Notice2025-17714

Joint Industry Plan; Order Approving an Amendment to the National Market System Plan Establishing Procedures Under Rule 605 of Regulation NMS, as Modified by the Commission, To Reflect Recent Amendments to Rule 605 of Regulation NMS

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 176 (Monday, September 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44438-44442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-103939; File No. 4-518]


Joint Industry Plan; Order Approving an Amendment to the National 
Market System Plan Establishing Procedures Under Rule 605 of Regulation 
NMS, as Modified by the Commission, To Reflect Recent Amendments to 
Rule 605 of Regulation NMS

September 10, 2025.

I. Introduction

    On May 30, 2025,\1\ FINRA, on behalf of itself and the parties \2\ 
to the National Market System Plan Establishing Procedures Under Rule 
605 of Regulation NMS (the ``Rule 605 NMS Plan'' or ``Plan''), filed 
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Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to 
Section 11A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'' or 
``Act'') \3\ and Rule 608 of Regulation National Market System 
(``NMS'') thereunder,\4\ a proposal to amend the Rule 605 NMS Plan.\5\ 
The proposal represents the first substantive amendment to the Plan 
(``Proposed Amendment'') and proposes to reflect the Commission's 
recent amendments to Rule 605 \6\ and to make certain technical updates 
to modernize the operation of the Plan. These changes were unanimously 
approved by the Participants. The Proposed Amendment was published for 
comment in the Federal Register on June 17, 2025.\7\ The Commission has 
not received any comments on the Proposed Amendment. This order 
approves the Proposed Amendment to the Plan, as modified herein with 
changes that the Commission deems are appropriate to reflect the 
addition of 24X as a Participant.\8\ The Commission finds that the 
Proposed Amendment, as modified, is appropriate in the public interest, 
for the protection of investors and the maintenance of fair and orderly 
markets, to remove impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of a 
national market system, or is otherwise in furtherance of the purposes 
of the Act.\9\ A copy of the Proposed Amendment, marked to reflect the 
technical modifications the Commission has made, is attached in 
Appendix A to this order.
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    \1\ See letter from Robert McNamee, Vice President and Associate 
General Counsel, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. 
(``FINRA'') dated May 30, 2025 (``Transmittal Letter'').
    \2\ The current parties to the Plan (``Participants'') are: 24X 
National Exchange LLC (``24X''); Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Cboe BYX 
Exchange, Inc.; Cboe EDGA Exchange, Inc.; Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.; 
FINRA; Investors Exchange LLC; Long-Term Stock Exchange, Inc.; MEMX 
LLC; MIAX PEARL, LLC; Nasdaq BX, Inc.; Nasdaq PHLX LLC; The Nasdaq 
Stock Market LLC; New York Stock Exchange, LLC; NYSE American LLC; 
NYSE Arca Inc.; NYSE Texas, Inc.; and NYSE National Inc. As 
discussed further below, 24X became a Participant on July 8, 2025.
    \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
    \4\ 17 CFR 242.608.
    \5\ On April 21, 2001, the Commission approved a NMS plan for 
the purpose of establishing procedures for market centers to follow 
in making their monthly reports available to the public under Rule 
11Ac1-5 under the Exchange Act (n/k/a Rule 605 of Regulation NMS 
(``Rule 605'')) (``Original Rule 605 NMS Plan Order''). See 
Securities Exchange Act Release No. 44177 (April 12, 2001), 66 FR 
19814 (April 17, 2001). The Plan has been amended ten times since it 
was approved by the Commission, in each case solely to add new 
Participants to the Plan and most recently in July 2025. See 
Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103482 (July 17, 2025), 90 FR 
34528 (July 22, 2025) (adding 24X as a Participant in the Plan) 
(``24X Amendment''). The Plan has not been substantively amended 
since it was originally approved by the Commission in 2001.
    \6\ See infra note 11 and accompanying text.
    \7\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103243 (June 12, 
2025), 90 FR 25721 (June 17, 2025) (``Notice'').
    \8\ On July 8, 2025, 24X filed the 24X Amendment, which modified 
the Plan to add 24X as a Participant by adding 24X's name in Section 
II(a) of the Plan and adding its single-digit code in Section 
VI(a)(1) of the Plan. The 24X Amendment became effective immediately 
upon filing pursuant to Rule 608(b)(3)(iii) of Regulation NMS, 17 
CFR 242.608(b)(3)(iii), because it involved solely technical or 
ministerial matters. See 24X Amendment, supra note 5.
    \9\ 17 CFR 242.608(b)(2).
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II. Background and Description of the Proposal

