Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend FINRA Rule 6191 Relating to the Data Collection Requirements of the Regulation NMS Plan To Implement A Tick Size Pilot Program, 63565-63568 [2016-22149]
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.32
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
In its filing with the Commission,
FINRA 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. FINRA has prepared
summaries, set forth in sections A, B,
and C below, of the most significant
aspects of such statements.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations;
Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and
Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed
Rule Change To Amend FINRA Rule
6191 Relating to the Data Collection
Requirements of the Regulation NMS
Plan To Implement A Tick Size Pilot
Program
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September 9, 2016.
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 August
26, 2016, Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc. (‘‘FINRA’’) filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘SEC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) the proposed
rule change as described in Items I, and
II below, which Items have been
prepared by FINRA. FINRA has
designated the proposed rule change as
constituting a ‘‘non-controversial’’ rule
change under paragraph (f)(6) of Rule
19b–4 under the Act,3 which renders
the proposal effective upon receipt of
this filing by the Commission. The
Commission is publishing this notice to
solicit comments on the proposed rule
change from interested persons.
32 17
CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6).
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FINRA is proposing to amend FINRA
Rule 6191 to modify certain data
collection requirements of the
Regulation NMS Plan to Implement a
Tick Size Pilot Program (Plan).
The text of the proposed rule change
is available on FINRA’s Web site at
https://www.finra.org, at the principal
office of FINRA 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
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
1. Purpose
On August 25, 2014, FINRA, and
several other self-regulatory
organizations (the ‘‘Participants’’) filed
with the Commission, pursuant to
Section 11A of the Act 4 and Rule 608
of Regulation NMS thereunder,5 the
Plan to Implement a Tick Size Pilot
Program (the ‘‘Plan’’).6 The Participants
filed the Plan to comply with an order
issued by the Commission on June 24,
2014.7 The Plan was published for
comment in the Federal Register on
November 7, 2014, and approved by the
Commission, as modified, on May 6,
2015.8
The Plan is designed to allow the
Commission, market participants, and
the public to study and assess the
impact of increment conventions on the
liquidity and trading of the common
stock of small-capitalization companies.
Each Participant is required to comply,
and to enforce compliance by its
4 15
U.S.C. 78k–1.
CFR 242.608.
6 See Letter from Brendon J. Weiss, Vice
President, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., to
Secretary, Commission, dated August 25, 2014.
7 See Securities Exchange Act Release No 72460
(June 24, 2014), 79 FR 36840 (June 30, 2014).
8 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 74892
(May 6, 2015), 80 FR 27513 (May 13, 2015)
(‘‘Approval Order’’).
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member organizations, as applicable,
with the provisions of the Plan.
The Plan provides for the creation of
a group of Pilot Securities, which shall
be placed in a control group and three
separate test groups, with each subject
to varying quoting and trading
increments. Pilot Securities in the
control group will be quoted at the
current tick size increment of $0.01 per
share and will trade at the currently
permitted increments. Pilot Securities in
the first test group will be quoted in
$0.05 minimum increments but will
continue to trade at any price increment
that is currently permitted.9 Pilot
Securities in the second test group
(‘‘Test Group Two’’) will be quoted in
$0.05 minimum increments and will
trade at $0.05 minimum increments
subject to a midpoint exception, a retail
investor order exception, and a
negotiated trade exception.10 Pilot
Securities in the third test group (‘‘Test
Group Three’’) will be subject to the
same quoting and trading increments as
Test Group Two, and also will be
subject to the ‘‘Trade-at’’ requirement to
prevent price matching by a market
participant that is not displaying at the
price of a Trading Center’s ‘‘Best
Protected Bid’’ or ‘‘Best Protected
Offer,’’ unless an enumerated exception
applies.11 In addition to the exceptions
provided under Test Group Two, an
exception for Block Size orders and
exceptions that mirror those under Rule
611 of Regulation NMS 12 will apply to
the Trade-at requirement.
The Plan also requires a Trading
Center 13 or a Market Maker 14 to collect
and transmit certain data to its
designated examining authority
(‘‘DEA’’), and requires DEAs to transmit
this data to the Commission.
Participants that operate a Trading
Center also are required under the Plan
to collect certain data, which is then
transmitted directly to the Commission.
