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[Release No. 34–57363; File No.–CHX–2007–
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• Send paper comments in triplicate
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change that are filed with the
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proposed rule change between the
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2008.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.9
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations;
Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.; Notice
of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as
Modified by Amendment No. 1, To
Amend Rules Relating to Registration
Requirements
February 20, 2008.
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 October
9, 2007, the Chicago Stock Exchange,
Inc. (‘‘CHX’’ 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 substantially prepared by
CHX. On February 14, 2008, CHX filed
Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule
change.3 The Commission is publishing
this notice to solicit comments on the
proposed rule change, as amended, from
interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of the Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
CHX proposes to amend its
registration requirements to require
CHX participants to use the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.’s
(‘‘FINRA’’) Web Central Registration
Depository (‘‘Web CRD’’) to register
associated persons who are required to
register with the Exchange under CHX
rules. The Exchange would also amend
its Fees Schedule (the ‘‘Fee Schedule’’)
to include fees that would be charged in
connection with the use of Web CRD.
The text of this proposed rule change is
available at CHX, on the Exchange’s
Web site at https://www.chx.com, and in
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,
CHX 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. CHX has prepared
1 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
CFR 240.19b–4.
3 Amendment No. 1 replaced and superseded the
original filing in its entirety.
2 17
9 17
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
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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
FINRA’s Web CRD system is a
centralized, web-based system used by
securities exchanges and broker-dealers
across the country to track registration
and qualification information about
firms and the individuals who work for
those firms. The Exchange has entered
into an agreement with FINRA to allow
the Exchange’s participants to use Web
CRD to register certain of their
associated persons. Through this
proposal, the Exchange seeks to amend
its registration rules and Fee Schedule:
(a) To require Exchange participants to
use Web CRD to register associated
persons who are required to register
with the Exchange under CHX rules; (b)
to allow CHX to determine whether
participants should submit fingerprints
to CHX or to FINRA for processing
during the registration process; and (c)
to adopt new fees to cover charges
assessed by FINRA for its work in
processing fingerprints or the materials
submitted through the Web CRD system.
CHX would also delete a provision that
requires firms to notify CHX of the
termination of any non-registered,
associated person’s employment.4
The first part of this proposal would
require CHX participants to use the Web
CRD system to register certain of their
associated persons.5 Today, CHX
participants that are not members of
FINRA do not have access to the Web
CRD system for registering their
associated persons. Instead of using this
on-line tool, those participants must
handle their registration and continuing
education processes manually, by filing
paperwork with CHX. CHX staff must
process and store this paperwork in
hard copy form. To alleviate the need
for manual processing and to ensure
that other regulatory benefits are
4 See Article 6, Rule 2, Interpretations and
Policies .03. CHX believes that this requirement has
become somewhat obsolete with CHX’s move to its
new trading model (and the elimination of its
physical trading floor), because the requirement
had, in effect, been largely focused on the
employment status of clerks working on the
Exchange’s trading floor. Because the Exchange no
longer has a physical trading floor, it is no longer
as important to learn of the termination of a clerk’s
employment with a participant firm. Moreover,
CHX regularly receives an updated list of a firm’s
associated persons when it conducts its annual
examinations.
5 See Proposed Article 6, Rule 2, Interpretations
and Policies .01.
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achieved, the Exchange believes that it
is appropriate to require CHX
participants to use Web CRD to register
associated persons who are required to
register with the Exchange under CHX
rules.6 Among other things, use of the
Web CRD system would allow all
information relating to the registration
of associated persons to be compiled in
one central repository for access by
regulators and broker-dealers and would
permit the automated tracking of a
registered person’s continuing
education requirements, if any.
In addition, under this proposal, CHX
participants would be required to
submit any required fingerprints to
either the Exchange or to FINRA for
processing.7 Under the Exchange’s
current rules, CHX participants submit
fingerprints to the Exchange for
processing.8 Under the proposal, the
Exchange would have the discretion to
continue this process or to require its
participants to submit fingerprint cards
to FINRA for processing. The Exchange
seeks this flexibility so that it can
determine, from time to time, which
fingerprint processing method is most
efficient for the Exchange and for its
participants.