A. Background

    The Plan sets forth procedures for Rule 605 reporting entities to 
follow in making available to the public their monthly reports on 
execution quality in NMS stocks in a uniform, readily accessible, and 
usable electronic format. Currently, Section IV of the Plan provides an 
overview of the procedures under the Plan for reporting entities to 
make available to the public their Rule 605 reports in the form of 
electronic data files that meet the requirements set forth in Sections 
V and VI of the Plan. Section V of the Plan specifies the file type, 
compression, and naming requirements for Rule 605 reports, and Section 
VI of the Plan sets forth the required file structure to be used to 
publish the monthly reports. Sections VII, VIII, and IX of the Plan set 
forth requirements for making reports available to the public and 
detail the functions of a Designated Participant.\10\ Sections I, II, 
III, X, XI, and XII of the Plan pertain to administrative and 
operational matters, including definitions used in the Plan, 
specification of regular trading hours under the Plan, procedures for 
amending the Plan, and withdrawal of a Participant from the Plan.
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    \10\ See Section I of the Plan (defining the term ``Designated 
Participant'' as the Participant with which each reporting entity 
``has made the arrangements set forth in Section VIII of the 
Plan'').
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B. Description of the Proposal

    On March 6, 2024, the Commission adopted amendments to Rule 605, 
which, among other things, expand the scope of entities subject to Rule 
605 (including larger broker-dealers, in addition to market centers), 
modify the categorization and content of information required to be 
disclosed in the detailed execution quality reports published under 
Rule 605 (including by modifying the scope of covered orders subject to 
disclosures), and require reporting entities to produce a summary 
report of execution quality in addition to the existing detailed 
disclosures regarding execution quality for covered orders in NMS 
stocks.\11\
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    \11\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 99679 (March 6, 
2024), 89 FR 26428 (April 15, 2024) (``Rule 605 Amendments''). When 
adopting the Rule 605 Amendments, the Commission stated that ``the 
Rule 605 NMS Plan will need to be updated to: (1) incorporate 
references to broker-dealers subject to Rule 605; (2) account for 
summary reports that will be required under Rule 605(a)(2); and (3) 
incorporate the new data fields that will be required under Rule 
605(a)(1) for the detailed reports.'' Id. at 26496.
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1. Changes To Incorporate Rule 605 Amendments
    The Participants propose to amend the Plan to conform to the recent 
amendments to Rule 605 in several aspects. The Participants propose to 
amend the Plan to add references to brokers and dealers, in addition to 
market centers, in each instance where such reporting entities are 
referenced in the Plan.\12\ In addition, the Participants propose to 
amend the Plan to include references to the new summary reports 
required under paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 605 in Sections IV, VII,\13\ 
and VIII of the Plan establishing procedures to make Rule 605 reports 
publicly available. The new summary reports would be made available in 
the same place, and in accordance with the same procedures, as the 
detailed reports.\14\
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    \12\ The Rule 605 Amendments also clarify the separate treatment 
of single dealer platforms and alternative trading systems for 
purposes of Rule 605 reports. The Proposed Amendment would also 
update footnotes in the Plan to reflect these clarifications.
    \13\ The Participants also propose to amend Section VII to 
clarify that a market center, broker, or dealer shall make available 
the files containing the monthly reports for a period of three years 
from the initial date of posting on the internet site of the market 
center, broker, or dealer, as required by Rule 605(a)(5).
    \14\ The Commission stated in the Rule 605 Amendments that 
``final Rule 605(a)(2) requires the use of the Commission's schema 
for CSV format and associated PDF renderer, and therefore the Rule 
605 NMS Plan does not establish the formats and fields for the 
summary report.'' See Rule 605 Amendments, 89 FR 26428, 26490 n.846. 
Accordingly, the Participants are not proposing any specifications 
with respect to the summary reports in Sections V and VI of the 
Plan.
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    The Participants also propose to remove obsolete data fields and 
incorporate the new data fields required by Rule 605(a)(1) to be 
reflected in the detailed monthly reports. Specifically, the 
Participants propose to remove the existing text of Section VI(a) and 
instead incorporate by reference a new Exhibit A to the Plan. Exhibit A 
sets forth, in tabular format, each of the required data fields for the 
detailed monthly report, including the Column # in the file, the Rule 
605 reference (if applicable), the required name of the Field Header 
(as described below), the Field Description, the Data Type (i.e., 
String, Integer, or Decimal), Valid Values, and Additional Notes 
(including, e.g., required rounding methodology as discussed below). 
The Participants also propose to add field headers for each data field 
included in the detailed reports required under Rule 605(a)(1), as 
specified in Exhibit A to the Plan. Within Exhibit A, the Participants 
propose a consistent rounding methodology to six decimal places for 
reporting values. The Participants also