With respect to Trading Centers,
Appendix B.I to the Plan (Market
Quality Statistics) requires a Trading
9 See
Section VI(B) of the Plan.
Section VI(C) of the Plan.
11 See Section VI(D) of the Plan.
12 17 CFR 242.611.
13 The Plan incorporates the definition of a
‘‘Trading Center’’ from Rule 600(b)(78) of
Regulation NMS. Regulation NMS defines a
‘‘Trading Center’’ as ‘‘a national securities exchange
or national securities association that operates an
SRO trading facility, an alternative trading system,
an exchange market maker, an OTC market maker,
or any other broker or dealer that executes orders
internally by trading as principal or crossing orders
as agent.’’ See 17 CFR 242.600(b).
14 The Plan defines a Market Maker as ‘‘a dealer
registered with any self-regulatory organization, in
accordance with the rules thereof, as (i) a market
maker or (ii) a liquidity provider with an obligation
to maintain continuous, two-sided trading interest.’’
10 See
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Center to submit to the Participant that
is its DEA a variety of market quality
statistics. Appendix B.II to the Plan
(Market and Marketable Limit Order
Data) requires a Trading Center to
submit information to its DEA relating
to market orders and marketable limit
orders, including the time of order
receipt, order type, the order size, and
the National Best Bid or National Best
Offer (‘‘NBBO’’) quoted price.
With respect to Market Makers,
Appendix B.III requires a Participant
that is a national securities exchange to
collect daily Market Maker Registration
statistics. Appendix B.IV requires a
Participant to collect data related to
Market Maker participation with respect
to each Market Maker engaging in
trading activity on a Trading Center
operated by the Participant. Appendix
C.I requires a Participant to collect data
related to Market Maker profitability
from each Market Maker for which it is
the DEA. Appendix C.II requires the
Participant, as DEA, to aggregate the
Appendix C.I data, and to transmit this
data to the Commission.
The Commission approved the Pilot
on a two-year basis, with
implementation to begin no later than
May 6, 2016.15 On November 6, 2015,
the SEC exempted the Participants from
implementing the pilot until October 3,
2016.16 As set forth in Appendices B
and C to the Plan, data that is reported
pursuant to the appendices shall be
provided for dates starting six months
prior to the Pilot Period through six
months after the end of the Pilot Period.
Under the revised Pilot implementation
date, the Pre-Pilot data collection period
commenced on April 4, 2016.
On November 13, 2015, FINRA filed
with the Commission a proposed rule
change to adopt FINRA Rule 6191(b)
and amend FINRA Rule 7440 to
implement the data collection
requirements of the Plan.17 On
December 9, 2015, FINRA submitted an
exemptive request to the Commission,
seeking an exemption from certain data
collection and reporting requirements
15 See
Approval Order at 27533 and 27545.
Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76382
(November 6, 2015), 80 FR 70284 (November 13,
2015) (File No. 4–657).
17 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76484
(November 19, 2015), 80 FR 73858 (November 25,
2015) (Notice of Filing of File No. SR–FINRA–
2015–048).
FINRA also submitted a proposed rule change to
implement the quoting and trading requirements of
the Plan. See Securities Exchange Act Release No.
76483 (November 19, 2015), 80 FR 73853
(November 25, 2015) (Notice of Filing of File No.
SR–FINRA–2015–047). The Commission approved
that proposal on February 23, 2016. See Securities
Exchange Act Release No. 77218 (February 23,
2016), 81 FR 10290 (February 29, 2016) (Order
Approving File No. SR–FINRA–2015–047).
set forth in the Plan.18 On February 17,
2016, the Commission approved
FINRA’s rule change, as amended, to
implement the data collection
requirements of the Plan, and also
granted exemptive relief from
complying with certain data collection
and reporting requirements in the
Plan.19
FINRA now proposes to further
amend Rule 6191 to modify additional
data collection and reporting
requirements.20 First, Appendix
B.I.a(21) through B.I.a(27) currently
requires that Trading Centers report the
cumulative number of shares of
cancelled orders during a specified
duration of time after receipt of the
order that was cancelled. FINRA and the
other Participants believe that, for
purposes of reporting cancelled orders,
it is appropriate to categorize
unexecuted Immediate or Cancel orders
separately as one bucket irrespective of
the duration of time after order receipt,
i.e., without a time increment, to better
differentiate orders cancelled
subsequent to entry from those where
the customer’s intent prior to order
entry was to cancel the order if no
execution could be immediately
obtained. FINRA, therefore, proposes to
modify Supplementary Material .05 to
provide that unexecuted Immediate or
Cancel orders shall be categorized
separately for purposes of Appendix
B.I.a(21) through B.I.a(27).
