Notice2025-09855

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Investors Exchange LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend IEX's Fee Schedule To Establish a Supplemental Market Quality Program

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 104 (Monday, June 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23397-23401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09855]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-103131; File No. SR-IEX-2025-07]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; Investors Exchange LLC; Notice of 
Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend 
IEX's Fee Schedule To Establish a Supplemental Market Quality Program

May 27, 2025.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) \1\ of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934 (the ``Act''),\2\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\3\ notice is hereby 
given that on May 16, 2025, the Investors Exchange LLC (``IEX'' or the 
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 
``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I and II 
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\ 15 U.S.C. 78a.
    \3\ 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

    Pursuant to the provisions of Section 19(b)(1) under the Act,\4\ 
and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\5\ the Exchange is filing with the 
Commission a proposed rule change to amend the Exchange's fee schedule 
applicable to Members \6\ (the ``Fee Schedule'' \7\) pursuant to IEX 
Rule 15.110(a) and (c) to establish an Supplemental Market Quality 
Program, which is designed to improve displayed

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liquidity and promote order flow to the Exchange by offering a 
financial incentive for Members to enter displayed orders or quotes 
priced at the NBBO \8\ on the Exchange in certain securities designated 
by the Exchange. Changes to the Fee Schedule pursuant to this proposal 
are effective upon filing.\9\
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    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \5\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \6\ See IEX Rule 1.160(s).
    \7\ See Investors Exchange Fee Schedule, available at <a href="https://www.iexexchange.io/resources/trading/fee-schedule">https://www.iexexchange.io/resources/trading/fee-schedule</a>.
    \8\ See IEX Rule 1.160(u).
    \9\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii).
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    The text of the proposed rule change is available at the Exchange's 
website at <a href="https://www.iexexchange.io/resources/regulation/rule-filings">https://www.iexexchange.io/resources/regulation/rule-filings</a>, at the principal office of the Exchange, 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 self-regulatory organization 
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 self-regulatory organization 
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 the 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    The Exchange proposes to modify its Fee Schedule, pursuant to IEX 
Rule 15.110(a) and (c), to establish a Supplemental Market Quality 
Program (``SMQ'' or the ``Program''). The Program is intended to 
increase displayed liquidity and promote order flow to the Exchange by 
offering a financial incentive for Members to enter displayed orders or 
quotes (i.e., displayed trading interest) priced at the NBBO on the 
Exchange in certain securities designated by the Exchange. As discussed 
below, the SMQ is designed to reward Members that make a significant 
contribution to market quality by providing liquidity at the NBBO in a 
select group of securities for a significant portion of the day (``SMQ 
Securities''). IEX previously filed a proposal to establish an SMQ on 
April 28, 2025 (``First SMQ Filing'').\10\ The First SMQ Filing was 
published for comment in the Federal Register on May 7, 2025.\11\ The 
Exchange withdrew the First SMQ Filing on May 16, 2025, and now submits 
this proposal for immediate effectiveness (``Second SMQ Filing''). The 
Second SMQ Filing makes no changes to the functionality and fees of the 
SMQ Program described in the First SMQ Filing, but provides additional 
detail about the manner in which IEX selects the SMQ Securities.
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    \10\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 102964 (May 1, 
2025), 90 FR 19326 (May 7, 2025) (SR-IEX-2025-06).
    \11\ See supra note 10. The Commission has received no comments 
on the First SMQ Filing.
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    The Program is designed to incentivize the posting of displayed 
trading interest in SMQ Securities through incentive payments. In 
determining which securities to designate as SMQ Securities, IEX 
applies several objective factors concerning each security's trading 
characteristics and generally designates the securities that meet 
certain thresholds with respect to these factors to be SMQ 
Securities.\12\ These factors include IEX's current relative quote 
presence in each security (i.e., displayed order volume and time at the 
NBBO for each security traded on the Exchange), the number of market-
wide daily price changes and the average market-wide quote size for 
each security, and each security's share price and average notional 
value traded.
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    \12\ The Exchange has discussed with Commission staff the 
thresholds it intends to apply to these objective factors.
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    IEX uses the above factors to assess which securities are suitable 
for inclusion in the list of SMQ Securities, with a goal of identifying 
securities in which increased quoting would be impactful to both IEX 
and the market, but not unduly burdensome to its Members in meeting the 
quoting requirements to qualify for the SMQ.
    IEX will publish the list of SMQ Securities on its website (on the 
Fee Schedule), and prior to the start of each month, the Exchange will 
reevaluate and, as applicable, update its list of SMQ Securities. Any 
updates to the list of SMQ Securities will be published on IEX's Fee 
Schedule no later than one day prior to the start of the month (the 
Exchange will endeavor to update its SMQ Securities up to five trading 
days before the next month). IEX believes that the incentives created 
by the SMQ are likely to increase quoting in the SMQ Securities, 
thereby providing improved trading conditions for all market 
participants through narrower spreads and increased depth of liquidity 
available at the NBBO in the SMQ Securities.
    To qualify for the SMQ, a Member must enter displayed trading 
interest (i.e., at least one displayed order or quote of at least one 
round lot size \13\) at either the NBB, the NBO, or the NBBO, for at 
least 40% of time during regular trading hours in at least 50 of the 
SMQ Securities on average per day during the month (the ``Percent Time 
at NBBO'' requirement). On a daily basis, the Exchange will calculate 
the number of SMQ Securities for which each Member's Percent Time at 
NBBO was at least 40% (``SMQ Qualifying Activity''). At the end of the 
month, the Exchange will calculate the monthly average of the Member's 
SMQ Qualifying Activity. If a Member has SMQ Qualifying Activity in at 
least 50 of the SMQ Securities during the month, the Exchange will pay 
the Member the ``SMQ Incentive Fee'' of $125 per SMQ Security for which 
the Member satisfied the SMQ requirements.\14\
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    \13\ See IEX Rule 11.180(a).
    \14\ SMQ Payments will be made for all qualified securities if 
Member had SMQ Qualifying Activity in at least 50 SMQ Securities 
during the month.
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    The following example illustrates how the SMQ will work:
Example
    Assume that in a particular month, IEX has designated 150 
securities as SMQ Securities. There are 21 trading days in that month, 
and on eleven of those days Member A's Percent Time at NBBO is at least 
40% for 100 of the SMQ securities. On the other ten trading days, 
Member A's Percent Time at NBBO is at least 40% for 50 of the SMQ 
securities. At the end of the month, IEX calculates the number of SMQ 
Securities which Member A has at least 40 Percent Time at NBBO to be 76 
\15\ SMQ Securities. IEX provides a lump sum payment of $9,500 to 
Member A ($125 times 76 SMQ Securities) (the ``SMQ Payment''). In that 
same month, Member B's monthly average Percent Time at NBBO is at least 
40% for 60 SMQ Securities for eleven trading days. On the other ten 
trading days, Member B's Percent Time at NBBO is at least 40% for 30 
SMQ Securities. At the end of the month, IEX calculates Member B's SMQ 
Qualifying Activity to average out to 46 SMQ Securities.\16\ Because 
Member B's SMQ Qualifying Activity was in less than 50 SMQ Securities, 
Member B does not receive any lump sum payment pursuant to the Program.
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    \15\ As set forth in the proposed changes to the Fee Schedule, 
the Exchange will calculate the SMQ Qualifying Activity by taking 
the average of the number of SMQ Securities for which the Member's 
Percent Time at NBBO was at least 40% and round that number to the 
nearest whole number. Thus, 76.19 SMQ Securities is rounded to 76.
    \16\ 45.71 is rounded to 46.
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    As proposed, the Percent Time at NBBO calculation will exclude days 
with system disruptions that last for

