Notice2024-12253
Self-Regulatory Organizations; MEMX LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Implement an Equity Rights Program
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June 5, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48203-48207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12253]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-100247; File No. SR-MEMX-2024-21]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; MEMX LLC; Notice of Filing and
Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Implement an
Equity Rights Program
May 30, 2024.
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 May 22, 2024, MEMX LLC (``MEMX'' or ``Exchange'') 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
The Exchange is filing with the Commission a proposed rule change
to implement an equity rights program (the ``Warrants Program'' or the
``Jump Ball Program'') related to fees charged for the trading of
options on the Exchange's options platform (``MEMX Options''). The
Exchange proposes to implement the changes to the Fee Schedule pursuant
to this proposal immediately.
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 Exchange proposes to implement the Warrants Program pursuant to
which warrants representing the right to acquire equity in the
Exchange's parent holding company upon vesting would be issued to
participants on MEMX Options who also participate in the Warrants
Program (``Participants''), in exchange for payment of the initial
prepayment fee (``Prepayment Fee'') and the achievement of certain
liquidity volume thresholds on the Exchange's options platform (``MEMX
Options'') over a 24-month period (the ``Term''). The Warrants Program
commenced on May 1, 2024 (the ``Effective Date'') and will end on May
1, 2026.\3\ The purpose of the Warrants Program is to promote the long-
term interests of MEMX by providing incentives designed to encourage
MEMX market participants to contribute to the growth and success of
MEMX Options via actively providing and taking liquidity on the MEMX
Options market. Participants in the Warrants Program will be able to
vest their warrants through the process described in the following
paragraphs and consequently will have the opportunity to share in the
benefits of MEMX's increased enterprise value.
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\3\ The Exchange initially filed the proposal to implement the
Warrants Program on April 25, 2024 (SR-MEMX-2024-15) (the ``Initial
Proposal''). On May 10, 2024, the Exchange withdrew the Initial
Proposal and replaced the proposal with SR-MEMX-2024-18 (the
``Second Proposal''). The Exchange recently withdrew the Second
Proposal and is replacing it with the current filing (SR-MEMX-2024-
21).
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Participants who executed a Purchase Agreement and who provide a
Prepayment Fee in the amount of $500,000 in advance of April 30, 2024
(the ``Commitment Deadline'') or such later date specified by the
Exchange were issued a ``ticket'' indicating that the Participant has
been accepted into the Warrants Program. Participants may purchase more
than one ticket. The total number of tickets available for purchase is
capped at 25 tickets. Upon making the Prepayment Fee corresponding to
the number of tickets purchased, a Participant will be able to apply
the Prepayment Fee to various fees for trading on MEMX Options,
including MEMX Options connectivity fees,\4\ MEMX Options market data
fees,\5\ MEMX Options membership fees,\6\ and MEMX Options transaction
fees.\7\ The Prepayment Fee does not expire and a Participant may apply
the Prepayment Fee to any of the above listed fees at any time. A
Participant will obtain 279,600 unvested warrants per ticket that will
vest on an equalized basis each calendar month during the Term (each
such calendar month during the Term of the Warrants Program, a
``Measurement Period'') if such Participant satisfies certain volume
commitments on MEMX Options, as described below.
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\4\ See the MEMX Connectivity Fee Schedule, available at <a href="https://info.memxtrading.com/connectivity-fees/">https://info.memxtrading.com/connectivity-fees/</a>.
\5\ See the MEMX Options Fee Schedule, available at <a href="https://info.memxtrading.com/us-options-trading-resources/us-options-fee-schedule/">https://info.memxtrading.com/us-options-trading-resources/us-options-fee-schedule/</a>.
\6\ See the MEMX Membership Fee Schedule, available at <a href="https://info.memxtrading.com/membership-fees/">https://info.memxtrading.com/membership-fees/</a>.
\7\ See the MEMX Options Fee Schedule, available at <a href="https://info.memxtrading.com/us-options-trading-resources/us-options-fee-schedule/">https://info.memxtrading.com/us-options-trading-resources/us-options-fee-schedule/</a>.