The second change relates to the
reporting of daily market quality
statistics pursuant to Appendix B.I.
Currently, Appendix B.I sets forth
categories of orders, including market
orders, marketable limit orders, and
inside-the-quote resting limit orders, for
which daily market quality statistics
must be reported. FINRA and the other
Participants have determined that it is
appropriate to include an order type for
limit orders priced more than $0.10
away from the NBBO for purposes of
Appendix B reporting. FINRA therefore
proposes to amend Supplementary
Material .09 to provide that limit orders
priced more than $0.10 away from the
NBBO shall be included as an order
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18 See Letter from Marcia E. Asquith, Senior Vice
President and Corporate Secretary, FINRA, to
Robert W. Errett, Deputy Secretary, Commission,
dated December 9, 2015 (‘‘Exemptive Request’’).
19 See Securities Exchange Act No. 77164
(February 17, 2016), 81 FR 9043 (February 23, 2016)
(Order Approving File No. SR–FINRA–2015–048);
see letter from David S. Shillman, Associate
Director, Division of Trading and Markets,
Commission, to Marcia E. Asquith, Senior Vice
President and Corporate Secretary, FINRA, dated
February 17, 2016.
20 FINRA notes that, in connection with this
proposed rule change, FINRA intends to file an
exemptive request seeking relief from certain of the
Plan’s data collection requirements.
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type for purposes of Appendix B
reporting, and shall be assigned the
number (22). These orders are not
currently required to be reported
pursuant to Appendix B, and FINRA
and the other Participants believe that
requiring the reporting of such orders
will produce a more comprehensive
data set.
The third change relates to the
reporting of market quality statistics
pursuant to Appendix B.I for a variety
of order types, including inside-thequote resting limit orders (12), at-thequote resting limit orders (13), and nearthe-quote resting limit orders (within
$0.10 of the NBBO) (14). FINRA and the
other Participants believe that it is
appropriate to require Trading Centers
to report all orders that fall within these
categories, and not just those orders that
are ‘‘resting.’’ FINRA, therefore,
proposes to amend Supplementary
Material .09 to make this change.
In the fourth change, FINRA proposes
to add new Supplementary Material .11
to modify the manner in which market
maker participation statistics are
calculated. Currently, Appendix B.IV
provides that market maker
participation statistics shall be
calculated based on share participation,
trade participation, cross-quote share
(trade) participation, inside-the-quote
share (trade) participation, at-the-quote
share (trade) participation, and outsidethe-quote share (trade) participation.
FINRA and the other Participants have
determined that it is appropriate to add
the count of the number of Market
Makers used in the calculation of share
(trade) participation to each category.
FINRA is therefore proposing this
change as part of Supplementary
Material .11. In addition, Appendix
B.IV(b) and (c) currently require that,
when aggregating across Market Makers,
share participation and trade
participation shall be calculated using
the share-weighted average and tradeweighted average, respectively. FINRA
and the other Participants believe that it
is more appropriate to calculate share
and trade participation by providing the
total count of shares or trades, as
applicable, rather than weighted
averages, and FINRA is therefore
proposing this change as part of
Supplementary Material .11.
The fifth change relates to the NBBO
that a Trading Center is required to use
when performing certain quote-related
calculations. When calculating crossquote share (trade) participation
pursuant to Appendix B.IV(d) and
inside-the-quote share (trade)
participation pursuant to Appendix
B.IV(e), the Plan requires the Trading
Center to utilize the NBBO at the time
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of the trade for both share and trade
participation calculations. When
calculating at-the-quote share (trade)
participation and outside-the-quote
share (trade) participation pursuant to
Appendix B.IV(f) and (g), the Plan
allows the Trading Center to utilize the
NBBO at the time of or immediately
before the trade for both share and trade
participation calculations. FINRA and
the other Participants believe that it is
appropriate to calculate all quote
participation (cross-quote share (trade)
participation, inside-the-quote share
(trade) participation, at-the-quote share
(trade) participation and outside-thequote share (trade) participation) solely
by reference to the NBBO in effect
immediately prior to the trade. FINRA
therefore proposes to make this change
as part of Supplementary Material .11.