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more than 60 minutes and days with scheduled early closes when 
determining the numerator and the denominator. An Exchange system 
disruption may occur, for example, where a certain group of securities 
traded on the Exchange is unavailable for trading due to an Exchange 
system issue. Similarly, the Exchange may be able to perform certain 
functions with respect to accepting and processing orders, but may have 
a failure to another significant process, such as routing to other 
market centers, that would lead Members that rely on such process to 
avoid utilizing the Exchange until the Exchange's entire system was 
operational. The Exchange believes that these types of Exchange system 
disruptions could preclude Members from participating on the Exchange 
to the extent that they might have otherwise participated on such days, 
and thus, the Exchange believes it is appropriate to exclude such days 
when determining a Member's Percent Time at NBBO to avoid penalizing 
Members that might otherwise have met the SMQ requirements. For similar 
reasons, the Exchange believes it is appropriate to exclude trading 
days with scheduled early closes, because the shorter trading days are 
likely to result in a lower daily quoting activity for each Member. The 
Exchange notes that excluding system disruption days and trading days 
with scheduled early closes is consistent with the methodologies used 
by other exchanges that offer incentive payments for quoting activity 
on the Exchange.\17\
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    \17\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 94929 (May 17, 
2022), 87 FR 31269 (May 23, 2022) (SR-PEARL-2022-21) (filing 
establishing a Market Quality program similar to this proposal).
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    Additionally, as proposed, the Exchange will exclude from its 
calculations of Percent Time at NBBO for each SMQ Security any portion 
of regular trading hours when the SMQ Security is subject to a trading 
halt or Limit Up-Limit Down pause.\18\ If an SMQ Security were subject 
to a trading halt on IEX, Members would be unable to provide displayed 
trading interest in that security until it resumes trading, and thus 
not excluding the halted time from the Percent Time at NBBO would be 
unfair to Members trying to provide displayed trading interest in the 
SMQ Security. Thus, IEX proposes only to calculate the Percentage Time 
at NBBO for each SMQ Security during times when trading in the security 
is not halted. For example, if an SMQ Security was halted for 30 
minutes during one trading day, and a Member provided displayed trading 
interest in that security at the NBBO for 2.4 hours of that trading 
day, the Member's Percent Time at NBBO for that day would be 40%, 
because 2.4 hours is 40% of 6 hours.\19\
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    \18\ See, e.g., IEX Rules 11.271 and 11.280.
    \19\ If IEX did not exclude the time a security is halted from 
its calculation of Percent Time at NBBO, in this example the 
Member's Percent Time at NBBO would be 37% (2.4 hours divided by the 
full 6.5 hour trading day), and the Member's trading activity in 
that security for that day would not count towards its SMQ 
Qualifying Activity.
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    The Exchange will allow Members to aggregate their Percent Time at 
NBBO with other Members with which they are affiliated,\20\ if Members 
provide prior notice to the Exchange. As proposed, to the extent that 
two or more affiliated companies maintain separate memberships with the 
Exchange and can demonstrate their affiliation by showing they control, 
are controlled by, or are under common control with each other, the 
Exchange would permit such Members to aggregate their Percent Time at 
NBBO. Members will be responsible for having proper internal 
documentation in their books and records substantiating that the two or 
more Members seeking to aggregate their Percent Time at NBBO are 
affiliates of one another. IEX notes that this grouping of Member 
affiliates is consistent with how IEX allows Member affiliates to group 
their trading activity to qualify for IEX's Displayed Liquidity Adding 
Rebate Tiers.
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    \20\ As defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Act, 17 CFR 240.12b-2.