Finally, because FINRA would assess
charges to CHX participants for using
the Web CRD system and for processing
any fingerprints that are submitted, the
Exchange also seeks to amend its Fee
Schedule to include applicable
registration, processing and termination
fees, as well as various fingerprint
charges.9
The Exchange anticipates that its
participants would be able to begin
6 Under CHX rules, a variety of persons,
including, but not limited to, officers, partners,
principal stockholders, and directors of a
participant firm, must register with the Exchange,
as well as any person acting as an institutional
broker representative or as a market maker trader
or any person listed on Schedules A, B or C of a
participant firm’s Form BD. See Article 6, Rule 2(b).
These registration rules only apply to participant
firms for which the Exchange is the designated
examining authority and to registered persons of
other participant firms where the registered persons
act as institutional broker representatives or market
maker traders on the Exchange. See Article 6, Rule
2, Interpretations and Policies .04.
7 See Proposed Article 6, Rule 10, Interpretations
and Policies .01.
8 When the Exchange receives fingerprints, the
Exchange processes them through the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (‘‘FBI’’). The FBI retrieves
criminal history information associated with those
fingerprints and returns reports to the Exchange for
review.
9 These charges include an $85 registration fee; a
$95 disclosure processing fee; a $30 annual
processing fee; and termination fees of $40 and $80.
Fingerprint processing fees would be $30.25 per
card for an initial submission; $13 per card for a
second submission; and $30.25 per card for a third
submission. These fees reflect the charges assessed
by FINRA for these services; CHX is not charging
any additional fees of its own.
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using Web CRD for registering
associated persons in mid-March 2008
and plans to allow its participants to
transition to the use of the Web CRD
system over the course of a six to ninemonth period.10 At the end of this
period, CHX participants would be
required to use Web CRD for submitting
any registration materials required by
CHX rules.
2. Statutory Basis
CHX believes the proposal is
consistent with the requirements of the
Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder that are applicable to a
national securities exchange, and, in
particular, with the requirements of
Section 6(b) of the Act.11 The proposed
rule change is consistent with Section
6(b)(5) of the Act 12 because it would
promote just and equitable principles of
trade, remove impediments to, and
perfect the mechanism of, a free and
open market and a national market
system, and, in general, protect
investors and the public interest by
permitting the Exchange to require CHX
participant firms to register certain
associated persons using FINRA’s Web
CRD system, a centralized database used
by the securities exchanges and brokerdealers across the country to track
registration and qualification
information about firms and individuals
who work for those firms. By requiring
use of the Web CRD system, the
Exchange’s regulatory group, as well as
the firms themselves, would be better
able to determine whether a registrant
has met applicable continuing
education requirements. The Exchange
also notes that it would be ensuring that
other regulators can readily find
information about disciplinary actions
taken against CHX-only participants.
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.
10 The Exchange believes that this transition
period is appropriate because each CHX participant
firm that is not already a FINRA member will be
required to enter a new Form U–4 into the Web
CRD for each person associated with the firm that
is required, by CHX rules, to register with the
Exchange. The entry of this information could be
time-consuming for some firms, and the Exchange
believes it is appropriate to give firms an adequate
period of time to complete this task before
mandating the use of the Web CRD system.
11 15 U.S.C. 78(f)(b).
12 15 U.S.C. 78(f)(b)(5).
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C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Comments on the
Proposed Rule Change Received From
Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited
or received.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 35 days of the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register or within such longer period (i)
as the Commission may designate up to
90 days of such date if it finds such
longer period to be appropriate and
publishes its reasons for so finding, or
(ii) as to which the Exchange consents,
the Commission will:
(A) By order approve such proposed
rule change, or
(B) Institute proceedings to determine
whether the proposed rule change
should be 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
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File
Number SR–CHX–2007–21 on the
subject line.
