83 FR 17577 - Order Making Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 77 (April 20, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 77 (April 20, 2018)
| Page Range | 17577-17582 | |
| FR Document | 2018-08339 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 17577-17582] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-08339] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34-83057/April 17, 2018] Order Making Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates I. Background Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') requires each national securities exchange and national securities association to pay transaction fees to the Commission.\1\ Specifically, Section 31(b) requires each national securities exchange to pay to the Commission fees based on the aggregate dollar amount of sales of certain securities (``covered sales'') transacted on the exchange.\2\ Section 31(c) requires each national securities association to pay to the Commission fees based on the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales transacted by or through any member of the association other than on an exchange.\3\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee. \2\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(b). \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(c). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 31 of the Exchange Act requires the Commission to annually adjust the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a uniform adjusted rate.\4\ Specifically, the Commission must adjust the fee rates to a uniform adjusted rate that is reasonably likely to produce aggregate fee collections (including assessments on security futures transactions) equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission for the applicable fiscal year.\5\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ In some circumstances, the SEC also must make a mid-year adjustment to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c). \5\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(1) (the Commission must adjust the rates under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a ``uniform adjusted rate that, when applied to the baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of sales for such fiscal year, is reasonably likely to produce aggregate fee collections under [Section 31] (including assessments collected under [Section 31(d)]) that are equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission by Congress for such fiscal year.''). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission is required to publish notice of the new fee rates under Section 31 not later than 30 days after the date on which an Act making a regular appropriation for the applicable fiscal year is enacted.\6\ On March 23, 2018, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which includes total appropriations of $1,896,507,052 to the SEC for fiscal year 2018. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \6\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(g). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 17578]] II. Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Adjustment to the Fee Rate The new fee rate is determined by (1) subtracting the sum of fees estimated to be collected prior to the effective date of the new fee rate \7\ and estimated assessments on security futures transactions to be collected under Section 31(d) of the Exchange Act for all of fiscal year 2018 \8\ from an amount equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2018, and (2) dividing by the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of the fiscal year following the effective date of the new fee rate.\9\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \7\ The sum of fees to be collected prior to the effective date of the new fee rate is determined by applying the current fee rate to the dollar amount of covered sales prior to the effective date of the new fee rate. The exchanges and FINRA have provided data on the dollar amount of covered sales through February, 2018. To calculate the dollar amount of covered sales from March, 2018 to the effective date of the new fee rate, the Commission is using the methodology described in the Appendix A of this order. \8\ The Commission is using the same methodology it has used previously to estimate assessments on security futures transactions to be collected in fiscal year 2018. An explanation of the methodology appears in Appendix A. \9\ To estimate the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2018 following the effective date of the new fee rate, the Commission is using the methodology described in Appendix A of this order. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As noted above, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, includes total appropriations of $1,896,507,052 to the Commission for fiscal year 2018.\10\ The Commission estimates that it will collect $1,387,201,997 in fees for the period prior to the effective date of the new fee rate and $41,227 in assessments on round turn transactions in security futures products during all of fiscal year 2018. Using the methodology described in Appendix A, the Commission estimates that the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2018 to be $39,323,689,064,673. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \10\ The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 includes an appropriation of $1,652,000,000 for necessary expenses for the Commission and an appropriation of $244,507,052 for costs associated with relocation under a replacement lease for the Commission's headquarters facilities. The act provides that ``for purposes of calculating the fee rate under section 31(j) of the [Exchange Act] for fiscal year 2018, all amounts appropriated [to the Commission in the act] shall be deemed to be the regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2018.'' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The uniform adjusted rate is computed by dividing the residual fees to be collected of $509,263,828 by the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2018 of $39,323,689,064,673; this results in a uniform adjusted rate for fiscal year 2018 of $13.00 per million.\11\ The reduction in the fee rate for fiscal year 2018 is due, in part, to the substantially higher dollar amount of covered sales in recent months. The Commission notes that if the dollar amount of covered sales deviates from current levels when the fee rate is next adjusted, a large reduction or increase in the fee rate may again be required; this is especially so if the next adjustment occurs later in the next fiscal year. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \11\ Appendix A shows the process of calculating the fiscal year 2018 annual adjustment and includes the data used by the Commission in making this adjustment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Effective Date of the Uniform Adjusted Rate Under Section 31(j)(4)(A) of the Exchange Act, the fiscal year 2018 annual adjustments to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act shall take effect on the later of October 1, 2017, or 60 days after the date on which a regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2018 is enacted.\12\ The regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2018 was enacted on March 23, 2018, and accordingly, the new fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act will take effect on May 22, 2018. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \12\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(4)(A). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Conclusion Accordingly, pursuant to Section 31 of the Exchange Act, it is hereby ordered that the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act shall be $13.00 per $1,000,000 effective on May 22, 2018. By the Commission. Eduardo A. Aleman, Assistant Secretary. Appendix A This appendix provides the methodology for determining the annual adjustment to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act for fiscal year 2018. Section 31 of the Exchange Act requires the fee rates to be adjusted so that it is reasonably likely that the Commission will collect aggregate fees equal to its regular appropriation for fiscal year 2018. To make the adjustment, the Commission must project the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales of securities on the securities exchanges and certain over-the-counter (``OTC'') markets over the course of the year. The fee rate equals the ratio of the Commission's regular appropriation for fiscal year 2018 (less the sum of fees to be collected during fiscal year 2018 prior to the effective date of the new fee rate and aggregate assessments on security futures transactions during all of fiscal year 2018) to the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of the fiscal year following the effective date of the new fee rate. For 2018, the Commission has estimated the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales by projecting forward the trend established in the previous decade. More specifically, the dollar amount of covered sales was forecasted for months subsequent to February 2018, the last month for which the Commission has data on the dollar volume of covered sales.\13\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \13\ To determine the availability of data, the Commission compares the date of the appropriation with the date the transaction data are due from the exchanges (10 business days after the end of the month). If the business day following the date of the appropriation is equal to or subsequent to the date the data are due from the exchanges, the Commission uses these data. The appropriation was signed on March 23, 2018. The first business day after this date was March 26, 2018. Data for February 2018 were due from the exchanges on March 14, 2018. As a result, the Commission used February 2018 and earlier data to forecast volume for March 2018 and later months. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following sections describe this process in detail. A. Baseline Estimate of the Aggregate Dollar Amount of Covered Sales for Fiscal Year 2018 First, calculate the average daily dollar amount of covered sales (``ADS'') for each month in the sample (January 2008-February 2018). The monthly total dollar amount of covered sales (exchange plus certain OTC markets) is presented in column C of Table A. Next, model the monthly change in the natural logarithm of ADS as a first order autoregressive process (``AR(1)''), including monthly indicator variables to control for seasonality. Use the estimated AR(1) model to forecast the monthly change in the log level of ADS. These percent changes can then be applied to obtain forecasts of the total dollar volume of covered sales. The following is a more formal (mathematical) description of the procedure: 1. Begin with the monthly data for total dollar volume of covered sales (column C). The sample spans ten years, from January 2008--February 2018.\14\ Divide each month's total dollar volume by the number of trading days in that month (column B) to obtain the average daily dollar volume (ADS, column D). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \14\ Because the model uses a one period lag in the change in the log level of average daily sales, two additional months of data are added to the table so that the model is estimated with 120 observations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. For each month t, calculate [Delta] LN ADS (shown in column E) as the log growth rate of ADS, that is, the difference between the natural logarithm of ADS in month t and its value in the prior month. 3. Estimate the AR(1) model [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.000 with Dtm representing monthly indicator variables, yt representing the log growth rate [[Page 17579]] in ADS ([Delta] LN ADS), and [egr]t representing the error term for month t. The model can be estimated using standard commercially available software. The estimated parameter values are [beta] = - 0.2028 and [alpha]1 - [alpha]12 as follows: [alpha]1 (JAN) = 0.0524, [alpha]2 (FEB) = 0.0733, [alpha]3 (MAR) = -0.0130, [alpha]4 (APR) = -0.0579, [alpha]5 (MAY) = 0.0406, [alpha]6 (JUN) = 0.0036, [alpha]7 (JUL) = - 0.0655, [alpha]8 (AUG) = -0.0151, [alpha]9 (SEP) = 0.0682, [alpha]10 (OCT) = 0.0354, [alpha]11 (NOV) = -0.0322, [alpha]12 (DEC) = - 0.0503. The root-mean squared error (RMSE) of the regression is 0.1085. 4. For the first month calculate the forecasted value of the log growth rate of ADS as [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.001 For the next month use the forecasted value of the log growth rate of the first month to calculate the forecast of the next month. This process iterates until a forecast is generated for all remaining months in the fiscal year. These data appear in column F. 5. Assuming that the regression error in the AR(1) model is normally distributed, the expected percentage change in average daily dollar volume from month to month t - 1 to month t is then given by the expression exp [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.004 where [sigma] denotes the root mean squared error of the regression (RMSE). 6. For instance, for March 2018, using the [beta] parameter and the [alpha]3 parameter (for March) above, and the change in the log-level ADS from February, 2018, we can estimate the change in the log growth in average daily sales as [beta]yFeb + [alpha]Mar = ((- 0.2028 x 0.2287) - 0.0130) = - 0.0594. This represents the estimated change in log average daily dollar volume for March 2018 relative to February 2018. To estimate the percent change in average daily sales from February 2018 to March 2018, use the formula shown in Step 5, above: exp [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.005 Apply this estimated percent change in ADS to the ADS for February 2018 to estimate the ADS for March 2018 as $459,232,655,928 x (1 - 0.0521) = $435,316,961,660. Multiply this by the 21 trading days in March 2018 to obtain a total dollar volume forecast of $9,141,656,194,853. 7. For April 2018, proceed in a similar fashion. Using the estimates for March 2018 along with the [beta] parameter and the [alpha]4 parameter (for April 2018) to generate a forecast for the one-month change in the log level of average daily sales. Convert the estimated log change in average daily sales to estimated percent change in ADS as in step 6, above to obtain a forecast ADS of $418,239,289,610. Multiply this figure by the 21 trading days in April 2018 to obtain a total dollar volume forecast of $8,783,025,081,808. 8. Repeat this procedure for subsequent months. B. Using the Forecasts From A To Calculate the new fee Rate 1. Use Table A to estimate fees collected for the period October 1, 2017 through May 21, 2018. The projected aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for this period is $60,052,034,517,716. Actual and projected fee collections at the current fee rate of $23.10 per million are $1,387,201,997. 2. Estimate the amount of assessments on security futures products collected from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. First, calculate the average and the standard deviation of the change in log average daily sales, in column E, for the 120 months ending February 2018. The average is 0.003357 and the standard deviation is 0.114918. These are used to estimate an average growth rate in ADS using the formula [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.006 This results in an average monthly increase of 1.001%. Apply this monthly increase to the last month for which single stock futures' assessments are available, which was $3,041.17, for February 2018. Estimate all subsequent months in fiscal year 2018 by applying the growth rate to the previously estimated monthly value, and sum the results. This totals $41,226.78 for the entire fiscal year. 3. Subtract the amounts $1,387,201,997 and $41,227 from the target off-setting collection amount set by Congress of $1,896,507,052, leaving $509,263,838 to be collected on dollar volume for the period May 22, 2018 through September 30, 2018. 