        (amending fees for NYSE Arca Integrated Feed); and     Decommission Extension Fee for receipt of multiple
                                                                                                        82100 (November 16, 2017), 82 FR 55660                 market data products when those products migrated
                                                  16 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).                            (November 22, 2017) (SR–NYSEArca–2017–130)             to the XDP format. See Securities Exchange Act
                                                  1 15 U.S.C.78s(b)(1).                                 (amending fees for NYSE Arca Integrated Feed).         Release Nos. 79286 (November 10, 2016), 81 FR
                                                  2 15 U.S.C. 78a.                                         5 The Exchange originally filed to amend the Fee    81186 (November 17, 2016) (SR–NYSE–2016–73);
                                                  3 17 CFR 240.19b–4.                                   Schedule on November 29, 2017 (SR–NYSEArca–            79287 (November 10, 2016), 81 FR 81216



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                                                extension period, recipients of NYSE                    technology to make it more efficient                  undertake a cost-of-service or
                                                Arca Integrated Feed would continue to                  (and at the same time eliminate less                  ratemaking approach. The Exchange
                                                be subject to the subscription fees                     efficient forms of dissemination). Firms              believes that, even if it were possible as
                                                currently noted in the Fee Schedule.                    that do purchase NYSE Arca Integrated                 a matter of economic theory, cost-based
                                                The extension period for receiving this                 Feed do so for the primary goals of                   pricing for proprietary market data
                                                data feed in the legacy format will                     using them to increase revenues, reduce               would be so complicated that it could
                                                expire on January 30, 2018, on which                    expenses, and in some instances                       not be done practically or offer any
                                                date distribution of NYSE Arca                          compete directly with the Exchange                    significant benefits.12
                                                Integrated Feed in the legacy format will               (including for order flow); those firms                 For these reasons, the Exchange
                                                be permanently discontinued as                          are able to determine for themselves                  believes that the proposed fees are
                                                previously announced to customers.                      whether NYSE Arca Integrated Feed or                  reasonable, equitable, and not unfairly
                                                                                                        any other similar products are                        discriminatory.
                                                2. Statutory Basis
                                                                                                        attractively priced or not.10
                                                   The Exchange believes that the                          The decision of the United States                  B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                proposed rule change is consistent with                 Court of Appeals for the District of                  Statement on Burden on Competition
                                                the provisions of Section 6 of the Act,8                Columbia Circuit in NetCoalition v.                     The Exchange does not believe that
                                                in general, and Sections 6(b)(4) and                    SEC, 615 F.3d 525 (DC Cir. 2010),                     the proposed rule change will impose
                                                6(b)(5) of the Act,9 in particular, in that             upheld reliance by the Securities and                 any burden on competition that is not
                                                it provides an equitable allocation of                  Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’)                  necessary or appropriate in furtherance
                                                reasonable fees among users and                         upon the existence of competitive                     of the purposes of the Act. An
                                                recipients of the data and is not                       market mechanisms to set reasonable                   exchange’s ability to price its
                                                designed to permit unfair                               and equitably allocated fees for                      proprietary market data feed products is
                                                discrimination among customers,                         proprietary market data:                              constrained by actual competition for
                                                issuers, and brokers.                                      In fact, the legislative history indicates that    the sale of proprietary market data
                                                   The Exchange believes that adopting                  the Congress intended that the market system          products, the joint product nature of
                                                an extension fee for subscribers of NYSE                ‘evolve through the interplay of competitive          exchange platforms,13 and the existence
                                                Arca Integrated Feed who wish to                        forces as unnecessary regulatory restrictions         of alternatives to the Exchange’s
                                                receive this data feed in the legacy                    are removed’ and that the SEC wield its
                                                                                                        regulatory power ‘in those situations where           proprietary data (and in this instance,
                                                format for a period of time beyond the
                                                                                                        competition may not be sufficient,’ such as           the ability of any firm to switch to the
                                                built-in overlap period is reasonable,
                                                                                                        in the creation of a ‘consolidated                    new distribution format in a time frame
                                                equitable and not unfairly
                                                                                                        transactional reporting system.’