Paper Comments
• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Nancy M. Morris, Secretary,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
Number SR–CHX–2007–21. This file
number should be included on the
subject line if e-mail 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 Web site (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
submission, all subsequent
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
change that are filed with the
Commission, and all written
communications relating to the
proposed rule change between the
Commission and any person, other than
those that may be withheld from the
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public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for inspection and copying in
the Commission’s Public Reference
Room on official business days between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies
of such filing also will be available for
inspection and copying at the principal
office of CHX. All comments received
will be posted without change; the
Commission does not edit personal
identifying information from
submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. All submissions
should refer to File Number SR–CHX–
2007–21 and should be submitted on or
before March 20, 2008.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.13
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Release No. 34–57366; File No. SR–DTC–
2008–01]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; The
Depository Trust Company; Notice of
Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of
a Proposed Rule Change Relating to
Deliver Order Input Cutoff Window
February 21, 2008.
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Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’) 1 notice is hereby given that on
January 10, 2008, The Depository Trust
Company (‘‘DTC’’) 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 primarily by DTC. DTC filed
the proposed rule change pursuant to
Section 19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 2 and
Rule 19b–4(f)(4) thereunder 3 so that the
proposal was effective upon filing with
the Commission. The Commission is
publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change
from interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
DTC will modify its system to provide
its participants with the option of
submitting deliver orders (‘‘DOs’’) from
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)((3)(A)(iii).
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(4).
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II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
In its filing with the Commission,
DTC 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. DTC 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.
Currently, DTC’s system does not
allow participants to submit DOs after
the night cycle input cutoff at 8 p.m.
After the 8 p.m. cutoff, the next input
time for participants to submit DOs is
the day cycle, which begins at 3 a.m.,
the next business day.
DTC is extending the DO input time
frame to 11 p.m. to provide its
participants with additional flexibility
to respond on a more timely basis to
delivery receive orders that they may
have received earlier in the night cycle
and to do so at a reduced cost. DOs
processed during the extended night
cycle will be billed at DTC’s current
night DO fee of $0.12. To take advantage
of the expanded input window,
participants will be required to use a
new format.5
DTC states that the proposed rule
change is consistent with the
requirements of Section 17A of the Act 6
and the rules and regulations
thereunder applicable to DTC as it
allows for more efficient processing of
certain transactions. Therefore, it will
not adversely affect the safeguarding of
funds or securities in DTC’s custody and
control or for which it is responsible.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Burden on Competition
DTC does not believe that the
proposed rule change will have any
impact or impose any burden on
competition.
4 All times referenced in this notice are eastern
standard time.
5 The new format options are outlined in Exhibit
5 of DTC’s rule filing.
6 15 U.S.C. 78q–1.
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C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Comments on the
Proposed Rule Change Received From
Members, Participants, or Others
DTC has not solicited or received
written comments relating to the
proposed rule change. DTC will notify
the Commission of any written
comments it receives.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
The foregoing rule change has become
effective upon filing pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 7 and Rule
19b–4(f)(4) 8 thereunder because the
proposed rule effects a change in an
existing service of DTC that (i) does not
adversely affect the safeguarding of
securities or funds in the custody or
control of DTC or for which it is
responsible and (ii) does not
significantly affect the respective rights
or obligations of DTC or persons using
the DO service. At any time within 60
days of the filing of the proposed rule
change, the Commission may summarily
abrogated 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.
IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:
Electronic Comments
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml) or
• Send an e-mail to rulecomment@sec.gov. Please include File
No. SR–DTC–2008–01 on the subject
line.
Paper Comments
• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Nancy M. Morris, Secretary,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File No.
SR–DTC–2008–01. This file number
should be included on the subject line
if e-mail is used. To help the
Commission process and review your
comments more efficiently, please use
only one method. The Commission will
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-57363; File No.-CHX-2007-21]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc.;
Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change, as Modified by Amendment No.
1, To Amend Rules Relating to Registration Requirements
February 20, 2008.
