Notice2025-03508
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq PHLX LLC; Notice of Designation of a Longer Period for Commission Action on a Proposed Rule Change To Permit FLEX Trading in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF
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Published
March 5, 2025
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11334-11335]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03508]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-102497; File No. SR-Phlx-2024-72]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq PHLX LLC; Notice of
Designation of a Longer Period for Commission Action on a Proposed Rule
Change To Permit FLEX Trading in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF
February 27, 2025.
On December 26, 2024, Nasdaq PHLX LLC (``ISE'') filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to
Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act'') \1\
and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a proposed rule change to amend Options
8, Section 34, FLEX Trading, to permit FLEX Trading in the iShares
Bitcoin Trust ETF. The proposed rule change was published for comment
in the Federal Register on January 14, 2025.\3\ The Commission received
a comment letter regarding the proposed rule change.\4\
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
\3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 102132 (Jan. 7,
2025), 90 FR 3266.
\4\ Comment letters on the proposed rule change are available at
<a href="https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-phlx-2024-72/srphlx202472.htm">https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-phlx-2024-72/srphlx202472.htm</a>.
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Section 19(b)(2) of the Act \5\ provides that within 45 days of the
publication of notice of the filing of a proposed rule change, or
within such longer period up to 90 days as the Commission may designate
if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its
reasons for so finding, or as to which the self-regulatory organization
consents, the Commission shall either approve the proposed rule change,
disapprove the proposed rule change, or institute proceedings to
determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved. The
45th day after publication of the notice for this proposed rule change
is February 28, 2025. The Commission is extending this 45-day time
period.
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\5\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
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The Commission finds it appropriate to designate a longer period
within which to take action on the proposed rule change so that it has
sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change. Accordingly, the
Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,\6\ designates
April 14, 2025 as the date by which the Commission shall either approve
or disapprove, or institute proceedings to determine whether to
disapprove, the proposed rule change (File No. SR-Phlx-2024-72).
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\6\ Id.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\7\
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\7\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(31).
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Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-03508 Filed 3-4-25; 8:45 am]
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