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propose an order type categorization in Exhibit A that the Participants 
believe will facilitate users' ability to analyze the Rule 605 
reports.\15\ Finally, the Participants propose to increase the maximum 
number of records to 240 for each individual security.\16\
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    \15\ The Participants propose order type codes that correspond 
to a tabular layout as follows: Market Orders--``MXXNN''; Marketable 
Limit Orders--``LYNNN''; Marketable IOC Orders--``LYNYN''; Midpoint-
or-better Limit Orders--``LNYNN''; Midpoint-or-better Limit IOC 
Orders--``LNYYN''; Executable non-marketable Limit Orders--
``LNNNN''; Executable non-marketable IOC Orders--``LNNYN''; 
Executable Stop Market Orders--``MXXNY''; Executable Stop marketable 
Limit Orders--``LYNNY''; Executable Stop non-marketable Limit 
Orders--``LNNNY.'' In this symbology, ``M'' means market, ``L'' 
means limit, ``X'' means not relevant to the order type (i.e., it 
cannot occur), ``Y'' means yes (i.e., the attribute applies), and 
``N'' means no (i.e., the attribute does not apply).
    \16\ The Participants also propose to update Section VI(b) to 
remove outdated examples of when there may be no data for a 
particular field.
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2. Changes to the Operation of the Plan
    The Participants also propose to make certain changes regarding the 
technical operation of the Plan. The Participants first propose to 
amend Section V of the Plan to modernize the file types required for 
the detailed monthly files required under Rule 605(a)(1). Specifically, 
the Participants propose to change the file type convention for 
uncompressed files to ``.txt'' rather than ``.dat'' format. 
Additionally, the Participants propose to add Gzip as an alternative 
compression standard, in addition to Zip, with the accompanying file 
extension of ``.gz''.
    The Participants also propose to amend Section III(c) of the Plan, 
which currently provides that each Participant select a representative 
to form an Advisory Committee on Plan Amendments. Since this committee 
is formed by representatives of the Participants themselves, the 
Participants propose to rename it the Operating Committee of the Plan, 
in line with other, more recently adopted NMS plans. The Participants 
further propose to clarify that the Operating Committee will (i) 
monitor the operation of the procedures established pursuant to the 
Plan; (ii) consider any feedback or recommendations that it may receive 
from market participants regarding the procedures established pursuant 
to the Plan; and (iii) in consultation with market participants, as 
appropriate, recommend any amendments to the Plan as the Operating 
Committee may deem appropriate to correct any deficiencies or problems 
observed in, or otherwise improve, the operation of the procedures 
established pursuant to the Plan. The Proposed Amendment would also 
clarify that any recommendation for an amendment to the Plan from the 
Operating Committee that receives a unanimous vote would be submitted 
to the Commission as a proposed amendment to the Plan.\17\
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    \17\ The Participants also propose to update Section III(c) to 
remove the current requirement that any recommendation receiving 
less than a unanimous vote (but at least a two-thirds vote) shall be 
submitted to the Commission as a request for rulemaking. The 
Participants do not believe this provision is needed, as each 
Participant, or any subset of Participants, has the independent 
ability to submit to the Commission a petition for rulemaking 
irrespective of any vote of the Operating Committee.
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    In addition, the Participants propose to add new Section IV(d) of 
the Plan to avoid duplicative efforts in circumstances where a 
reporting entity subject to Rule 605 is required by the rules of a 
self-regulatory organization (``SRO'') to submit Rule 605 reports to 
the SRO for publication intended to facilitate centralized access to 
Rule 605 reports. Specifically, Section IV(d) would state that a 
reporting entity would not be subject to the requirement to provide a 
hyperlink to its Rule 605 reports to its Designated Participant, and 
such Designated Participant would not be required to post that 
reporting entity's hyperlink, to the extent the reporting entity is 
required by the rules of an SRO to submit its Rule 605 reports for 
centralized publication on a public website.
    Last, the Participants propose to amend the requirements for the 
maintenance and identification of files by removing existing Section 
VIII(b) of the Plan and revising Section VIII(a) of the Plan to provide 
for both the assignment and publication of identification codes by 
Designated Participants. Specifically, amended Section VIII(a) would 
provide that the unique identification codes assigned to each market 
center, broker, or dealer shall be made available on a free and 
publicly accessible website, and would continue to require that the 
Designated Participants act jointly to assure that no market center, 
broker, or dealer is assigned a code that previously has been assigned.
3. Administrative Changes
    The Participants propose to make several administrative changes to 
the Plan to (1) add a formal title to the Plan text; (2) add a preamble 
to the Plan; (3) update cross-references to Commission rules throughout 
the Plan; and (4) update the list of Plan Participants and associated 
addresses.