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 October 9, 2007, the Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc. (``CHX'' 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 substantially prepared by CHX. On
February 14, 2008, CHX filed Amendment No. 1 to the proposed rule
change.\3\ The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments
on the proposed rule change, as amended, from interested persons.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
\3\ Amendment No. 1 replaced and superseded the original filing
in its entirety.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of the
Substance of the Proposed Rule Change
CHX proposes to amend its registration requirements to require CHX
participants to use the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.'s
(``FINRA'') Web Central Registration Depository (``Web CRD'') to
register associated persons who are required to register with the
Exchange under CHX rules. The Exchange would also amend its Fees
Schedule (the ``Fee Schedule'') to include fees that would be charged
in connection with the use of Web CRD. The text of this proposed rule
change is available at CHX, on the Exchange's Web site at https://
www.chx.com, and in 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, CHX 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. CHX 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
FINRA's Web CRD system is a centralized, web-based system used by
securities exchanges and broker-dealers across the country to track
registration and qualification information about firms and the
individuals who work for those firms. The Exchange has entered into an
agreement with FINRA to allow the Exchange's participants to use Web
CRD to register certain of their associated persons. Through this
proposal, the Exchange seeks to amend its registration rules and Fee
Schedule: (a) To require Exchange participants to use Web CRD to
register associated persons who are required to register with the
Exchange under CHX rules; (b) to allow CHX to determine whether
participants should submit fingerprints to CHX or to FINRA for
processing during the registration process; and (c) to adopt new fees
to cover charges assessed by FINRA for its work in processing
fingerprints or the materials submitted through the Web CRD system. CHX
would also delete a provision that requires firms to notify CHX of the
termination of any non-registered, associated person's employment.\4\
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\4\ See Article 6, Rule 2, Interpretations and Policies .03. CHX
believes that this requirement has become somewhat obsolete with
CHX's move to its new trading model (and the elimination of its
physical trading floor), because the requirement had, in effect,
been largely focused on the employment status of clerks working on
the Exchange's trading floor. Because the Exchange no longer has a
physical trading floor, it is no longer as important to learn of the
termination of a clerk's employment with a participant firm.
Moreover, CHX regularly receives an updated list of a firm's
associated persons when it conducts its annual examinations.
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The first part of this proposal would require CHX participants to
use the Web CRD system to register certain of their associated
persons.\5\ Today, CHX participants that are not members of FINRA do
not have access to the Web CRD system for registering their associated
persons. Instead of using this on-line tool, those participants must
handle their registration and continuing education processes manually,
by filing paperwork with CHX. CHX staff must process and store this
paperwork in hard copy form. To alleviate the need for manual
processing and to ensure that other regulatory benefits are
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achieved, the Exchange believes that it is appropriate to require CHX
participants to use Web CRD to register associated persons who are
required to register with the Exchange under CHX rules.\6\ Among other
things, use of the Web CRD system would allow all information relating
to the registration of associated persons to be compiled in one central
repository for access by regulators and broker-dealers and would permit
the automated tracking of a registered person's continuing education
requirements, if any.
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\5\ See Proposed Article 6, Rule 2, Interpretations and Policies
.01.
\6\ Under CHX rules, a variety of persons, including, but not
limited to, officers, partners, principal stockholders, and
directors of a participant firm, must register with the Exchange, as
well as any person acting as an institutional broker representative
or as a market maker trader or any person listed on Schedules A, B
or C of a participant firm's Form BD. See Article 6, Rule 2(b).
These registration rules only apply to participant firms for which
the Exchange is the designated examining authority and to registered
persons of other participant firms where the registered persons act
as institutional broker representatives or market maker traders on
the Exchange. See Article 6, Rule 2, Interpretations and Policies
.04.
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In addition, under this proposal, CHX participants would be
required to submit any required fingerprints to either the Exchange or
to FINRA for processing.\7\ Under the Exchange's current rules, CHX
participants submit fingerprints to the Exchange for processing.\8\
Under the proposal, the Exchange would have the discretion to continue
this process or to require its participants to submit fingerprint cards
to FINRA for processing. The Exchange seeks this flexibility so that it
can determine, from time to time, which fingerprint processing method
is most efficient for the Exchange and for its participants.