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Participants shall vest warrants on a pro-rata basis based upon
meeting or outperforming volume commitments during each Measurement
Period, as is discussed below. The volume commitments may be met by
trading activity in any listed equity option or exchange-traded fund
option on MEMX Options.\8\ Participants that trade options which are
not in the Penny Program \9\ (such options, ``Non-Penny'' options) will
receive double credit for such Non-Penny activity for purposes of
calculating the Participant's performance during the Measurement
Period. Each vested warrant entitles a Participant to purchase equity
ownership of one Nonvoting Common Unit \10\ of Holdco at a particular
strike price. Only vested warrants are eligible to be exercised, and
un-vested warrants are not exercisable. The total equity ownership of
Holdco Units, including any purchased through the exercise of vested
warrants, shall be subject to the ownership limitations of the Seventh
Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of MEMX
Holdings LLC, as amended (the ``Holdco LLC Agreement'').\11\
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\8\ The Exchange does not currently list or trade index options.
\9\ See Exchange Rule 21.5(d).
\10\ ``Nonvoting Common Units'' is defined in Section
3.2(g)(iii) of the Seventh Amended and Restated Limited Liability
Company Agreement of MEMX Holdings LLC.
\11\ See, e.g., Section 3.5(a)(ii) of the Holdco LLC Agreement,
which states that ``[n]o Exchange Member, either alone or together
with its Related Persons, may own, directly or indirectly, of record
or beneficially, Units constituting more than twenty percent (20%)
of any class of Units.''
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Volume Requirements
The target performance (``Target Performance'') for any Participant
is 25 basis points of Total Consolidated Volume \12\ (``TCV'') on MEMX
Options per Measurement Period, per ticket. Thus, if a Participant
achieves the Target Performance during any Measurement Period, the
Participant's full allotment of unvested warrants for that Measurement
Period will vest (i.e., 11,650 warrants per calendar month, per
ticket). The Target Performance for any Participant is on a per ticket
basis, thus, a Participant with two tickets has a Target Performance of
50 basis points of TCV per Measurement Period, a Participant with three
tickets has a Target Performance of 75 basis points of TCV per
Measurement Period, and so forth. During any Measurement Period,
Participants that do not meet the Target Performance but meet certain
minimum performance levels will have their warrants vest proportionally
to their performance, as illustrated in the following table. If a
Participant reaches a minimum percentage of the volume commitment set
out in the second column of the below table (equivalent to the number
of basis points set out in the third column of the below table), the
Participant will earn a reduced number of warrants on a proportional
basis applicable to such Measurement Period.
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\12\ Total Consolidated Volume is calculated as the volume
reported by all exchanges and trade reporting facilities to a
consolidated transaction reporting plan for the month for which the
fees apply.
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Performance Performance
Measurement period minimum minimum basis
percentage points
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Month 1 through Month 3................... 40 10
Month 4 through Month 6................... 50 12.5
Month 7 through Month 24.................. 60 15
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For example, if a Participant with one ticket achieves 10 basis
points of volume on MEMX Options in the month 1 Measurement Period, the
Participant will vest 40% of their warrants for such month (4,660
vested warrants). As another example, if a Participant with two tickets
achieves 13 basis points of volume on MEMX Options during the month 1
Measurement Period, the Participant will vest 26% of their warrants for
such month (i.e., 13 basis points of the 50 basis point Target
Performance based on two tickets) on a proportional basis (6,058 vested
warrants). However, if a Participant with any number of tickets
achieves 8 basis points of volume on MEMX Options in the month 1
Measurement Period, the Participant will vest no warrants for such
month.
If a Participant fails to meet the performance minimum for any
Measurement Period corresponding to month 1 through month 11, such
Participant will have the opportunity to vest their unvested warrants
if such Participant over-performs in a subsequent Measurement Period
that corresponds to month 2 through month 12. For example, if a
Participant with one ticket achieves 25 basis points of volume on MEMX
Options in month 1, 12.5 basis points in month 2, 37.5 basis points in
month 3, and 25 basis points in months 4 through 12, such Participant
can recover their un-vested 5,825 warrants from month 2 based on such
Participant's activity in month 3. Using the same example, if the
Participant achieves the same number of basis points noted in the above
example in this paragraph for months 1, 2, and 4 through 12 but only
achieves 31 basis points in month 3, such Participant can recover 2,796
of the un-vested 5,825 warrants from month 2, and would forfeit the
remaining 3,029 warrants. Partial basis points and partial warrants
achieved will be rounded according to standard rounding conventions
(i.e., rounded up if equal to or greater than 0.5, rounded down if
below 0.5). To again use the same example, if the Participant achieves
the same number of basis points noted in the first example of this
paragraph in months 1, 2, and 4 through 12 but only achieves 30.65
basis points in month 3, such Participant can recover 2,633 of the un-
vested 5,825 warrants from month 2 (rounding up from 2,632.9 un-vested
warrants), and would forfeit the remaining 3,192 warrants.