III. Discussion, Modifications by the Commission, and Commission 
Findings

    After careful review, the Commission is approving the Proposed 
Amendment, as modified, for the reasons discussed below. Section 11A of 
the Act authorizes the Commission, by rule or order, to authorize or 
require the self-regulatory organizations to act jointly with respect 
to matters as to which they share authority under the Act in planning, 
developing, operating, or regulating a facility of the national market 
system.\18\ Rule 608 of Regulation NMS authorizes two or more SROs, 
acting jointly, to file with the Commission proposed amendments to an 
effective NMS Plan,\19\ and further provides that the Commission shall 
approve an amendment to an effective NMS Plan, with such changes or 
subject to such conditions as the Commission may deem necessary or 
appropriate, if it finds that the amendment is necessary or appropriate 
in the public interest, for the protection of investors and the 
maintenance of fair and orderly markets, to remove impediments to, and 
perfect the mechanisms of, a national market system, or otherwise in 
furtherance of the purposes of the Act.\20\
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    \18\ See 15 U.S.C. 78k-1(a)(3)(B).
    \19\ See 17 CFR 242.608.
    \20\ See 17 CFR 242.608(b)(2).
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    The Proposed Amendment, as modified, is consistent with the Act 
and, for the reasons described below, meets the applicable standard 
provided in Rule 608 of Regulation NMS.\21\ The original Rule 605 Plan 
was approved in 2001 \22\ and the Plan has not been updated since that 
time, except to add new Participants to the Plan. Rule 605(a)(3) 
provides that every national securities exchange on which NMS stocks 
are traded and each national securities association shall act jointly 
in establishing procedures for market centers, brokers, and dealers to 
follow in making available to the public the reports required by Rule 
605 in a uniform, readily accessible, and usable electronic form.\23\ 
Accordingly, the Plan must be amended to incorporate changes made to 
Rule 605 in the recent Rule 605 Amendments.\24\ Overall, the Proposed 
Amendment ensures the Plan continues to provide appropriate procedures 
for market centers, brokers, and dealers to follow in making their 
monthly reports required pursuant to Rule 605 available to the public 
in a uniform, readily accessible, and usable