Finally, FINRA proposes to change
the end date until which the Pre-Pilot
Data Collection Securities shall be used
to fulfill the Plan’s data collection
requirements. Currently, Supplementary
Material .13 provides that Pre-Pilot Data
Collection Securities are the securities
designated by the Participants for
purposes of the data collection
requirements described in Items I, II and
IV of Appendix B and Item I of
Appendix C to the Plan for the period
beginning six months prior to the Pilot
Period and ending on the trading day
immediately preceding the Pilot Period.
FINRA and the other Participants
believe that it is appropriate to use the
Pilot Securities to satisfy the Plan’s data
collection requirements prior to the
commencement of the Pilot. According,
FINRA is revising Supplementary
Material .13 (which will be re-numbered
as Supplementary Material .14) to
provide that the Pre-Pilot Data
Collection Securities shall be used to
satisfy the Plan’s data collection
requirements through thirty-one days
prior to the Pilot Period, after which
time the Pilot Securities shall be used
for purposes of the data collection
requirements.21
21 After regular trading hours on September 2,
2016, the national securities exchanges will
establish which securities will be included as Pilot
Securities for purposes of the Plan. FINRA and the
other Participants have determined that members
should use the Pilot Securities list for data
collection purposes once it becomes available.
Thus, the proposed rule change requires that,
beginning thirty days prior to the first day of the
Pilot Period—i.e., September 3, 2016—FINRA and
FINRA members will comply with the data
collection obligations of the Plan by collecting data
on the Pilot Securities. As a result, beginning on
September 3, 2016, members must migrate from
using FINRA’s published Pre-Pilot Data Collection
Security list and begin using the Pilot Securities
list. September 2, 2016 will be the last day that
members use the Pre-Pilot Data Collection Security
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FINRA has filed the proposed rule
change for immediate effectiveness.
FINRA has requested that the SEC waive
the 30-day operative period so that the
proposed rule change can become
operative on August 30, 2016.
2. Statutory Basis
FINRA believes that the proposed rule
change is consistent with the provisions
of Section 15A(b)(6) of the Act,22 which
requires, among other things, that
FINRA rules must be designed to
prevent fraudulent and manipulative
acts and practices, to promote just and
equitable principles of trade, and, in
general, to protect investors and the
public interest, and Section 15A(b)(9) of
the Act,23 which requires that FINRA
rules not impose any burden on
competition that is not necessary or
appropriate.
FINRA believes that this proposal is
consistent with the Act because it
implements and clarifies the provisions
of the Plan, and is designed to assist
FINRA in meeting its regulatory
obligations pursuant to the Plan. In
approving the Plan, the SEC noted that
the Pilot was an appropriate, datadriven test that was designed to evaluate
the impact of a wider tick size on
trading, liquidity, and the market
quality of securities of smaller
capitalization companies, and was
therefore in furtherance of the purposes
of the Act. FINRA believes that this
proposal is in furtherance of the
objectives of the Plan, as identified by
the SEC, and is therefore consistent with
the Act because the proposal
implements and clarifies the
requirements of the Plan.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Burden on Competition
FINRA notes that the proposed rule
change implements the provisions of the
Plan, and is designed to assist FINRA in
meeting its regulatory obligations
pursuant to the Plan. FINRA also notes
that, other than the change to require
use of the Pilot Securities beginning
thirty days prior to the beginning of the
Pilot Period, the proposed changes will
not affect the data collection and
reporting requirements for members that
operate Trading Centers; the proposed
changes will only affect how FINRA and
Participants that operate Trading
Centers collect and report data. FINRA
notes that, with respect to the change to
require the use of the Pilot Securities
beginning thirty days prior to the start
of the Pilot Period, the proposed change
reduces the number of securities on
which affected members otherwise
would have been required to collect
data pursuant to the Plan and FINRA
Rule 6191. In addition, the proposed
rule change applies equally to all
similarly situated members. Therefore,
FINRA 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.