4. Use Table A to estimate dollar volume for the period May 22, 2018 through September 30, 2018. The estimate is $39,323,689,064,673. Finally, compute the fee rate required to produce the additional $509,263,838 in revenue. This rate is $509,263,828 divided by $39,323,689,064,673 or 0.00001295056. 5. Round the result to the seventh decimal point, yielding a rate of 0.0000130 (or $13.00 per million). This table summarizes the estimates of the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales, by time period. The figures in this table can be used to determine the new fee rate. [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of trading Total dollar amount Average daily [Delta] LN Forecast Forecast average Forecast Total Month days in of sales dollar amount of ADS [Delta] daily dollar dollar amount of month sales (ADS) LN ADS amount of sales sales (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan-08................................ 21 7,997,242,071,529 380,821,051,025 ........... ......... ................. ................. Feb-08................................ 20 6,139,080,448,887 306,954,022,444 -0.21563 ......... ................. ................. Mar-08................................ 20 6,767,852,332,381 338,392,616,619 0.09751 ......... ................. ................. Apr-08................................ 22 6,150,017,772,735 279,546,262,397 -0.19104 ......... ................. ................. May-08................................ 21 6,080,169,766,807 289,531,893,657 0.03510 ......... ................. ................. Jun-08................................ 21 6,962,199,302,412 331,533,300,115 0.13546 ......... ................. ................. Jul-08................................ 22 8,104,256,787,805 368,375,308,537 0.10537 ......... ................. ................. Aug-08................................ 21 6,106,057,711,009 290,764,652,905 -0.23659 ......... ................. ................. [[Page 17580]] Sep-08................................ 21 8,156,991,919,103 388,428,186,624 0.28959 ......... ................. ................. Oct-08................................ 23 8,644,538,213,244 375,849,487,532 -0.03292 ......... ................. ................. Nov-08................................ 19 5,727,998,341,833 301,473,596,939 -0.22051 ......... ................. ................. Dec-08................................ 22 5,176,041,317,640 235,274,605,347 -0.24793 ......... ................. ................. Jan-09................................ 20 4,670,249,433,806 233,512,471,690 -0.00752 ......... ................. ................. Feb-09................................ 19 4,771,470,184,048 251,130,009,687 0.07274 ......... ................. ................. Mar-09................................ 22 5,885,594,284,780 267,527,012,945 0.06325 ......... ................. ................. Apr-09................................ 21 5,123,665,205,517 243,984,057,406 -0.09212 ......... ................. ................. May-09................................ 20 5,086,717,129,965 254,335,856,498 0.04155 ......... ................. ................. Jun-09................................ 22 5,271,742,782,609 239,624,671,937 -0.05958 ......... ................. ................. Jul-09................................ 22 4,659,599,245,583 211,799,965,708 -0.12343 ......... ................. ................. Aug-09................................ 21 4,582,102,295,783 218,195,347,418 0.02975 ......... ................. ................. Sep-09................................ 21 4,929,155,364,888 234,721,684,042 0.07301 ......... ................. ................. Oct-09................................ 22 5,410,025,301,030 245,910,240,956 0.04657 ......... ................. ................. Nov-09................................ 20 4,770,928,103,032 238,546,405,152 -0.03040 ......... ................. ................. Dec-09................................ 22 4,688,555,303,171 213,116,150,144 -0.11273 ......... ................. ................. Jan-10................................ 19 4,661,793,708,648 245,357,563,613 0.14088 ......... ................. ................. Feb-10................................ 19 4,969,848,578,023 261,570,977,791 0.06399 ......... ................. ................. Mar-10................................ 23 5,563,529,823,621 241,892,601,027 -0.07821 ......... ................. ................. Apr-10................................ 21 5,546,445,874,917 264,116,470,234 0.08790 ......... ................. ................. May-10................................ 20 7,260,430,376,294 363,021,518,815 0.31807 ......... ................. ................. Jun-10................................ 