[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43246-43250]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17844]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-86678; File No. SR-CboeEDGX-2019-048]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.; Notice
of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To
Introduce a Small Retail Broker Distribution Program

August 14, 2019.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that
on August 1, 2019, Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (``Exchange'' or ``EDGX'')
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission'') the
proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, and III below, which
Items have been prepared by the Exchange. The Commission is publishing
this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from
interested persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change

    Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (``EDGX'' or the ``Exchange'') is filing
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ``Commission'') a
proposed rule change to introduce a Small Retail Broker Distribution
Program. The text of the proposed changes to the fee schedule are
enclosed [sic] as Exhibit 5.
    The text of the proposed rule change is also available on the
Exchange's website (http://markets.cboe.com/us/options/regulation/rule_filings/edgx/), at the Exchange's Office of the Secretary, and at
the Commission's Public Reference Room.

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

    In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and
discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The
text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in
Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared summaries, set forth in
sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such
statements.

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

1. Purpose
    The purpose of the proposed rule change is to introduce a pricing
program that would allow small retail brokers that purchase top of book
market data from the Exchange to benefit from discounted fees for
access to such market data. The Small Retail Broker Distribution
Program (the ``Program'') would reduce the distribution and
consolidation fees paid by small broker-dealers that operate a retail
business. In turn, the Program may increase retail investor access to
real-time U.S. equity quote and trade information, and allow the
Exchange to better compete for this business with competitors that
offer similar optional products.
Current Fees
    Today, the Exchange offers two top of book data feeds that provide
real-time U.S. equity quote and trade information to investors. First,
the Exchange offers the EDGX Top Feed, which is an uncompressed data
feed that offers top of book quotations and execution information based
on equity orders entered into the System.\3\ The fee for external
distribution of EDGX Top data is $1,500 per month, and external
distributors are also liable for a fee of $4 per month for each
Professional User, and $0.10 per month for each Non-Professional User.
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    \3\ See BZX Rule 11.22(d).
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    Second, the Exchange offers the Cboe One Summary Feed, which offers
similar information based on equity orders submitted to the Exchange
and its affiliated equities exchanges--i.e., Cboe EDGA Exchange, Inc.,
Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc., and Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc. Specifically, the
Cboe One Summary Feed is a data feed that contains the aggregate best
bid and offer of all displayed orders for securities traded on the
Exchange and its affiliated exchanges. The Cboe One Summary Feed also
contains the individual last sale information for the Exchange and each
of its affiliated exchanges, and consolidated volume for all listed
equity securities. The fee for external distribution of the Cboe One
Summary Feed is $5,000 per month, and external distributors are also
liable for a Data Consolidation Fee of $1,000 per month, and User fees
equal to $10 per month for each Professional User, and $0.25 per month
for each Non-Professional User.\4\
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    \4\ The Exchange also offers an Enterprise license for the EDGX
Top and Cboe One Summary Feeds. An Enterprise license permits
distribution to an unlimited number of Professional and Non-
Professional Users, keeping costs down for firms that provide access
to a large number of subscribers. An Enterprise license is $15,000
per month for the EDGX Top Feed, and $50,000 per month for the Cboe
One Summary Feed.
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Small Retail Broker Eligibility Requirements
    The Exchange proposes to introduce a Program that would reduce
costs for small retail brokers that provide top of book data to their
clients. In order to be approved for the Small Retail Broker
Distribution Program, Distributors would have to provide either the
EDGX Top Feed or Cboe One Summary Feed (``EDGX Equities Exchange
Data'') to a limited number of clients with which the firm has
established a brokerage relationship, and would have to provide such
data primarily to Non-Professional Data Users. Specifically,
distributors would have to attest that they meet the following
criteria: (1) Distributor is a broker-dealer distributing EDGX Equities
Exchange Data to Non-Professional Data Users with whom the broker-
dealer has a brokerage relationship; (2) More than 50% of the
Distributor's total Data User population must consist of Non-
Professional Data Users, inclusive of those not receiving EDGX Equities
Exchange Data; and (3) Distributor distributes EDGX Equities Exchange
Data to no more than 5,000 Non-Professional Data Users.\5\
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    \5\ Distributors would have to meet these requirements for
whichever product they would like to distribute pursuant to the
Program. For example, a distributor that distributes Cboe One
Summary Feed data pursuant to the Program, would be limited to
distributing the Cboe One Summary Feed to no more than 5,000 Non-
Professional Data Users.
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    These proposed requirements for participating in the Program are
designed to ensure that the benefits provided by the Program inure to
the benefit of small retail brokers that provide EDGX Equities Exchange
Data to a limited number of subscribers. As explained later in this
filing, distributors that provide EDGX Exchange Data to a larger number
of subscribers can benefit from the current pricing structure through
scale, due to subscriber fees that are significantly lower than those
charged by the Exchange's competitors, and an