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    The SMQ will be open to all Members and will not impose any two-
sided quotation obligations on any Member seeking to qualify for the 
SMQ. Accordingly, the SMQ is designed to attract liquidity from any 
firm that is willing to provide liquidity at the NBB or NBO in SMQ 
Securities. The Exchange is proposing to provide Members an opportunity 
to earn an SMQ Payment as a means of recognizing the value of market 
participants that consistently enter displayed trading interest at the 
NBBO in the SMQ Securities. Through the Program, the Exchange seeks to 
provide enhanced liquidity for all market participants through more 
displayed trading interest, narrower bid-ask spreads, and increased 
depth of liquidity in the SMQ Securities.
    The Exchange notes that the proposed Supplemental Market Quality 
Program is similar to the Enhanced Market Quality Program offered by 
Nasdaq BX,\21\ which also pays a fixed sum to Members that quote 
exchange-specified securities at the NBBO for at least a minimum 
percentage time of the day.\22\ The proposed SMQ is also similar to the 
``Market Quality'' program offered by MIAX PEARL.\23\ In particular, 
the process by which the Exchange proposes to select SMQ Securities is 
similar to the process applied by MIAX PEARL in selecting securities to 
be ``MQ Securities.'' \24\ Additionally, IEX's process for selecting 
SMQ Securities, which, as described above, is designed to use objective 
criteria to identify securities in which increased quoting would be 
impactful to both IEX and the market is analogous to the manner in 
which Cboe EDGA's new NBBO Setter Program provides a rebate for quoting 
in ``illiquid securities on the Exchange.'' \25\ Finally, the Exchange 
notes that its proposed SMQ is also similar to recently discontinued 
quote revenue sharing program of Nasdaq PSX.\26\
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    \21\ See Nasdaq BX Equities VII Section 118(g).
    \22\ Nasdaq BX's Enhanced Market Quality Program (``EMQP'') sets 
different percentage thresholds depending upon if the security is 
quoted on Tape A or B (and does not Tape C securities). The EMQP 
also increases its incentive fees based upon the number of 
securities quoted at the NBBO for at least the threshold percentage 
of market hours. Id. These differences between the proposed SMQ and 
the EMQP reflect different pricing approaches of different 
exchanges, but the core functionality of the two programs is 
substantially similar.
    \23\ See supra note 17. While MIAX PEARL uses quoting at the 
NBBO in the ``Market Quality Securities'' as a means of qualifying 
for certain rebate tiers (and not to pay a flat sum to qualifying 
Members like IEX proposes), the Market Quality program is like IEX's 
proposed SMQ in that it provides financial incentives to Members 
based upon increased quoting in a subset of securities specified by 
the exchange. Id.
    \24\ MIAX PEARL's original Market Quality program filing 
described its methodology for selecting ``MQ Securities'' as an 
analysis of volume statistics and time at the NBBO. See supra note 
17. In subsequent filings, MIAX PEARL stated that the ``list of MQ 
Securities is generally based on the top multi-listed symbols by ADV 
across all U.S. securities exchanges.'' See Securities Exchange Act 
Release No. 101611 (November 13, 2024), 89 FR 91455 (November 19, 
2024) (SR-PEARL-2024-50).
    \25\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 102842 (April 11, 
2025), 90 FR 16356 (April 17, 2025) (SR-CboeEDGA-2025-009) 
(providing a rebate for quoting in approximately 9,700 securities 
that are not on an excluded securities list, with the excluded 
securities list being a combination of securities included in the 
S&P 500 Index, the Nasdaq 100 Index, and ``certain ETPs the Exchange 
believes have a high level of liquidity'').
    \26\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-100060 (May 3, 
2024), 89 FR 39668 (May 9, 2024) (SR-Phlx-2024-18) (Establishing the 
quote revenue sharing program) and Securities Exchange Act Release 
No. 34-102844 (April 11, 2025), 90 FR 16226 (April 17, 2025) (SR-
Phlx-2025-19) (terminating the program because it ``no longer 
provides a growth incentive that is aligned with the Exchange's 
needs'').
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2. Statutory Basis
    IEX believes that the proposed rule change is consistent with the 
provisions of Section 6(b) \27\ of the Act in general,