22 6,124,776,349,285 278,398,924,967 -0.26541 ......... ................. ................. Jul-10................................ 21 5,058,242,097,334 240,868,671,302 -0.14480 ......... ................. ................. Aug-10................................ 22 4,765,828,263,463 216,628,557,430 -0.10607 ......... ................. ................. Sep-10................................ 21 4,640,722,344,586 220,986,778,314 0.01992 ......... ................. ................. Oct-10................................ 21 5,138,411,712,272 244,686,272,013 0.10187 ......... ................. ................. Nov-10................................ 21 5,279,700,881,901 251,414,327,710 0.02713 ......... ................. ................. Dec-10................................ 22 4,998,574,681,208 227,207,940,055 -0.10124 ......... ................. ................. Jan-11................................ 20 5,043,391,121,345 252,169,556,067 0.10424 ......... ................. ................. Feb-11................................ 19 5,114,631,590,581 269,191,136,346 0.06532 ......... ................. ................. Mar-11................................ 23 6,499,355,385,307 282,580,668,926 0.04854 ......... ................. ................. Apr-11................................ 20 4,975,954,868,765 248,797,743,438 -0.12732 ......... ................. ................. May-11................................ 21 5,717,905,621,053 272,281,220,050 0.09020 ......... ................. ................. Jun-11................................ 22 5,820,079,494,414 264,549,067,928 -0.02881 ......... ................. ................. Jul-11................................ 20 5,189,681,899,635 259,484,094,982 -0.01933 ......... ................. ................. Aug-11................................ 23 8,720,566,877,109 379,155,081,613 0.37925 ......... ................. ................. Sep-11................................ 21 6,343,578,147,811 302,075,149,896 -0.22727 ......... ................. ................. Oct-11................................ 21 6,163,272,963,688 293,489,188,747 -0.02884 ......... ................. ................. Nov-11................................ 21 5,493,906,473,584 261,614,593,980 -0.11497 ......... ................. ................. Dec-11................................ 21 5,017,867,255,600 238,946,059,790 -0.09063 ......... ................. ................. Jan-12................................ 20 4,726,522,206,487 236,326,110,324 -0.01103 ......... ................. ................. Feb-12................................ 20 5,011,862,514,132 250,593,125,707 0.05862 ......... ................. ................. Mar-12................................ 22 5,638,847,967,025 256,311,271,228 0.02256 ......... ................. ................. Apr-12................................ 20 5,084,239,396,560 254,211,969,828 -0.00822 ......... ................. ................. May-12................................ 22 5,611,638,053,374 255,074,456,972 0.00339 ......... ................. ................. Jun-12................................ 21 5,121,896,896,362 243,899,852,208 -0.04480 ......... ................. ................. Jul-12................................ 21 4,567,519,314,374 217,500,919,732 -0.11455 ......... ................. ................. Aug-12................................ 23 4,621,597,884,730 200,939,038,467 -0.07920 ......... ................. ................. Sep-12................................ 19 4,598,499,962,682 242,026,313,825 0.18604 ......... ................. ................. Oct-12................................ 21 5,095,175,588,310 242,627,408,967 0.00248 ......... ................. ................. Nov-12................................ 21 4,547,882,974,292 216,565,855,919 -0.11363 ......... ................. ................. Dec-12................................ 20 4,744,922,754,360 237,246,137,718 0.09120 ......... ................. ................. Jan-13................................ 21 5,079,603,817,496 241,885,896,071 0.01937 ......... ................. ................. Feb-13................................ 19 4,800,663,527,089 252,666,501,426 0.04360 ......... ................. ................. Mar-13................................ 20 4,917,701,839,870 245,885,091,993 -0.02721 ......... ................. ................. Apr-13................................ 22 5,451,358,637,079 247,789,028,958 0.00771 ......... ................. ................. May-13................................ 22 5,681,788,831,869 258,263,128,721 0.04140 ......... ................. ................. Jun-13................................ 20 5,623,545,462,226 281,177,273,111 0.08501 ......... ................. ................. Jul-13................................ 22 5,083,861,509,754 231,084,614,080 -0.19620 ......... ................. ................. Aug-13................................ 22 4,925,611,193,095 223,891,417,868 -0.03162 ......... ................. ................. Sep-13................................ 20 4,959,197,626,713 247,959,881,336 0.10211 ......... ................. ................. Oct-13................................ 