As another example, if a Participant with one ticket achieved 10
basis points of volume on MEMX Options in each of months 1, 2, and 3,
12.5 basis points in each of months 4, 5, and 6, 40 basis points in
each of months 7, 8, and 9, and 37.5 basis points in each of months 10,
11, and 12, such Participant can recover 6,990 un-vested warrants from
each of months 1, 2, and 3 and 5,825 un-vested warrants from each of
months 4, 5, and 6, for a total of 38,445 warrants recovered. If the
Participant in the example above had three tickets, the warrants would
vest such that such participant would earn 4,660 warrants in each of
months 1, 2, and 3, would earn 5,825 warrants in each of months 4, 5,
and 6, would earn 18,640 warrants in each of months 7, 8, and 9, and
would earn 17,475 warrants in each of months 10, 11, and 12, for a
total of 139,800 warrants vested. Such participant would recover none
of the 279,600 warrants forfeited for the year. Further, if a
Participant with one ticket achieves 25 basis points of volume on MEMX
Options in month 1, 12.5 basis points in each of months 2 through 4, 25
basis points in each of months 5 through 12, and 50 basis points in
month 13, the Participant's over-performance in month 13 cannot be
applied to vest units from under-performing activity in months 1-11.
If a Participant fails to meet the performance minimum for a
Measurement Period corresponding to month 13 through month 23, such
Participant will similarly have the opportunity to vest their unvested
warrants if such Participant over-performs in a subsequent Measurement
Period that corresponds to month 14 through month 24. For example, if a
Participant achieves 15 basis points of volume on MEMX Options in month
13, 25 basis points in month 14, 45 basis points in month 15, and 25
basis points in each of months 16 through 24, such Participant can
recover their un-vested 4,660 warrants from month 13 based on such
Participant's activity in month 15. As a further example, if a
Participant achieves the same number of basis points noted in the above
example in this paragraph for months 13, 14, and 16 through 24, but
achieves 27.14 basis points in month 15, such Participant can recover
997 of the un-vested 4,660 warrants from month 13 (rounded down from
997.24 un-vested warrants), and would forfeit the remaining 3,663
warrants.
Restrictions on Vesting
Each vested warrant shall be exercisable from the time of vesting
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until the seventh anniversary of the first day of the first calendar
month after the Effective Date. Vested warrants may be exercised when a
Participant pays the exercise price of the warrant. Warrants have not
been registered under the Securities Act of 1933. Each Participant will
have a standard piggyback registration right to include the Nonvoting
Common Units issuable upon exercise of the warrants should Holdco at a
later date file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act of
1933. The Nonvoting Common Units may not be transferred except pursuant
to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933
and such state securities laws, or an exemption from such registration
thereunder, and are subject to transfer restrictions set forth in the
Holdco LLC Agreement.\13\ In the event of a Qualified Public Offering
as defined in the Holdco LLC Agreement, the Nonvoting Common Units are
subject to the transfer restrictions in Section 10.3 of the Holdco LLC
Agreement, and MEMX shall have right of first offer on the transfer of
such Nonvoting Common Units. In the event that Holdco sells Nonvoting
Common Units to the public in an initial public offering pursuant to a
registration statement declared effective by the SEC, then Holdco will
give any Participant who holds warrants notice of the date when the
initial public offering will take place. In such case, the fair market
value of the Nonvoting Common Units will be as specified in the final
prospectus regarding the initial public offering as filed with the SEC.
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\13\ See, e.g, Sections 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 of the Holdco LLC
Agreement. The Exchange notes that such Sections refer to Common
Members throughout, rather than specifically referring to Nonvoting
Common Units. Section 1.1 of the Holdco LLC Agreement defines a
``Common Member'' as a member in Holdco ``holding Common Units in
its capacity as such, together with its Affiliates that hold Common
Units. . . .'' Accordingly, the term Common Member includes any
Holdco member, and does not distinguish between Holdco members
holding Voting Common Units and members holding Nonvoting Common
Units. As such, the transfer restrictions noted in the Holdco LLC
Agreement, which refer to Common Members, are applicable to
Nonvoting Common Units.