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and furthers the objectives of Sections 6(b)(4) \28\ of the Act, in 
particular, in that it is designed to provide for the equitable 
allocation of reasonable dues, fees and other charges among its Members 
and other persons using its facilities. The Exchange believes that the 
proposed fee change is reasonable, fair and equitable, and non-
discriminatory.
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    \27\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \28\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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    The Exchange operates in a highly competitive market in which 
market participants can readily direct order flow to competing venues 
if they deem fee levels at a particular venue to be excessive. IEX has 
concluded that, in the context of current regulatory requirements 
governing access fees and rebates, it is able to more effectively 
compete with other exchanges for order flow by offering Members an 
additional incentive for posting displayed liquidity on the Exchange in 
securities that have a relatively lower volume of displayed orders 
priced at the NBBO on the Exchange compared to other securities. Based 
upon informal discussions with market participants, IEX believes that 
Members and other market participants may be more willing to send 
displayed trading interest to IEX if the proposed fee change is 
adopted.
    Accordingly, IEX has designed the proposed change to further 
incentivize Members to send displayed quotes at the NBBO in lower 
displayed volume securities. IEX believes that an increase in displayed 
liquidity and order flow to the Exchange will, in turn, improve the 
quality of the IEX market and increase its attractiveness to existing 
and prospective participants. In addition, the proposal is equitable 
and not unfairly discriminatory as the proposal would equitably 
allocate SMQ Payments among Members by paying Members based on their 
total quoting activity in SMQ Securities in any given month.
    Additionally, IEX believes the manner in which it selects 
securities for inclusion in the SMQ Securities list is consistent with 
the Act because it is reasonable, equitable, and not unfairly 
discriminatory (to customers, issuers, brokers or dealers). As 
discussed in the Purpose section, IEX designates securities to be SMQ 
Securities by applying several objective factors concerning each 
security's trading characteristics and generally designating the 
securities that meet certain thresholds with respect to these factors 
to be SMQ Securities. These factors are designed to identify securities 
in which increased quoting would be impactful to both IEX and the 
market, but not unduly burdensome to its Members in meeting the quoting 
requirements to qualify for the SMQ. Because the process of selecting 
SMQ Securities is designed to use objective criteria to create a list 
of securities for which inclusion in the Program could meaningfully 
increase displayed liquidity (increasing price improvement 
opportunities for those securities), it is consistent with the goals of 
the Act to remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free 
and open market.
    As noted in the Purpose section, the Exchange believes the proposed 
incentive payments in the Supplemental Market Quality Program will 
incentivize Members to direct additional displayed liquidity-providing 
orders to the Exchange in SMQ Securities, thereby promoting price 
discovery and market quality in the SMQ Securities and more generally 
on the Exchange, and, further, that the resulting increased displayed 
liquidity and narrower spreads will benefit all investors by deepening 
the Exchange's liquidity pool, supporting the quality of price 
discovery, enhancing quoting competition across all exchanges, and 
promoting market transparency.
    As discussed above, the Exchange operates in a highly competitive 
market in which market participants can readily direct order flow to 
competing venues if they deem fee levels at a particular venue to be 
excessive. Within that context, the proposed incentive payments are 
designed to attract more displayed trading interest to the Exchange. 
The proposed SMQ is comparable to the MQ Tiers of MIAX PEARL and the 
Enhanced Market Quality Program of Nasdaq BX, and thus IEX does not 
believe that the proposal raises any new or novel issues not already 
considered by the Commission in the context of other exchanges' 
fees.\29\
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    \29\ See supra notes 17 and 21.
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    Finally, to the extent this proposed fee change is successful in 
incentivizing the entry and execution of displayed trading interest on 
IEX, such greater liquidity will benefit all market participants by 
increasing price discovery and price formation as well as market 
quality and execution opportunities.