23 5,928,804,028,970 257,774,088,216 0.03882 ......... ................. ................. Nov-13................................ 20 5,182,024,612,049 259,101,230,602 0.00514 ......... ................. ................. Dec-13................................ 21 5,265,282,994,173 250,727,761,627 -0.03285 ......... ................. ................. Jan-14................................ 21 5,808,700,114,288 276,604,767,347 0.09822 ......... ................. ................. Feb-14................................ 19 6,018,926,931,054 316,785,627,950 0.13564 ......... ................. ................. Mar-14................................ 21 6,068,617,342,988 288,981,778,238 -0.09186 ......... ................. ................. Apr-14................................ 21 6,013,948,953,528 286,378,521,597 -0.00905 ......... ................. ................. May-14................................ 21 5,265,594,447,318 250,742,592,729 -0.13289 ......... ................. ................. [[Page 17581]] Jun-14................................ 21 5,159,506,989,669 245,690,809,032 -0.02035 ......... ................. ................. Jul-14................................ 22 5,364,099,567,460 243,822,707,612 -0.00763 ......... ................. ................. Aug-14................................ 21 5,075,332,147,677 241,682,483,223 -0.00882 ......... ................. ................. Sep-14................................ 21 5,507,943,363,243 262,283,017,297 0.08180 ......... ................. ................. Oct-14................................ 23 7,796,638,035,879 338,984,262,430 0.25653 ......... ................. ................. Nov-14................................ 19 5,340,847,027,697 281,097,211,984 -0.18725 ......... ................. ................. Dec-14................................ 22 6,559,110,068,128 298,141,366,733 0.05887 ......... ................. ................. Jan-15................................ 20 6,185,619,541,044 309,280,977,052 0.03668 ......... ................. ................. Feb-15................................ 19 5,723,523,235,641 301,238,065,034 -0.02635 ......... ................. ................. Mar-15................................ 22 6,395,046,297,249 290,683,922,602 -0.03566 ......... ................. ................. Apr-15................................ 21 5,625,548,298,004 267,883,252,286 -0.08169 ......... ................. ................. May-15................................ 20 5,521,351,972,386 276,067,598,619 0.03009 ......... ................. ................. Jun-15................................ 22 6,005,521,460,806 272,978,248,218 -0.01125 ......... ................. ................. Jul-15................................ 22 6,493,670,315,390 295,166,832,518 0.07815 ......... ................. ................. Aug-15................................ 21 6,963,901,249,270 331,614,345,203 0.11643 ......... ................. ................. Sep-15................................ 21 6,434,496,770,897 306,404,608,138 -0.07907 ......... ................. ................. Oct-15................................ 22 6,592,594,708,082 299,663,395,822 -0.02225 ......... ................. ................. Nov-15................................ 20 5,822,824,015,945 291,141,200,797 -0.02885 ......... ................. ................. Dec-15................................ 22 6,384,337,478,801 290,197,158,127 -0.00325 ......... ................. ................. Jan-16................................ 19 6,696,059,796,055 352,424,199,792 0.19428 ......... ................. ................. Feb-16................................ 20 6,659,878,908,747 332,993,945,437 -0.05671 ......... ................. ................. Mar-16................................ 22 6,161,943,754,542 280,088,352,479 -0.17302 ......... ................. ................. Apr-16................................ 21 5,541,076,988,322 263,860,808,968 -0.05968 ......... ................. ................. May-16................................ 21 5,693,520,415,112 271,120,019,767 0.02714 ......... ................. ................. Jun-16................................ 22 6,317,212,852,759 287,146,038,762 0.05743 ......... ................. ................. Jul-16................................ 20 5,331,797,261,269 266,589,863,063 -0.07428 ......... ................. ................. Aug-16................................ 23 5,635,976,607,786 245,042,461,208 -0.08428 ......... ................. ................. Sep-16................................ 21 5,942,072,286,976 282,955,823,189 0.14386 ......... ................. ................. Oct-16................................ 21 5,460,906,573,682 260,043,170,175 -0.08444 ......... ................. ................. Nov-16................................ 21 6,845,287,809,886 325,966,086,185 0.22595 ......... ................. ................. Dec-16................................ 21 6,208,579,880,985 295,646,660,999 -0.09763 ......... ................. ................. Jan-17................................ 20 5,598,200,907,603 279,910,045,380 -0.05470 ......... ................. ................. Feb-17................................ 