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 24 and Rule 19b–4(f)(6) 25
thereunder because the proposal does
not: (i) Significantly affect the
protection of investors or the public
interest; (ii) impose any significant
burden on competition; and (iii) by its
terms, become operative for 30 days
from the date on which it was filed, or
such shorter time as the Commission
may designate if consistent with the
protection of investors and the public
interest.
A proposed rule change filed under
Rule 19b–4(f)(6) 26 normally does not
become operative prior to 30 days after
the date of the filing. However, pursuant
to Rule 19b–4(f)(6)(iii),27 the
Commission may designate a shorter
time if such action is consistent with the
protection of investors and the public
interest. FINRA has asked the
Commission to waive the 30-day
operative delay so that so that the
proposed rule change can become
operative on August 30, 2016.
The Commission believes that
waiving the 30-day operative delay is
consistent with the protection of
investors and the public interest
because it will allow FINRA to
implement the proposed rules
immediately thereby preventing delays
in the implementation of the Plan. The
Commission notes that the Plan is
scheduled to start on October 3, 2016.
Therefore, the Commission hereby
waives the 30-day operative delay and
designates the proposed rule change to
24 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6).
26 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6).
27 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6)(iii).
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be operative upon filing with the
Commission.28
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.29
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:
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Electronic Comments
• Use the Commission’s Internet
comment form (https://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an email to rule-comments@
sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–
FINRA–2016–035 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
• 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–FINRA–2016–035. 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 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
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for Web site 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 such filing
also will be available for inspection and
copying at the principal office of
28 For purposes only of waiving the operative
delay for this proposal, the Commission has
considered the proposed rule’s impact on
efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See
15 U.S.C. 78c(f).
29 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(C).
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FINRA. 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–FINRA–2016–035 and
should be submitted on or before
October 6, 2016.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.30
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Disaster Declaration #14837 and #14838]
California Disaster #CA–00254
U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This is a notice of an
Administrative declaration of a disaster
for the State of California dated 09/06/
2016.
Incident: Clayton Fire.
Incident Period: 08/13/2016 through
08/26/2016.
Effective Date: 09/06/2016.
Physical Loan Application Deadline
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Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
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409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050,
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
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applications for disaster loans may be
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The following areas have been
determined to be adversely affected by
the disaster:
Primary Counties: Lake
Contiguous Counties:
California: Colusa, Glenn, Mendocino,
Napa, Sonoma, Yolo
The Interest Rates are:
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Percent
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners With Credit Available Elsewhere ......................
Homeowners Without Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Businesses With Credit Available Elsewhere ......................
Businesses
Without
Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Non-Profit Organizations With
Credit Available Elsewhere ...
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
For Economic Injury:
Businesses & Small Agricultural
Cooperatives Without Credit
Available Elsewhere ..............
Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
3.125
1.563
6.250
4.000
2.625
2.625
4.000
2.625
The number assigned to this disaster
for physical damage is 148375 and for
economic injury is 148380.
The State which received an EIDL
Declaration # is California.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 59008)
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-78800; File No. SR-FINRA-2016-035]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a
Proposed Rule Change To Amend FINRA Rule 6191 Relating to the Data
Collection Requirements of the Regulation NMS Plan To Implement A Tick
Size Pilot Program
September 9, 2016.
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 August 26, 2016, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
(``FINRA'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC''
or ``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I,
and II below, which Items have been prepared by FINRA. FINRA has
designated the proposed rule change as constituting a ``non-
controversial'' rule change under paragraph (f)(6) of Rule 19b-4 under
the Act,\3\ which renders the proposal effective upon receipt of this
filing by the Commission. The Commission is publishing this notice to
solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
\2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
\3\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
FINRA is proposing to amend FINRA Rule 6191 to modify certain data
collection requirements of the Regulation NMS Plan to Implement a Tick
Size Pilot Program (Plan).
The text of the proposed rule change is available on FINRA's Web
site at https://www.finra.org, at the principal office of FINRA 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, FINRA 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. FINRA 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
On August 25, 2014, FINRA, and several other self-regulatory
organizations (the ``Participants'') filed with the Commission,
pursuant to Section 11A of the Act \4\ and Rule 608 of Regulation NMS
thereunder,\5\ the Plan to Implement a Tick Size Pilot Program (the
``Plan'').\6\ The Participants filed the Plan to comply with an order
issued by the Commission on June 24, 2014.\7\ The Plan was published
for comment in the Federal Register on November 7, 2014, and approved
by the Commission, as modified, on May 6, 2015.\8\
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\4\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
\5\ 17 CFR 242.608.