Enterprise license that caps the total fees to be paid by firms that
distribute market data to a sizeable customer base. The Exchange
believes that offering similarly attractive pricing to small retail
brokers, including regional firms both inside and outside of the U.S.
that may not have the same established client base as the larger retail
brokers, would make the Exchange's data a more competitive alternative
for those firms, and would help ensure that such information is widely
available to a larger number of retail investors globally. The Program
would also be available to retail brokers more generally, regardless of
size, that wish to trial the Exchange's top of book products with a
limited number of subscribers before potentially expanding distribution
to additional clients, potentially further increasing the accessibility
of the Exchange's market data to retail investors. The Program would be
exclusive to the Exchange's top of book offerings as retail investors
typically do not need or use depth of book data to facilitate their
equity investments, and their brokers typically do purchase such market
data on their behalf.
Discounted Fees
    Distributors that participate in the Program would be liable for
lower distribution fees for access to the EDGX Top Feed, and lower
distribution and consolidation fees for access to the Cboe One Summary
Data Feed.\6\ First, the distribution fee charged for EDGX Top would be
lowered by 50% from the current $1,500 per month to $750 per month for
distributors that meet the requirements of the Program. Second, the
distribution fee charged to these distributors for the Cboe One Summary
Feed would be lowered by 30% from the current $5,000 per month to
$3,500 per month. Finally, the Data Consolidation Fee charged for the
Cboe One Summary Feed would be lowered by 65% from the current $1,000
per month to $350 per month. User fees for any Professional or Non-
Professional Users that access EDGX Top or Cboe One Summary Feed data
from a distributor that participates in the Program would remain at
their current levels as the current subscriber charges are already
among the most competitive in the industry.\7\
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    \6\ New external distributors of the EDGX Top Feed or Cboe One
Summary Feed are not currently charged external distributor fees for
their first month of service. This would continue to be the case for
external distributors that participate in the Program.
    \7\ By comparison, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (``Nasdaq'')
charges a subscriber fee for Nasdaq Basic that adds up to $26 per
month for Professional Subscribers and $1 per month for Non-
Professional Subscribers (Tapes A, B, and C). See Nasdaq Equity
Rules, Equity 7, Pricing Schedule, Section 147(b)(1).
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    The Exchange believes that these fees, which represent a
significant cost savings for small retail brokers, would help ensure
that retail investors continue to have fair and efficient access to
U.S. equity market data. While retail investors normally pay a fixed
commission when buying or selling equities, and do not typically pay
separate fees for market data, the Exchange believes that the proposed
reduction in fees would make the Exchange's data more competitive with
other available alternatives, and may encourage retail brokers to make
such data more readily available to their clients. In sum, the Exchange
believes that the proposed fee reductions may facilitate more cost
effective access to top of book data that is purchased on a voluntary
basis by retail brokers and provided to their retail investor clients.
Market Background
    The market for top of book data is highly competitive as national
securities exchanges compete both with each other and with the
securities information processors (``SIPs'') to provide efficient,
reliable, and low cost data to a wide range of investors and market
participants. In fact, Regulation NMS requires all U.S. equities
exchanges to provide their best bids and offers, and executed
transactions, to the two registered SIPs for dissemination to the
public. Top of book data is therefore widely available to investors
today at a relatively modest cost. National securities exchanges may
also disseminate their own top of book data, but no rule or regulation
of the Commission requires market participants to purchase top of book
data from an exchange.\8\ The EDGX Top Feed and Cboe One Summary Feed
therefore compete with the SIP and with similar products offered by
other national securities exchanges that offer their own competing top
of book products. In fact, there are ten competing top of book products
offered by other national securities exchanges today, not counting
products offered by the Exchange's affiliates.\9\ The purpose of the
proposed rule change is to further increase the competitiveness of the
Exchange's top of book market data products compared to competitor
offerings that may currently be cheaper for firms with a limited
subscriber base that do not yet have the scale to take advantage of the
lower subscriber fees offered by the Exchange. In turn, the Exchange
believes that this change may benefit market participants and investors
by spurring additional competition and increasing the accessibility of
the Exchange's top of book data.
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    \8\ By contrast, Rule 603(c) of Regulation NMS (the ``Vendor
Display Rule'') effectively requires that SIP data or some other
consolidated display be utilized in any context in which a trading
or order-routing decision can be implemented.
    \9\ Competing top of book products include, Nasdaq Basic, BX
Basic, PSX Basic, NYSE BQT, NYSE BBO/Trades, NYSE Arca BBO/Trades,
NYSE American BBO/Trades, NYSE Chicago BBO/Trades, and IEX TOPS.
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2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent
with the objectives of Section 6 of the Act,\10\ in general, and
furthers the objectives of Section 6(b)(4),\11\ in particular, as it is
designed to provide for the equitable allocation of reasonable dues,
fees and other charges among its members and other recipients of
Exchange data.
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    \10\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \11\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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    The Exchange also believes that the proposed rule change is
consistent with Section 11(A) of the Act.\12\ Specifically, the
proposed rule change supports (i) fair competition among brokers and
dealers, among exchange markets, and between exchange markets and
markets other than exchange markets, and (ii) the availability to
brokers, dealers, and investors of information with respect to
quotations for and transactions in securities. In addition, the
proposed rule change is consistent with Rule 603 of Regulation NMS,\13\
which provides that any national securities exchange that distributes
information with respect to quotations for or transactions in an NMS
stock do so on terms that are not unreasonably discriminatory.
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    \12\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
    \13\ See 17 CFR 242.603.
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    In adopting Regulation NMS, the Commission granted SROs and broker-
dealers increased authority and flexibility to offer new and unique
market data to the public. It was believed that this authority would
expand the amount of data available to consumers, and also spur
innovation and competition for the provision of market data. The
Exchange believes that the proposed fee change would further broaden
the availability of U.S. equity market data to investors, and in
particular retail investors, consistent with the principles of
Regulation NMS.
    The Exchange operates in a highly competitive environment. Indeed,
there are thirteen registered national securities exchanges that trade
U.S.