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

    IEX does not believe that the proposed rule change will result in 
any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate in 
furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The Exchange does not believe 
that the proposed rule change will impose any burden on intermarket 
competition that is not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the 
purposes of the Act. The Exchange operates in a highly competitive 
market in which market participants can readily favor competing venues 
if fee schedules at other venues are viewed as more favorable. 
Consequently, the Exchange believes that the degree to which IEX fees 
could impose any burden on competition is extremely limited and does 
not believe that such fees would burden competition between Members or 
competing venues. Moreover, as noted in the Statutory Basis section, 
the Exchange does not believe that the proposed changes raise any new 
or novel issues not already considered by the Commission.
    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
impose any burden on intramarket competition that is not necessary or 
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act because, while 
different Members may qualify for different amounts of SMQ Payments, 
these payments are not based on the type of Member entering the 
displayed trading interest, but rather on the amount of displayed 
trading interest each Member submits to the Exchange. Further, the 
proposed fee changes are intended to incentivize market participants to 
bring increased order flow to the Exchange, which benefits all market 
participants.

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

    Written comments were neither solicited nor 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 \30\ and paragraph (f) of Rule 19b-4 \31\ 
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 shall institute proceedings to 
determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or 
disapproved.
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    \30\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \31\ 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

    <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#1664637a733b75797b7b737862655665737538717960"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="deacabb2bbf3bdb1b3b3bbb0aaad9eadbbbdf0b9b1a8">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Please include 
file number SR-IEX-2025-07 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-IEX-2025-07. 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 
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-IEX-2025-07 and should be 
submitted on or before June 23, 2025.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\32\
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    \32\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Stephanie J. Fouse,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-09855 Filed 5-30-25; 8:45 am]
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