\6\ See Letter from Brendon J. Weiss, Vice President,
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., to Secretary, Commission, dated
August 25, 2014.
\7\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No 72460 (June 24,
2014), 79 FR 36840 (June 30, 2014).
\8\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 74892 (May 6, 2015),
80 FR 27513 (May 13, 2015) (``Approval Order'').
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The Plan is designed to allow the Commission, market participants,
and the public to study and assess the impact of increment conventions
on the liquidity and trading of the common stock of small-
capitalization companies. Each Participant is required to comply, and
to enforce compliance by its member organizations, as applicable, with
the provisions of the Plan.
The Plan provides for the creation of a group of Pilot Securities,
which shall be placed in a control group and three separate test
groups, with each subject to varying quoting and trading increments.
Pilot Securities in the control group will be quoted at the current
tick size increment of $0.01 per share and will trade at the currently
permitted increments. Pilot Securities in the first test group will be
quoted in $0.05 minimum increments but will continue to trade at any
price increment that is currently permitted.\9\ Pilot Securities in the
second test group (``Test Group Two'') will be quoted in $0.05 minimum
increments and will trade at $0.05 minimum increments subject to a
midpoint exception, a retail investor order exception, and a negotiated
trade exception.\10\ Pilot Securities in the third test group (``Test
Group Three'') will be subject to the same quoting and trading
increments as Test Group Two, and also will be subject to the ``Trade-
at'' requirement to prevent price matching by a market participant that
is not displaying at the price of a Trading Center's ``Best Protected
Bid'' or ``Best Protected Offer,'' unless an enumerated exception
applies.\11\ In addition to the exceptions provided under Test Group
Two, an exception for Block Size orders and exceptions that mirror
those under Rule 611 of Regulation NMS \12\ will apply to the Trade-at
requirement.
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\9\ See Section VI(B) of the Plan.
\10\ See Section VI(C) of the Plan.
\11\ See Section VI(D) of the Plan.
\12\ 17 CFR 242.611.
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The Plan also requires a Trading Center \13\ or a Market Maker \14\
to collect and transmit certain data to its designated examining
authority (``DEA''), and requires DEAs to transmit this data to the
Commission. Participants that operate a Trading Center also are
required under the Plan to collect certain data, which is then
transmitted directly to the Commission. With respect to Trading
Centers, Appendix B.I to the Plan (Market Quality Statistics) requires
a Trading
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Center to submit to the Participant that is its DEA a variety of market
quality statistics. Appendix B.II to the Plan (Market and Marketable
Limit Order Data) requires a Trading Center to submit information to
its DEA relating to market orders and marketable limit orders,
including the time of order receipt, order type, the order size, and
the National Best Bid or National Best Offer (``NBBO'') quoted price.
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\13\ The Plan incorporates the definition of a ``Trading
Center'' from Rule 600(b)(78) of Regulation NMS. Regulation NMS
defines a ``Trading Center'' as ``a national securities exchange or
national securities association that operates an SRO trading
facility, an alternative trading system, an exchange market maker,
an OTC market maker, or any other broker or dealer that executes
orders internally by trading as principal or crossing orders as
agent.'' See 17 CFR 242.600(b).
\14\ The Plan defines a Market Maker as ``a dealer registered
with any self-regulatory organization, in accordance with the rules
thereof, as (i) a market maker or (ii) a liquidity provider with an
obligation to maintain continuous, two-sided trading interest.''
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With respect to Market Makers, Appendix B.III requires a
Participant that is a national securities exchange to collect daily
Market Maker Registration statistics. Appendix B.IV requires a
Participant to collect data related to Market Maker participation with
respect to each Market Maker engaging in trading activity on a Trading
Center operated by the Participant. Appendix C.I requires a Participant
to collect data related to Market Maker profitability from each Market
Maker for which it is the DEA. Appendix C.II requires the Participant,
as DEA, to aggregate the Appendix C.I data, and to transmit this data
to the Commission.