equities and offer associated top of book market data products to their
customers. The national securities exchanges also compete with the SIPs
for market data customers. The Commission has repeatedly expressed its
preference for competition over regulatory intervention in determining
prices, products, and services in the securities markets. Specifically,
in Regulation NMS, the Commission highlighted the importance of market
forces in determining prices and SRO revenues and, also, recognized
that current regulation of the market system ``has been remarkably
successful in promoting market competition in its broader forms that
are most important to investors and listed companies.'' \14\ The
proposed fee change is a result of the competitive environment, as the
Exchange seeks to amend its fees to attract additional subscribers for
its proprietary top of book data offerings.
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    \14\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 (June 9,
2005), 70 FR 37496, 37499 (June 29, 2005) (``Regulation NMS Adopting
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    The proposed fee change would reduce fees charged to small retail
brokers that provide access to two top of book data products: The EDGX
Top Feed and the Cboe One Summary Feed. The EDGX Top Feed provides top
of book quotations and transactions executed on the Exchange, and
provides a valuable window into the market for securities traded on a
market that accounts for about 5% of U.S. equity market volume
today.\15\ The Cboe One Summary Feed is a competitively-priced
alternative to top of book data disseminated by SIPs, or similar data
disseminated by other national securities exchanges.\16\ It provides
subscribers with consolidated top of book quotes and trades from four
Cboe U.S. equities markets, which together account for about 17% of
consolidated U.S. equities trading volume.\17\ Together, these products
are purchased by a wide variety of market participants and vendors,
including data platforms, websites, fintech firms, buy-side investors,
retail brokers, regional banks, and securities firms inside and outside
of the U.S. that desire low cost, high quality, real-time U.S. equity
market data. By providing lower cost access to U.S. equity market data,
the EDGX Top and Cboe One Summary Feeds benefit a wide range of
investors that participate in the national market system. Reducing fees
for broker-dealers that represent retail investors and that may have
more limited resources than some of their larger competitors would
further increase access to such data and facilitate a competitive
market for U.S. equity securities, consistent with the goals of the
Act.
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    \15\ See https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/.
    \16\ See e.g., supra note 7 (discussing Nasdaq Basic).
    \17\ Id.
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    While the Exchange is not required to make any data, including top
of book data, available through its proprietary market data platform,
the Exchange believes that making such data available increases
investor choice, and contributes to a fair and competitive market.
Specifically, making such data publicly available through proprietary
data feeds allows investors to choose alternative, potentially less
costly, market data based on their business needs. While some market
participants that desire a consolidated display choose the SIP for
their top of book data needs, and in some cases are effectively
required to do so under the Vendor Display Rule, others may prefer to
purchase data directly from one or more national securities exchanges.
For example, a buy-side investor may choose to purchase the Cboe One
Summary Feed, or a similar product from another exchange, in order to
perform investment analysis. The Cboe One Summary Feed represents
quotes from four highly liquid equities markets. As a result, the Cboe
One Summary Feed is within 1% of the national best bid and offer
approximately 98% of the time,\18\ and therefore serves as a valuable
reference for investors that do not require a consolidated display that
contains quotations for all U.S. equities exchanges. Making alternative
products available to market participants ultimately ensures increased
competition in the marketplace, and constrains the ability of exchanges
to charge supracompetitive fees. In the event that a market participant
views one exchanges top of book data fees as more or less attractive
than the competition they can and frequently do switch between
competing products. In fact, the competiveness of the market for such
top of book data products is one of the primary factors animating this
proposed rule change, which is designed to allow the Exchange to
further compete for this business.
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    \18\ See https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_data_services/cboe_one/.
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    The Exchange believes that the proposed fees are reasonable as they
represent a significant cost reduction for smaller, primarily regional,
retail brokers that provide top of book data from EDGX and its
affiliated equities exchanges to their retail investor clients. The
market for top of book data is intensely competitive due to the
availability of substitutable products that can be purchased either
from other national securities exchanges, or from registered SIPs that
make such top of book data publicly available to investors at a modest
cost. The proposed fee reduction is being made to make the Exchange's
fees more competitive with such offerings for this segment of market
participants, thereby increasing the availability of the Exchange's
data products, and expanding the options available to firms making data
purchasing decisions based on their business needs. The Exchange
believes that this is consistent with the principles enshrined in
Regulation NMS to ``promote the wide availability of market data and to
allocate revenues to SROs that produce the most useful data for
investors.'' \19\
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    \19\ See Regulation NMS Adopting Release, supra note 14, at
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    Today, the Exchange's top of book market data products are among
the most competitively priced in the industry due to modest subscriber
fees, and a lower Enterprise cap, both of which keep fees at a
relatively modest level for larger firms that provide market data to a
sizeable number of Professional or Non-Professional Users. Distributors
with a smaller user base, however, may choose to use competitor
products that have a lower distribution fee and higher subscriber fees.
The Program would help the Exchange compete for this segment of the
market, and may broaden the reach of the Exchange's data products by
providing an additional low cost alternative to competitor products for
small retail brokers. While such firms may already utilize similar
market data products from other sources, the Exchange believes that
offering its own data to small retail brokers at lower distribution and
data consolidation costs has the potential to increase choice for
market participants, and ultimately increase the data available to
retail investors when coupled with the Exchange's lower subscriber
fees.
    The Exchange also believes that the proposed fees are equitable and
not unfairly discriminatory as the proposed fee structure is designed
to decrease the price and increase the availability of U.S. equities
market data to retail investors. The Program is designed to reduce the
cost of top of book market data for broker-dealers that provide such
data to Non-Professional Data User clients that make up the majority of
the distributor's total subscriber population. As such, the Program
would be broadly available to a wide range of retail brokers that
either purchase the EDGX