19 5,443,426,609,533 286,496,137,344 0.02326 ......... ................. ................. Mar-17................................ 23 6,661,861,914,530 289,646,170,197 0.01094 ......... ................. ................. Apr-17................................ 19 5,116,714,033,499 269,300,738,605 -0.07283 ......... ................. ................. May-17................................ 22 6,305,822,460,672 286,628,293,667 0.06236 ......... ................. ................. Jun-17................................ 22 6,854,993,097,601 311,590,595,346 0.08350 ......... ................. ................. Jul-17................................ 20 5,394,333,070,522 269,716,653,526 -0.14432 ......... ................. ................. Aug-17................................ 23 6,206,204,906,864 269,834,995,951 0.00044 ......... ................. ................. Sep-17................................ 20 5,939,886,169,525 296,994,308,476 0.09590 ......... ................. ................. Oct-17................................ 22 6,134,529,538,894 278,842,251,768 -0.06307 ......... ................. ................. Nov-17................................ 21 6,289,748,560,897 299,511,836,233 0.07151 ......... ................. ................. Dec-17................................ 20 6,672,181,323,001 333,609,066,150 0.10782 ......... ................. ................. Jan-18................................ 21 7,672,172,336,996 365,341,539,857 0.09086 ......... ................. ................. Feb-18................................ 19 8,725,420,462,639 459,232,655,928 0.22872 ......... ................. ................. Mar-18................................ 21 ................... ................. ........... -0.0594 435,316,961,660 9,141,656,194,853 Apr-18................................ 21 ................... ................. ........... -0.0459 418,239,289,610 8,783,025,081,808 May-18................................ 22 ................... ................. ........... 0.0499 442,220,067,909 9,728,841,493,989 Jun-18................................ 21 ................... ................. ........... -0.0065 441,938,237,422 9,280,702,985,869 Jul-18................................ 21 ................... ................. ........... -0.0642 416,913,075,359 8,755,174,582,547 Aug-18................................ 23 ................... ................. ........... -0.0021 418,511,833,550 9,625,772,171,640 Sep-18................................ 19 ................... ................. ........... 0.0686 450,868,360,487 8,566,498,849,257 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BILLING CODE 8011-01-P [[Page 17582]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN20AP18.003 [FR Doc. 2018-08339 Filed 4-19-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011-01-C
![Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 77 / Friday, April 20, 2018 / Notices 17577
months of its current operating expenses Paper Comments SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
or the amount determined by the board COMMISSION
of directors to be sufficient to ensure a • Send paper comments in triplicate
recovery or orderly wind-down of to Secretary, Securities and Exchange
[Release No. 34–83057/April 17, 2018]
critical operations and services of the Commission, 100 F Street NE,
covered clearing agency, as Washington, DC 20549. Order Making Fiscal Year 2018 Annual
contemplated by the plans established All submissions should refer to SR– Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates
under Rule 17Ad–22(e)(3)(ii).32 ICEEU–2017–016 and SR–ICEEU–2017–
I. Background
IV. Request for Written Comments 017. These file numbers should be
The Commission requests that included on the subject line if email is Section 31 of the Securities Exchange
interested persons provide written used. To help the Commission process Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’) requires
submissions of their views, data, and and review your comments more each national securities exchange and
arguments with respect to the issues efficiently, please use only one method. national securities association to pay
raised by the proposed rule changes. In The Commission will post all comments transaction fees to the Commission.1
particular, the Commission invites the on the Commission’s internet website Specifically, Section 31(b) requires each
written views of interested persons (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml). national securities exchange to pay to
concerning whether the proposed rule Copies of the submissions, all the Commission fees based on the
changes are inconsistent with Section subsequent amendments, all written aggregate dollar amount of sales of
17A(b)(3)(F) of the Exchange Act 33 and statements with respect to the proposed certain securities (‘‘covered sales’’)
Rules 17Ad–22(e)(2),34 17Ad– rule changes that are filed with the transacted on the exchange.2 Section
22(e)(3)(ii),35 and 17Ad–22(e)(15)(i)– Commission, and all written 31(c) requires each national securities
(ii) 36 under the Exchange Act, or any communications relating to the association to pay to the Commission
other provision of the Exchange Act or proposed rule changes between the fees based on the aggregate dollar