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\7\ See Proposed Article 6, Rule 10, Interpretations and
Policies .01.
\8\ When the Exchange receives fingerprints, the Exchange
processes them through the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(``FBI''). The FBI retrieves criminal history information associated
with those fingerprints and returns reports to the Exchange for
review.
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Finally, because FINRA would assess charges to CHX participants for
using the Web CRD system and for processing any fingerprints that are
submitted, the Exchange also seeks to amend its Fee Schedule to include
applicable registration, processing and termination fees, as well as
various fingerprint charges.\9\
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\9\ These charges include an $85 registration fee; a $95
disclosure processing fee; a $30 annual processing fee; and
termination fees of $40 and $80. Fingerprint processing fees would
be $30.25 per card for an initial submission; $13 per card for a
second submission; and $30.25 per card for a third submission. These
fees reflect the charges assessed by FINRA for these services; CHX
is not charging any additional fees of its own.
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The Exchange anticipates that its participants would be able to
begin using Web CRD for registering associated persons in mid-March
2008 and plans to allow its participants to transition to the use of
the Web CRD system over the course of a six to nine-month period.\10\
At the end of this period, CHX participants would be required to use
Web CRD for submitting any registration materials required by CHX
rules.
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\10\ The Exchange believes that this transition period is
appropriate because each CHX participant firm that is not already a
FINRA member will be required to enter a new Form U-4 into the Web
CRD for each person associated with the firm that is required, by
CHX rules, to register with the Exchange. The entry of this
information could be time-consuming for some firms, and the Exchange
believes it is appropriate to give firms an adequate period of time
to complete this task before mandating the use of the Web CRD
system.
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2. Statutory Basis
CHX believes the proposal is consistent with the requirements of
the Act and the rules and regulations thereunder that are applicable to
a national securities exchange, and, in particular, with the
requirements of Section 6(b) of the Act.\11\ The proposed rule change
is consistent with Section 6(b)(5) of the Act \12\ because it would
promote just and equitable principles of trade, remove impediments to,
and perfect the mechanism of, a free and open market and a national
market system, and, in general, protect investors and the public
interest by permitting the Exchange to require CHX participant firms to
register certain associated persons using FINRA's Web CRD system, a
centralized database used by the securities exchanges and broker-
dealers across the country to track registration and qualification
information about firms and individuals who work for those firms. By
requiring use of the Web CRD system, the Exchange's regulatory group,
as well as the firms themselves, would be better able to determine
whether a registrant has met applicable continuing education
requirements. The Exchange also notes that it would be ensuring that
other regulators can readily find information about disciplinary
actions taken against CHX-only participants.
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\11\ 15 U.S.C. 78(f)(b).
\12\ 15 U.S.C. 78(f)(b)(5).
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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.
C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others
No written comments were solicited or received.
III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Within 35 days of the date of publication of this notice in the
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding, or (ii) as to
which the Exchange consents, the Commission will:
(A) By order approve such proposed rule change, or
(B) Institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule
change should be 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
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (https://
www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an e-mail to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-CHX-2007-21 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
Send paper comments in triplicate to Nancy M. Morris,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20549-1090.
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-CHX-2007-21. This file
number should be included on the subject line if e-mail 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 Web site (https://www.sec.gov/rules/
sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all
written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are
filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to
the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other
than those that may be withheld from the
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public in accordance with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for inspection and copying in the Commission's Public
Reference Room on official business days between the hours of 10 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Copies of such filing also will be available for inspection
and copying at the principal office of CHX. All comments received will
be posted without change; the Commission does not edit personal
identifying information from submissions. You should submit only
information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions
should refer to File Number SR-CHX-2007-21 and should be submitted on
or before March 20, 2008.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\13\
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\13\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-3731 Filed 2-27-08; 8:45 am]
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