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All applicants will be subject to the same eligibility and
designation criteria, and all Participants will participate in the
Program on the same terms, conditions and restrictions. To be
designated as a Participant, an applicant must: (i) be a registered
broker-dealer pursuant to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (the ``Act''); (ii) qualify as an ``accredited investor'' as such
term is defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933; \14\ and
(iii) have executed all required documentation for participation in the
Warrants Program. Participants may be, but are not required to be,
current investors in Holdco, and the Exchange anticipates both current
and new investors to participate in the Warrants Program. Participants
must have executed the definitive documentation, satisfied the
eligibility criteria required of Warrants Program participants
enumerated above, and tendered the Prepayment Fee by the Commitment
Deadline.
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\14\ The purpose of this criterion relates to the ability of
Holdco to sell shares of common stock pursuant to an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act of 1933. The definition of
``accredited investor'' under Rule 501(a)(1) of the Securities Act
of 1933 includes any broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section
15 of the Act. As noted above, a Participant will be required to be
registered as a broker or dealer pursuant to Section 15 of the Act,
therefore all Participants will satisfy this criterion.
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As discussed above, the purpose of the Program is to encourage
Participants to direct greater trade volume to MEMX Options to enhance
trading volume on MEMX's options platform. Increased volume will
provide for greater liquidity and enhanced price discovery, which
benefits all market participants. Other exchanges have previously
engaged in the practice of incentivizing increased order flow in order
to attract liquidity providers through equity sharing arrangements.\15\
The Warrants Program similarly intends to attract order flow, which
will increase liquidity, thereby providing greater trading
opportunities and tighter spreads for other market participants and
causing a corresponding increase in order flow from these other market
participants. The Warrants Program will similarly reward the liquidity
providers that provide this additional volume with a potential
proprietary interest in MEMX.
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\15\ See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 62358 (June
22, 2010), 75 FR 37861 (June 30, 2010) (SR-NSX-2010-06); 64742 (June
24, 2011), 76 FR 38436 (June 30, 2011) (SR-NYSEAmex-2011-018); 69200
(March 21, 2013), 78 FR 18657 (March 27, 2013) (SR-CBOE-2013-31);
74095 (January 20, 2015). 80 FR 4011 (January 26, 2015) (SR-MIAX-
2015-02); 74114 (January 22, 2015), 80 FR 4611 (January 28, 2015)
(SR-BOX-2015-03); 74576 (March 25, 2015), 80 FR 17122 (March 31,
2015) (SR-BOX-2015-16); 80909 (June 12, 2017), 82 FR 27743 (June 16,
2017) (SR-MIAX-2017-28); 83012 (April 9, 2018), 83 FR 16163 (April
13, 2018) (SR-PEARL-2018-08); and 89730 (September 1, 2020), 85 FR
55530 (September 8, 2020) (SR-PEARL-2020-10).
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2. Statutory Basis
The Exchange believes that its proposed rule change is consistent
with Section 6(b) of the Act \16\ in general, and furthers the
objectives of Section 6(b)(5) of the Act \17\ in particular, in that it
is designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices,
to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster
cooperation and coordination with persons engaged in facilitating
transactions in securities, to remove impediments to and perfect the
mechanisms of a free and open market and a national market system and,
in general, to protect investors and the public interest. Additionally,
the Exchange believes the proposed rule change is consistent with the
Section 6(b)(5) of the Act \18\ requirement that the rules of an
exchange not be designed to permit unfair discrimination between
customers, issuers, brokers, or dealers. The Exchange also believes the
proposed rule change is consistent with Section 6(b)(4) of the Act,\19\
which requires that Exchange rules provide for the equitable allocation
of reasonable dues, fees, and other charges among its members and other
persons using its facilities.
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\16\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
\17\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
\18\ See id.
\19\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is equitable
and not unfairly discriminatory, because all Participants may elect to
participate (or elect not to participate) in the Warrants Program and
vest warrants on the same terms and conditions, assuming they satisfy
the same eligibility criteria as described above. The eligibility
criteria are objective; thus, all Participants have the ability to
satisfy the eligibility criteria to obtain a ``ticket'' for
participation. Any Participant that becomes a ticket holder and pays
the Prepayment Fee and otherwise satisfies the eligibility criteria has
the same opportunity for their warrants to vest through volume
contributions. The volume performance requirements are the same for all
Participants, all Participants have the same opportunity to earn vested
warrants on a proportional basis based upon meeting fixed volume
threshold amounts during the Measurement Periods that will apply to all
Participants. This ensures that all Participants will have the same
opportunity to vest warrants and to exercise those warrants to purchase
Non-Voting Common Units if they so choose. As noted above, Participants
may be, but are not required to be, current investors in Holdco, and
the Exchange anticipates both current and new investors to participate
in the Warrants Program.