rules and regulations thereunder. Commission and any person, other than amount of covered sales transacted by or
Although there do not appear to be those that may be withheld from the through any member of the association
any issues relevant to approval or public in accordance with the other than on an exchange.3
disapproval that would be facilitated by provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be Section 31 of the Exchange Act
an oral presentation of views, data, and available for website viewing and requires the Commission to annually
arguments, the Commission will printing in the Commission’s Public adjust the fee rates applicable under
consider, pursuant to Rule 19b–4, any Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, Sections 31(b) and (c) to a uniform
request for an opportunity to make an Washington, DC 20549, on official adjusted rate.4 Specifically, the
oral presentation.37 Commission must adjust the fee rates to
business days between the hours of
Interested persons are invited to a uniform adjusted rate that is
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the
submit written data, views, and reasonably likely to produce aggregate
arguments regarding whether the filings also will be available for
inspection and copying at the principal fee collections (including assessments
proposed rule changes should be on security futures transactions) equal
approved or disapproved on or before office of ICE Clear Europe and on ICE
Clear Europe’s website at https:// to the regular appropriation to the
May 11, 2018. Any person who wishes
www.theice.com/clear-europe. Commission for the applicable fiscal
to file a rebuttal to any other person’s
year.5
submission must file that rebuttal on or All comments received will be posted
before May 25, 2018. Comments may be without change. Persons submitting The Commission is required to
submitted by any of the following comments are cautioned that we do not publish notice of the new fee rates
methods: redact or edit personal identifying under Section 31 not later than 30 days
information from comment submissions. after the date on which an Act making
Electronic Comments a regular appropriation for the
You should submit only information
• Use the Commission’s internet that you wish to make available applicable fiscal year is enacted.6 On
comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ March 23, 2018, the President signed
publicly.
rules/sro.shtml); or into law the Consolidated
• Send an email to rule-comments@ All submissions should refer to File Appropriations Act, 2018, which
sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– Number SR–ICEEU–2017–016 and SR– includes total appropriations of
ICEEU–2017–016 and SR–ICEEU–2017– ICEEU–2017–017 and should be $1,896,507,052 to the SEC for fiscal year
017 on the subject line. submitted on or before May 11, 2018. If 2018.
comments are received, any rebuttal
32 17 CFR 240.17Ad–22(e)(3)(ii). comments should be submitted on or 1 15 U.S.C. 78ee.
33 15 U.S.C. 78q–1(b)(3)(F). before May 25, 2018. 2 15 U.S.C. 78ee(b).
34 17 CFR 240.17Ad–22(e)(2). 3 15 U.S.C. 78ee(c).
35 17 CFR 240.17Ad–22(e)(3)(ii).
For the Commission, by the Division of 4 In some circumstances, the SEC also must make
36 17 CFR 240.17Ad–22(e)(15)(i)–(ii). Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated a mid-year adjustment to the fee rates applicable
37 Section 19(b)(2) of the Exchange Act, as authority.38 under Sections 31(b) and (c).
5 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(1) (the Commission must
amended by the Securities Acts Amendments of Eduardo A. Aleman,
1975, Public Law 94–29, 89 Stat. 97 (1975), grants adjust the rates under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a
sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
the Commission flexibility to determine what type Assistant Secretary. ‘‘uniform adjusted rate that, when applied to the
of proceeding—either oral or notice and [FR Doc. 2018–08338 Filed 4–19–18; 8:45 am] baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of
opportunity for written comments—is appropriate sales for such fiscal year, is reasonably likely to
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P
for consideration of a particular proposal by a self- produce aggregate fee collections under [Section 31]
regulatory organization. See Securities Acts (including assessments collected under [Section
Amendments of 1975, Report of the Senate 31(d)]) that are equal to the regular appropriation
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to the Commission by Congress for such fiscal
to Accompany S. 249, S. Rep. No. 75, 94th Cong., year.’’).
1st Sess. 30 (1975). 38 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 6 15 U.S.C. 78ee(g).
VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:44 Apr 19, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20APN1.SGM 20APN1](https://thefederalregister.org/doc/83_FR_17654/page/1.svg)
Document Created: 2018-04-20 00:02:38
Document Modified: 2018-04-20 00:02:38
| Category | Regulatory Information | |
| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 17577 |
2024 Federal Register | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
USC | CFR | eCFR