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electronic format. The Proposed Amendment will therefore promote 
uniform public disclosure of order execution information by all 
reporting entities. Moreover, the Proposed Amendment will update and 
modernize operation of the Plan.
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    \21\ See 17 CFR 242.608.
    \22\ See Original Rule 605 NMS Plan Order, supra note 5.
    \23\ 17 CFR 242.605(a)(3).
    \24\ See supra note 11.
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    The Participants propose to amend the Plan to conform to the Rule 
605 Amendments in several aspects. The Participants propose to include 
throughout the Plan references to broker-dealers subject to Rule 605 
and references to the summary reports that are required under Rule 
605(a)(2). The Participants also propose to incorporate the new data 
fields required under Rule 605(a)(1) for detailed reports and remove 
obsolete data fields, in part by providing new Exhibit A to the Plan, 
which will set forth the required data fields in tabular format rather 
than descriptive text.
    The Proposed Amendment updates the Plan to reflect the recent Rule 
605 Amendments.\25\ In the Rule 605 Amendments, the Commission, among 
other things, expanded the scope of reporting entities subject to Rule 
605 to include, in addition to market centers, broker-dealers who 
introduce or carry 100,000 or more customer accounts.\26\ The 
Commission also required all reporting entities subject to Rule 605 to 
publish, in addition to the existing detailed monthly execution quality 
report, a new monthly summary report.\27\ In addition, the Commission 
adopted new execution quality statistics to be provided in the Rule 
605(a)(1) detailed monthly reports of market center, brokers, and 
dealers.\28\ The Participants proposed new Exhibit A to present the 
file structure requirements for the data required by Rule 605(a)(1) in 
a chart format and included new column headers, a proposed rounding 
methodology, and a proposed order type categorization. According to the 
Participants, the proposed requirements were designed, in consultation 
with market participants,\29\ in an effort to develop a detailed data 
file format that provides the execution quality information required to 
be disclosed under Rule 605(a)(1) in the most useful and efficient 
manner for users of the data consistent with current industry 
standards.\30\ The proposed changes to the content and format of the 
data files should make the files both more efficient to populate for 
reporting entities and more readable and comparable for users of the 
data.
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    \25\ See Rule 605 Amendments, supra note 11, at 26496.
    \26\ See Rule 605(a)(7).
    \27\ See Rule 605(a)(2).
    \28\ See Rule 605(a)(1). The Rule 605 Amendments amended the 
scope of the detailed monthly reports required under Rule 605(a)(1), 
including by amending the definition of ``covered order'' to include 
any non-marketable limit order (``NMLO'') (including an order 
submitted with a stop price) received outside of regular trading 
hours that become executable after the opening or reopening of 
trading during regular trading hours; certain orders submitted with 
stop prices, and non-exempt short sales orders when a short sale 
price test is not in effect; modifying existing order size 
categories to base them on a notional dollar value range with an 
indication that the category reflects orders that were for an odd-
lot, a round lot, or less than a share; establishing four new order 
type categories: marketable immediate-or-cancel orders, executable 
market orders submitted with stop prices, executable market limit 
orders submitted with stop prices, and executable non-marketable 
limit orders with stop prices; and replacing the three existing 
categories of non-marketable order types with four new order types 
(midpoint-or-better limit orders, midpoint-or-better immediate-or-
cancel orders, non-marketable limit orders, and non-marketable 
immediate-or-cancel orders). Further, the Rule 605 Amendments 
amended the content of the detailed monthly reports to require more 
granular time-to-execution buckets measured in milliseconds or 
finer; realized spread statistics calculated using additional time 
horizons; and new statistical measures of execution quality, 
including: average effective spread divided by quoted spread; 
percentage-based effective and realized spread statistics; a size 
improvement benchmark and statistic; statistical measures that could 
be used to measure execution quality of NMLOs; and additional price 
improvement statistics for market and marketable orders.
    \29\ See, e.g., Transmittal Letter, supra note 1, at 5.
    \30\ See Notice, supra note 7, at 25722.
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    As discussed above, the Participants also proposed to make certain 
changes to the technical operation of the Plan. These technical and 
operational updates should modernize the operation of the Plan and are 
consistent with the requirements of Rule 605. Among other things, the 
proposed file format and addition of an alternative compression 
standard could benefit users by improving readability and compatibility 
of files and aiding in the storage and transfer of the detailed monthly 