                                                discriminatory because the proposed fee
                                                                                                                                                                 12 The Exchange believes that cost-based pricing
                                                would apply equally to all data                            Id. at 535 (quoting H.R. Rep. No. 94–
                                                                                                                                                              would be impractical because it would create
                                                recipients that subscribe to NYSE Arca                  229 at 92 (1975), as reprinted in 1975                enormous administrative burdens for all parties and
                                                Integrated Feed. The Exchange believes                  U.S.C.C.A.N. 323). The court agreed                   the Commission to cost-regulate a large number of
                                                that it is reasonable to require data                   with the Commission’s conclusion that                 participants and standardize and analyze
                                                recipients to pay the proposed                          ‘‘Congress intended that ‘competitive                 extraordinary amounts of information, accounts,
                                                                                                                                                              and reports. In addition, it is impossible to regulate
                                                Decommission Extension fee during the                   forces should dictate the services and                market data prices in isolation from prices charged
                                                extension period for taking the data feed               practices that constitute the U.S.                    by markets for other services that are joint products.
                                                in the legacy format beyond the period                  national market system for trading                    Cost-based rate regulation would also lead to
                                                of time specifically allotted by the                    equity securities.’ ’’ 11                             litigation and may distort incentives, including
                                                                                                           As explained below in the Exchange’s               those to minimize costs and to innovate, leading to
                                                Exchange for data feed customers to                                                                           further waste. Under cost-based pricing, the
                                                adapt to the new XDP format at no extra                 Statement on Burden on Competition,                   Commission would be burdened with determining
                                                cost. To that end, the extension fee is                 the Exchange believes that there is                   a fair rate of return, and the industry could
                                                designed to encourage data recipients to                substantial evidence of competition in                experience frequent rate increases based on
                                                                                                        the marketplace for proprietary market                escalating expense levels. Even in industries
                                                migrate to the XDP format in order to                                                                         historically subject to utility regulation, cost-based
                                                continue to receive NYSE Arca                           data and that the Commission can rely                 ratemaking has been discredited. As such, the
                                                Integrated in XDP as the legacy format                  upon such evidence in concluding that                 Exchange believes that cost-based ratemaking
                                                would no longer be available after close                the fees established in this filing are the           would be inappropriate for proprietary market data
                                                                                                        product of competition and therefore                  and inconsistent with Congress’s direction that the
                                                of trading on January 30, 2018. The                                                                           Commission use its authority to foster the
                                                Exchange does not intend to support the                 satisfy the relevant statutory standards.             development of the national market system, and
                                                legacy format at all after January 30,                  In addition, the existence of alternatives            that market forces will continue to provide
                                                2018.                                                   to the legacy format, such as converting              appropriate pricing discipline. See Appendix C to
                                                                                                        to XDP as soon as possible, further                   NYSE’s comments to the Commission’s 2000
                                                   The Exchange notes that NYSE Arca                                                                          Concept Release on the Regulation of Market
                                                Integrated Feed is entirely optional.                   ensures that the Exchange cannot set                  Information Fees and Revenues, which can be
                                                Firms are not required to purchase                      unreasonable fees, or fees that are                   found on the Commission’s website at http://
                                                NYSE Arca Integrated Feed, nor is the                   unreasonably discriminatory, when                     www.sec.gov/rules/concept/s72899/buck1.htm.
                                                Exchange required to offer any feed                     vendors and subscribers can select such               Finally, the prices set herein are prices for
                                                                                                        alternatives.                                         continuing to support distribution formats the
                                                (NYSE Arca Integrated Feed, or                                                                                Exchange has elected to retire in favor of new and
                                                otherwise) in a particular format, and it                  As the NetCoalition decision noted,                more efficient distribution formats, making cost-
                                                is a benefit to the markets generally that              the Commission is not required to                     based analyses even less relevant.
                                                                                                                                                                 13 See generally Pricing of Market Data Services,
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                                                NYSE Arca update its distribution                         10 See, e.g., Proposing Release on Regulation of    An Economic Analysis at vi (‘‘Given the general
                                                                                                        NMS Stock Alternative Trading Systems, Securities     structure of electronic order books and electronic
                                                (November 17, 2016) (SR–NYSEMKT–2016–100);              Exchange Act Release No. 76474 (Nov. 18, 2015)        order matching, it is not possible to provide
                                                77388 (March 17, 2016), 81 FR 15363 (March 22,          (File No. S7–23–15). See also, ‘‘Brokers Warned Not   transaction services without generating market data,
                                                2016) (SR–NYSE–2016–21); and 77389 (March 17,           to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane,’’      and it is not possible to generate trade transaction—
                                                2016), 81 FR 15375 [sic] (March 22, 2016) (SR–          Bloomberg Business, December 14, 2015 (Sigma X        or market depth—data without also supplying a
                                                NYSEMKT–2016–37).                                       dark pool to use direct exchange feeds as the         trade execution service. In economic terms, trade
                                                  8 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).                                   primary source of price data).                        execution and market data are joint products.’’)