Top Feed or Cboe One Summary Feed today, or that may choose to switch
from competing products due to the potential cost savings. Dozens of
distributors that currently purchase top of book data from one of the
four Cboe U.S. equities exchanges, and many more prospective customers,
could benefit from the Program. Each of these current or prospective
retail broker customers would receive the same benefits in terms of
reduced distribution and consolidation fees based on the product that
they purchase from the Exchange.
    The Commission has long stressed the need to ensure that the
equities markets are structured in a way that meets the needs of
ordinary investors. For example, the Commission's strategic plan for
fiscal years 2018-2022 touts ``focus on the long-term interests of our
Main Street investors'' as the Commission's number one strategic
goal.\20\ The Program would be consistent with the Commission's stated
goal of improving the retail investor experience in the public markets.
Furthermore, national securities exchanges commonly charge reduced fees
and offer market structure benefits to retail investors, and the
Commission has consistently held that such incentives are consistent
with the Act. The Exchange believes that the Program is consistent with
longstanding precedent indicating that it is consistent with the Act to
provide reasonable incentives to retail investors that rely on the
public markets for their investment needs.
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    \20\ See U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategic
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    In addition, while the Program would be effectively limited to
smaller firms that distribute data to no more than 5,000 Non-
Professional Data Users, the Exchange does not believe that this
limitation makes the fees inequitable, unfairly discriminatory, or
otherwise contrary to the purposes of the Act. Large broker-dealers
and/or vendors that distribute the Exchange's data products to a
sizeable number of investors benefit from the current fee structure,
which includes lower subscriber fees and Enterprise licenses. Due to
lower subscriber fees, distributors that provide EDGX Equities Exchange
Data to more than 5,000 Non-Professional Data Users already enjoy cost
savings compared to competitor products. The Program would therefore
ensure that small retail brokers that distribute top of book data to
their retail investor customers could also benefit from reduced
pricing, and would aid in increasing the competitiveness of the
Exchange's data products for this key segment of the market.

