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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices
that may be under-used or superfluous, or that do not contribute additional value to a Members participation on the Exchange.
B. Self-Regulatory Organizations Statement on Burden on Competition The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will impose any burden on intramarket competition that is not necessary in furtherance of the purposes of the Act because the proposed MPID Fee will apply equally to all Members that choose to employ additional MPIDs and equally to each additional MPID. As stated, additional MPIDs are optional and Members may choose to utilize additional MPIDs, or not, based on their view of the additional benefits and added value provided by utilizing the single MPID
necessary to participate on the Exchange. The Exchange believes the proposed fee will be assessed proportionately to the potential value or benefit received by Members with a greater number of MPIDs and notes that a Member may request at any time that the Exchange terminate any MPID, including those that may be under-used or superfluous, or that do not contribute additional value to a Members participation on the Exchange.
Next, the Exchange believes the proposed rule change does not impose any burden on intermarket competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.
As previously discussed, the Exchange operates in a highly competitive market, including competition for exchange memberships. Members have numerous alternative venues that they may participate on, including 15 other equities exchanges, as well as offexchange venues, including over 50
alternative trading systems.13 The Exchange represents a small percentage of the overall market. Based on publicly available information, no single equities exchange has more than 16% market share.14 Indeed, participants can readily choose to submit their order flow to other exchange and off-exchange venues if they deem fee levels at those other venues to be more favorable.15 In addition to this the Exchange notes that at least one other exchange currently has MPID fees in place,16 which have been previously filed with the Commission. Moreover, the Commission has repeatedly expressed its preference 13 See U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Alternative Trading Systems ATS List December 4, 2020, available at https
www.sec.gov/foia/docs/atslist.htm.
14 See supra note 4.
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for competition over regulatory intervention in determining prices, products, and services in the securities markets. Specifically, in Regulation NMS, the Commission highlighted the importance of market forces in determining prices and SRO revenues and, also, recognized that current regulation of the market system has been remarkably successful in promoting market competition in its broader forms that are most important to investors and listed companies. The fact that this market is competitive has also long been recognized by the courts.
In NetCoalition v. Securities and Exchange Commission, the D.C. Circuit stated as follows: no one disputes that competition for order flow is fierce. . . . As the SEC explained, in the U.S. national market system, buyers and sellers of securities, and the brokerdealers that act as their order-routing agents, have a wide range of choices of where to route orders for execution;
and no exchange can afford to take its market share percentages for granted because no exchange possesses a monopoly, regulatory or otherwise, in the execution of order flow from broker dealers. . . .. Accordingly, the Exchange does not believe its proposed fee change imposes any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.
C. Self-Regulatory Organizations Statement on Comments on the Proposed Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others The Exchange neither solicited nor received comments on the proposed rule change.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for Commission Action The foregoing rule change is effective upon filing pursuant to Section 19b3A of the Act 17 and subparagraph f2 of Rule 19b4
thereunder,18 because it establishes a due, fee, or other charge imposed by the Exchange.
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 17 15
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under Section 19b2B of the Act 19 to determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or disapproved.
IV. Solicitation of Comments Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Electronic Comments Use the Commissions internet comment form http www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml; or Send an email to rule-comments@
sec.gov. Please include File No. SR
CboeEDGX2021007 on the subject line.
Paper Comments Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 205491090.
All submissions should refer to File No.
SRCboeEDGX2021007. 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 Commissions 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 Commissions 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 No.
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