files required by Rule 605. The proposed changes to the former Advisory 
Commission on Plan Amendments clarify the role of the Operating 
Committee going forward and could help Plan Participants consider 
feedback from market participants with respect to the need for, or 
content of, any future amendments to the Plan.\31\ The proposed changes 
provide an exception to the requirement that the reporting entity and 
Designated Participant must each provide and post a hyperlink to the 
reporting entity's Rule 605 reports in cases where the reporting entity 
is required by the rules of an SRO to provides its Rule 605 reports for 
centralized publication on a public website. This should mitigate the 
likelihood of duplication where the purpose of the Designated 
Participant hyperlink posting is already fulfilled through other 
means.\32\ The proposed changes to the procedures regarding maintenance 
and identification of files would remove outdated requirements and 
provide greater flexibility to Designated Participants regarding the 
method by which the Participants assign and publish the unique 
identification codes assigned to each market center, broker, or dealer.
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    \31\ The proposed changes regarding the Operating Committee 
would not substantively alter the threshold for submission of a 
proposed amendment to the Plan, as the current Plan already requires 
that a proposed amendment be executed on behalf of each Participant. 
Further, each Participant, or any subset of Participants, has the 
independent ability to submit to the Commission a petition for 
rulemaking irrespective of any vote of the Operating Committee.
    \32\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103325 (June 25, 
2025), 90 FR 27882, 27884 (June 30, 2025) (approving SR-FINRA-2025-
002, which adopted FINRA Rule 6152 to require FINRA members to 
submit their order execution reports for NMS stock to FINRA for 
publication on the FINRA website, and stating that ``the creation of 
a centralized electronic repository will promote greater 
transparency by better enabling market participants to access and 
evaluate the reports of multiple reporting entities because the 
reports would be available at a single location'').
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    The Participants also propose to make several administrative 
changes to the Plan to (1) add a formal title to the Plan text; (2) add 
a Preamble to the Plan; (3) update cross-references to Commission rules 
throughout the Plan; and (4) update the list of Plan Participants and 
associated addresses. These proposed changes will improve readability 
of the Plan. The changes will also help avoid confusion regarding 
information concerning Plan Participants.
    Finally, subsequent to the date that the Participants filed the 
Proposed Amendment, 24X became a Participant to the Plan.\33\ 
Accordingly, the Commission deems it appropriate to modify the Proposed 
Amendment to (1) add 24X's name in Section II(a) of the Plan; and (2) 
add 24X's single-digit code to the list of codes to be used to identify 
the Participant that is acting as the reporting entity's Designated 
Participant in Exhibit A to the Plan.
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    \33\ See supra note 8 (stating that the 24X Amendment, which was 
immediately effective pursuant to Rule 608(b)(3)(iii), added 24X's 
name in Section II(a) of the Plan and added its single-digit code in 
Section VI(a)(1) of the Plan). Under the Proposed Amendment, Section 
VI(a) of the Plan will provide that the order and format fields 
required under Rule 605(a)(1) will be set forth in Exhibit A to the 
Plan. Thus, whereas Section VI(a)(1) of the original Plan set forth 
the codes identifying the Participant that is acting as Designated 
Participant for the market center, as proposed, Exhibit A will 
specify the codes to be used to identify the Participant that is 
acting as the reporting entity's Designated Participant.

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IV. Conclusion

    For the reasons discussed above, the Commission finds that the 
Proposed Amendment, as modified, is consistent with the requirements of 
section 11A of the Exchange Act,\34\ and Rule 608 thereunder,\35\ and 
that the Proposed Amendment is appropriate in the public interest, for 
the protection of investors and the maintenance of fair and orderly 
markets, to remove impediments to, and perfect the mechanism of, a 
national market system, or otherwise in furtherance of the purposes of 
the Exchange Act.
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    \34\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
    \35\ 17 CFR 242.608(b)(2).
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    It is therefore ordered, pursuant to Section 11A of the Act,\36\ 
and
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    \36\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
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    Rule 608(b)(2) thereunder,\37\ that the Proposed Amendment to the 
Plan (File No. 4-518), as modified herein, is approved.
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    \37\ 17 CFR 242.608(b)(2).

    By the Commission.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
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