                                                  9 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4), (5).                             11 NetCoalition, 615 F.3d at 535.                   (Oxera 2014).



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                                                that eliminates the need to pay these                   Chair Mary Jo White has noted that                     example, vendors that assess a
                                                fees entirely).                                         competition for order flow in exchange-                surcharge on data they sell are able to
                                                   The market for proprietary data                      listed equities is ‘‘intense’’ and divided             refuse to offer proprietary products that
                                                products is currently competitive and                   among many trading venues, including                   their end users do not or will not
                                                inherently contestable because there is                 exchanges, more than 40 alternative                    purchase in sufficient numbers. Vendors
                                                fierce competition for the inputs                       trading systems, and more than 250                     will not elect to make available NYSE
                                                necessary for the creation of proprietary               broker-dealers.16 And as the                           Arca Integrated Feed in the legacy
                                                data and strict pricing discipline for the              Commission’s own Chief Administrative                  format unless their customers request it,
                                                proprietary products themselves.                        Law Judge found after considering                      and customers will not elect to pay the
                                                Numerous exchanges compete with one                     extensive fact and expert testimony and                proposed fees unless NYSE Arca
                                                another for listings and order flow and                 documentary evidence on the subject,                   Integrated Feed in the legacy format can
                                                sales of market data itself, providing                  ‘‘there is fierce competition for trading              provide value by sufficiently increasing
                                                ample opportunities for entrepreneurs                   services (or ‘order flow’)’’ among                     revenues or reducing costs in the
                                                who wish to compete in any or all of                    exchanges, and ‘‘the record evidence                   customer’s business in a manner that
                                                those areas, including producing and                    shows that competition plays a                         will offset the fees. And as noted above,
                                                distributing their own market data.                     significant role in restraining exchange               the Exchange has provided customers
                                                Proprietary data products are produced                  pricing of depth-of-book products.’’ In                with adequate notice that it intends to
                                                and distributed by each individual                      the Matter of the Application of                       discontinue dissemination of the data
                                                exchange, as well as other entities, in a               Securities Industry And Financial                      feed in the legacy format.17 Therefore,
                                                vigorously competitive market. Indeed,                  Markets Association For Review of                      the proposed Decommission Extension
                                                the U.S. Department of Justice (‘‘DOJ’’)                Actions Taken By Self-Regulatory                       Fee would only be applicable to those
                                                (the primary antitrust regulator) has                   Organizations, Initial Decision Release                customers who have a need or desire to
                                                expressly acknowledged the aggressive                   No. 1015, Administrative Proceeding                    continue to take the data feed in the
                                                actual competition among exchanges,                     File No. 3–15350 (June 1, 2016), at pp.                legacy format beyond the period
                                                including for the sale of proprietary                   8 and 33.                                              provided for migration to the XDP
                                                market data. In 2011, the DOJ stated that                  If an exchange succeeds in competing                format. Customers who timely migrate
                                                exchanges ‘‘compete head to head to                     for quotations, order flow, and trade                  to the XDP format to receive the data
                                                offer real-time equity data products.                   executions, then it earns trading                      feed would not need to receive the data
                                                These data products include the best bid                revenues and increases the value of its                feed in the legacy format and therefore
                                                and offer of every exchange and                         proprietary market data products                       would not be subject to the
                                                information on each equity trade,                       because they will contain greater quote                Decommission Extension Fee at all. All
                                                including the last sale.’’ 14                           and trade information. Conversely, if an               of these factors operate as constraints on
                                                   Moreover, competitive markets for                    exchange is less successful in attracting              pricing proprietary data products.
                                                listings, order flow, executions, and                   quotes, order flow, and trade
                                                transaction reports provide pricing                     executions, then its market data                       C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
                                                discipline for the inputs of proprietary                products may be less desirable to                      Statement on Comments on the
                                                data products and therefore constrain                   customers in light of the diminished                   Proposed Rule Change Received From
                                                markets from overpricing proprietary                    content and data products offered by                   Members, Participants, or Others
                                                market data. Broker-dealers send their                  competing venues may become more                         No written comments were solicited
                                                order flow and transaction reports to                   attractive. Thus, competition for                      or received with respect to the proposed
                                                multiple venues, rather than providing                  quotations, order flow, and trade                      rule change.