The Exchange believes that the methodology used to calculate the
volume thresholds is fair, reasonable
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and not unfairly discriminatory because it is based on objective
criteria that is designed to increase trading volume on the Exchange's
recently launched Options platform. The Warrants Program is designed to
reward Participants for bringing their orders and quotes to the
Exchange to be executed on the Exchange. The Exchange believes it is
appropriate to exclude options on indices from the volume calculation
because the Exchange wishes to support volume in equity options and
ETFs on the MEMX Options platform and MEMX Options does not currently
trade index options. The Exchange also believes it is appropriate to
provide double credit for activity in Non-Penny options for purposes of
calculating the Participant's performance during the Measurement Period
to encourage and reward such activity because the Exchange's fees for
such products generate additional revenue for the Exchange as compared
to options that are in the Penny Program.
The Exchange believes the Warrants Program is equitable and
reasonable because an increase in volume and liquidity would benefit
all market participants by providing more trading opportunities and
tighter spreads, even to those market participants that do not
participate in the Warrants Program. Additionally, the Exchange
believes the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act because,
as described above, the Warrants Program is designed to bring greater
volume and liquidity to the Exchange, which will benefit all market
participants by providing tighter quoting and better prices, all of
which perfects the mechanism for a free and open market and national
market system.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition not necessary or appropriate in
furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The Exchange believes that the
proposed rule change will improve competition by providing market
participants the opportunity to execute orders and post liquidity on
the Exchange's options market.
The Exchange believes that the proposed change would increase both
intermarket and intramarket competition by incentivizing Participants
to direct their orders to the Exchange, which will enhance the quality
of quoting and increase the volume of contracts traded on the Exchange.
To the extent that there is an additional competitive burden on non-
Participants, the Exchange believes that this is appropriate because
the Program should incent Participants to direct additional order flow
to the Exchange and thus provide additional liquidity that enhances the
quality of its market and increases the volume of contracts traded on
the Exchange. To the extent that this purpose is achieved, the Exchange
believes that all of the Exchange's market participants would benefit
from the improved market liquidity. Enhanced market quality and
increased transaction volume that results from the anticipated increase
in order flow directed to the Exchange will benefit all market
participants and improve competition on the Exchange.
Given the robust competition for volume among options markets, many
of which offer the same products, implementing a program to attract
order flow like the one proposed in this filing is consistent with the
above-mentioned goals of the Act. This is especially true for the
smaller options markets, such as MEMX, which is competing for volume
with much larger exchanges that dominate the options trading industry.
As a new exchange, MEMX has a nominal percentage of the average daily
trading volume in options, so it is unlikely that the Warrants Program
could cause any competitive harm to the options market or to market
participants. Rather, the Warrants Program is a modest attempt to
attract order volume away from larger competitors by adopting an
innovative pricing strategy. The Exchange notes that if the Warrants
Program results in a modest percentage increase in the average daily
trading volume on MEMX, while such percentage would represent a large
volume increase for MEMX, it would represent a minimal reduction in
volume of its larger competitors in the industry. The Exchange believes
that the Program will help further competition, because market
participants will have yet another additional option in determining
where to execute orders and post liquidity if they factor the benefits
of MEMX equity participation into the determination.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's 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 has become effective pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act \20\ and Rule 19b-4(f)(2) \21\ thereunder.
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\20\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii).
\21\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(2).
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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 shall institute proceedings 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
<bullet> Use the Commission's internet comment form (<a href="https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml">https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml</a>); or
<bullet> Send an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2e5c5b424b034d4143434b405a5d6e5d4b4d00494158"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5d2f283138703e3230303833292e1d2e383e733a322b">[email protected]</span></a>. Please include
file number SR-MEMX-2024-21 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
<bullet> 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-MEMX-2024-21. 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 (<a href="https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml">https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml</a>). 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
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printing in the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549, on official business days between the hours of 10
a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of the filing also will be available for
inspection and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. Do not
include personal identifiable information in submissions; you should
submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. We
may redact in part or withhold entirely from publication submitted
material that is obscene or subject to copyright protection. All
submissions should refer to file number SR-MEMX-2024-21 and should be
submitted on or before June 26, 2024.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\22\
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\22\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-12253 Filed 6-4-24; 8:45 am]
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