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

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change would
result in any burden on competition that is not necessary or
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The Exchange
operates in a highly competitive environment, and its ability to price
these data products is constrained by: (i) Competition among exchanges
that offer similar data products to their customers; and (ii) the
existence of inexpensive real-time consolidated data disseminated by
the SIPs. Top of book data is disseminated by both the SIPs and the
thirteen equities exchanges. There are therefore a number of
alternative products available to market participants and investors. In
this competitive environment potential subscribers are free to choose
which competing product to purchase to satisfy their need for market
information. Often, the choice comes down to price, as broker-dealers
or vendors look to purchase the cheapest top of book data product, or
quality, as market participants seek to purchase data that represents
significant market liquidity. In order to better compete for this
segment of the market, the Exchange is proposing to reduce the cost of
top of book data provided by small retail brokers to their retail
investor clients. The Exchange believes that this would facilitate
greater access to such data, ultimately benefiting the retail investors
that are provided access to such market data.
    The Exchange does not believe that this price reduction would cause
any unnecessary or inappropriate burden on intermarket competition as
other exchanges and data vendors are free to lower their prices to
better compete with the Exchange's offering. Indeed, as explained in
the basis section of this proposed rule change, the Exchange's decision
to lower its distribution and consolidation fees for small retail
brokers is itself a competitive response to different fee structures
available on competing markets. The Exchange therefore believes that
the proposed rule change is pro-competitive as it seeks to offer
pricing incentives to customers to better position the Exchange as it
competes to attract additional market data subscribers. The Exchange
also believes that the proposed reduction in fees for small retail
brokers would not cause any unnecessary or inappropriate burden on
intramarket competition. Although the proposed fee discount would be
largely limited to small retail broker subscribers, larger broker-
dealers and vendors can already purchase top of book data from the
Exchange at prices that represent a significant cost savings when
compared to competitor products that combine higher subscriber fees
with lower fees for distribution. In light of the benefits already
provided to this group of subscribers, the Exchange believes that
additional discounts to small retail brokers would increase rather than
decrease competition among broker-dealers that participate on the
Exchange. Furthermore, as discussed earlier in this proposed rule
change, the Exchange believes that offering pricing benefits to brokers
that represent retail investors facilitates the Commission's mission of
protecting ordinary investors, and is therefore consistent with the
Act.

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

    No written comments were either solicited or received.

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

    The foregoing rule change has become effective pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A) of the Act \21\ and paragraph (f) of Rule 19b-4 \22\
thereunder. At any time within 60 days of the filing of the 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 will institute proceedings to
determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or
disapproved.
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    \21\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \22\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f).
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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_ADDRESS>Please include
File Number SR-

CboeEDGX-2019-048 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

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

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2019-048. 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-CboeEDGX-2019-048 and should be
submitted on or before September 10, 2019.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\23\
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    \23\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-17844 Filed 8-19-19; 8:45 am]
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