                                                them all to a single venue, which in turn               executions puts significant pressure on
                                                reinforces this competitive constraint.                 an exchange to maintain both execution                 III. Date of Effectiveness of the
                                                As a 2010 Commission Concept Release                    and data fees at reasonable levels.                    Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
                                                noted, the ‘‘current market structure can                  In addition, in the case of products                Commission Action
                                                be described as dispersed and complex’’                 that are also redistributed through                       The foregoing rule change is effective
                                                with ‘‘trading volume . . . dispersed                   market data vendors, such as Bloomberg                 upon filing pursuant to Section
                                                among many highly automated trading                     and Thompson Reuters, the vendors                      19(b)(3)(A) 18 of the Act and
                                                centers that compete for order flow in                  themselves provide additional price                    subparagraph (f)(2) of Rule 19b–4 19
                                                the same stocks’’ and ‘‘trading centers                 discipline for proprietary data products               thereunder, because it establishes a due,
                                                offer[ing] a wide range of services that                because they control the primary means                 fee, or other charge imposed by the
                                                are designed to attract different types of              of access to certain end users. These                  Exchange.
                                                market participants with varying trading                vendors impose price discipline based                     At any time within 60 days of the
                                                needs.’’ 15 More recently, former SEC                   upon their business models. For                        filing of such proposed rule change, the
                                                                                                                                                               Commission summarily may
                                                   14 Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice,        traded more than 20% of the volume of listed           temporarily suspend such rule change if
                                                Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney Holds       stocks, further evidencing the dispersal of and
                                                Conference Call Regarding NASDAQ OMX Group              competition for trading activity. Id. at 3598.         it appears to the Commission that such
                                                Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. Abandoning       According to NYSE Internal Database and                action is necessary or appropriate in the
                                                Their Bid for NYSE Euronext (May 16, 2011),             Consolidated Tape Statistics, in aggregate, from       public interest, for the protection of
                                                available at http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/atr/        January 1, 2016 to October 31, 2017, no exchange       investors, or otherwise in furtherance of
                                                speeches/2011/at-speech-110516.html; see also           traded more than 14% of the volume of listed stocks
                                                Complaint in U.S. v. Deutsche Borse AG and NYSE         by either trade or dollar volume, further evidencing   the purposes of the Act. If the
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                                                Euronext, Case No. 11–cv–2280 (DC Dist.) ¶ 24           the continued dispersal of and fierce competition      Commission takes such action, the
                                                (‘‘NYSE and Direct Edge compete head-to-head . . .      for trading activity.                                  Commission shall institute proceedings
                                                in the provision of real-time proprietary equity data      16 Mary Jo White, Enhancing Our Equity Market
                                                                                                                                                               under Section 19(b)(2)(B) 20 of the Act to
                                                products.’’).                                           Structure, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. Global
                                                   15 Concept Release on Equity Market Structure,       Exchange and Brokerage Conference (June 5, 2014)        17 See supra note 6.
                                                Securities Exchange Act Release No. 61358 (Jan. 14,     (available on the Commission website), citing
                                                                                                                                                                18 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
                                                2010), 75 FR 3594 (Jan. 21, 2010) (File No. S7–02–      Tuttle, Laura, 2014, ‘‘OTC Trading: Description of
                                                                                                                                                                19 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(2).
                                                10). This Concept Release included data from the        Non-ATS OTC Trading in National Market System
                                                third quarter of 2009 showing that no market center     Stocks,’’ at 7–8.                                       20 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2)(B).




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                                                determine whether the proposed rule                       For the Commission, by the Division of               of these determinations be published in
                                                change should be approved or                            Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated             the Federal Register.
                                                disapproved.                                            authority.21
                                                                                                                                                               Alyson Grunder,
                                                                                                        Robert W. Errett,
                                                IV. Solicitation of Comments                                                                                   Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Bureau
                                                                                                        Deputy Secretary.
                                                  Interested persons are invited to                                                                            of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
                                                                                                        [FR Doc. 2017–27562 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
                                                submit written data, views, and                                                                                Department of State.
                                                                                                        BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
                                                arguments concerning the foregoing,                                                                            [FR Doc. 2017–27620 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
                                                including whether the proposed rule                                                                            BILLING CODE 4710–05–P
                                                change is consistent with the Act.
                                                Comments may be submitted by any of
                                                the following methods:                                  DEPARTMENT OF STATE                                    DEPARTMENT OF STATE
                                                Electronic Comments                                     [Public Notice 10232]                                  [Public Notice 10231]
                                                   • Use the Commission’s internet
                                                comment form (http://www.sec.gov/                       Notice of Determinations; Culturally                   Notice of Determinations; Culturally
                                                rules/sro.shtml); or                                    Significant Objects Imported for                       Significant Objects Imported for
                                                   • Send an email to rule-comments@                    Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Diamond                   Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘Heavenly
                                                sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–                 Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in                     Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic
                                                NYSEARCA–2017–142 on the subject                        Korean Art’’ Exhibition                                Imagination’’ Exhibition
                                                line.
                                                                                                        SUMMARY:   Notice is hereby given of the               SUMMARY:   Notice is hereby given of the
                                                Paper Comments                                          following determinations: I hereby                     following determinations: I hereby
                                                   • Send paper comments in triplicate                  determine that certain objects to be                   determine that twenty-four objects to be
                                                to Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Securities               included in the exhibition ‘‘Diamond                   included in the exhibition ‘‘Heavenly
                                                and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street                   Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in                     Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic
                                                NE, Washington, DC 20549–1090.                          Korean Art,’’ imported from abroad for                 Imagination,’’ imported from abroad for
                                                All submissions should refer to File                    temporary exhibition within the United                 temporary exhibition within the United
                                                Number SR–NYSEARCA–2017–142.                            States, are of cultural significance. The              States, are of cultural significance. The
                                                This file number should be included on                  objects are imported pursuant to loan                  objects are imported pursuant to loan
                                                the subject line if email is used. To help              agreements with the foreign owners or                  agreements with the foreign owners or
                                                the Commission process and review                       custodians. I also determine that the                  custodians. I also determine that the
                                                your comments more efficiently, please                  exhibition or display of the exhibit                   exhibition or display of the exhibit
                                                use only one method. The Commission                     objects at The Metropolitan Museum of
                                                will post all comments on the                                                                                  objects at The Metropolitan Museum of
                                                                                                        Art, New York, New York, from on or                    Art, New York, New York, from on or
                                                Commission’s internet website (http://                  about February 7, 2018, until on or
                                                www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). Copies of                                                                        about May 10, 2018, until on or about
                                                                                                        about May 20, 2018, and at possible                    October 8, 2018, and at possible
                                                the submission, all subsequent                          additional exhibitions or venues yet to
                                                amendments, all written statements                                                                             additional exhibitions or venues yet to
                                                                                                        be determined, is in the national                      be determined, is in the national
                                                with respect to the proposed rule                       interest.
                                                change that are filed with the                                                                                 interest.
                                                Commission, and all written                             FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                                                                                                                               FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                communications relating to the                          Elliot Chiu in the Office of the Legal
                                                proposed rule change between the                                                                               Elliot Chiu in the Office of the Legal
                                                                                                        Adviser, U.S. Department of State                      Adviser, U.S. Department of State
                                                Commission and any person, other than                   (telephone: 202–632–6471; email:
                                                those that may be withheld from the                                                                            (telephone: 202–632–6471; email:
                                                                                                        section2459@state.gov). The mailing                    section2459@state.gov). The mailing
                                                public in accordance with the                           address is U.S. Department of State,
                                                provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be                                                                            address is U.S. Department of State,
                                                                                                        L/PD, SA–5, Suite 5H03, Washington,                    L/PD, SA–5, Suite 5H03, Washington,
                                                available for website viewing and                       DC 20522–0505.
                                                printing in the Commission’s Public                                                                            DC 20522–0505.
                                                Reference Room, 100 F Street NE,                        SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:      The                    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:      The
                                                Washington, DC 20549 on official                        foregoing determinations were made                     foregoing determinations were made
                                                business days between the hours of                      pursuant to the authority vested in me                 pursuant to the authority vested in me
                                                10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the                  by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat.               by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat.
                                                filing also will be available for                       985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), E.O. 12047 of                    985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), E.O. 12047 of
                                                inspection and copying at the principal                 March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs                    March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs
                                                office of the Exchange. All comments                    Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998
                                                received will be posted without change.                                                                        Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998
                                                                                                        (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501               (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501
                                                Persons submitting comments are                         note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority
                                                cautioned that we do not redact or edit                                                                        note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority
                                                                                                        No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation                 No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation
                                                personal identifying information from
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                                                                                                        of Authority No. 236–3 of August 28,                   of Authority No. 236–3 of August 28,
                                                comment submissions. You should                         2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of
                                                submit only information that you wish                                                                          2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of
                                                                                                        Authority No. 257–1 of December 11,                    Authority No. 257–1 of December 11,
                                                to make available publicly. All                         2015). I have ordered that Public Notice
                                                submissions should refer to File                                                                               2015). I have ordered that Public Notice
                                                Number SR–NYSEARCA–2017–142 and
                                                should be submitted on or before
                                                January 12, 2018.                                         21 17   CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).



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