The Commission approved the Pilot on a two-year basis, with
implementation to begin no later than May 6, 2016.\15\ On November 6,
2015, the SEC exempted the Participants from implementing the pilot
until October 3, 2016.\16\ As set forth in Appendices B and C to the
Plan, data that is reported pursuant to the appendices shall be
provided for dates starting six months prior to the Pilot Period
through six months after the end of the Pilot Period. Under the revised
Pilot implementation date, the Pre-Pilot data collection period
commenced on April 4, 2016.
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\15\ See Approval Order at 27533 and 27545.
\16\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76382 (November 6,
2015), 80 FR 70284 (November 13, 2015) (File No. 4-657).
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On November 13, 2015, FINRA filed with the Commission a proposed
rule change to adopt FINRA Rule 6191(b) and amend FINRA Rule 7440 to
implement the data collection requirements of the Plan.\17\ On December
9, 2015, FINRA submitted an exemptive request to the Commission,
seeking an exemption from certain data collection and reporting
requirements set forth in the Plan.\18\ On February 17, 2016, the
Commission approved FINRA's rule change, as amended, to implement the
data collection requirements of the Plan, and also granted exemptive
relief from complying with certain data collection and reporting
requirements in the Plan.\19\
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\17\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 76484 (November 19,
2015), 80 FR 73858 (November 25, 2015) (Notice of Filing of File No.
SR-FINRA-2015-048).
FINRA also submitted a proposed rule change to implement the
quoting and trading requirements of the Plan. See Securities
Exchange Act Release No. 76483 (November 19, 2015), 80 FR 73853
(November 25, 2015) (Notice of Filing of File No. SR-FINRA-2015-
047). The Commission approved that proposal on February 23, 2016.
See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 77218 (February 23, 2016),
81 FR 10290 (February 29, 2016) (Order Approving File No. SR-FINRA-
2015-047).
\18\ See Letter from Marcia E. Asquith, Senior Vice President
and Corporate Secretary, FINRA, to Robert W. Errett, Deputy
Secretary, Commission, dated December 9, 2015 (``Exemptive
Request'').
\19\ See Securities Exchange Act No. 77164 (February 17, 2016),
81 FR 9043 (February 23, 2016) (Order Approving File No. SR-FINRA-
2015-048); see letter from David S. Shillman, Associate Director,
Division of Trading and Markets, Commission, to Marcia E. Asquith,
Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, FINRA, dated February
17, 2016.
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FINRA now proposes to further amend Rule 6191 to modify additional
data collection and reporting requirements.\20\ First, Appendix
B.I.a(21) through B.I.a(27) currently requires that Trading Centers
report the cumulative number of shares of cancelled orders during a
specified duration of time after receipt of the order that was
cancelled. FINRA and the other Participants believe that, for purposes
of reporting cancelled orders, it is appropriate to categorize
unexecuted Immediate or Cancel orders separately as one bucket
irrespective of the duration of time after order receipt, i.e., without
a time increment, to better differentiate orders cancelled subsequent
to entry from those where the customer's intent prior to order entry
was to cancel the order if no execution could be immediately obtained.
FINRA, therefore, proposes to modify Supplementary Material .05 to
provide that unexecuted Immediate or Cancel orders shall be categorized
separately for purposes of Appendix B.I.a(21) through B.I.a(27).
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\20\ FINRA notes that, in connection with this proposed rule
change, FINRA intends to file an exemptive request seeking relief
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The second change relates to the reporting of daily market quality
statistics pursuant to Appendix B.I. Currently, Appendix B.I sets forth
categories of orders, including market orders, marketable limit orders,
and inside-the-quote resting limit orders, for which daily market
quality statistics must be reported. FINRA and the other Participants
have determined that it is appropriate to include an order type for
limit orders priced more than $0.10 away from the NBBO for purposes of
Appendix B reporting. FINRA therefore proposes to amend Supplementary
Material .09 to provide that limit orders priced more than $0.10 away
from the NBBO shall be included as an order type for purposes of
Appendix B reporting, and shall be assigned the number (22). These
orders are not currently required to be reported pursuant to Appendix
B, and FINRA and the other Participants believe that requiring the
reporting of such orders will produce a more comprehensive data set.
The third change relates to the reporting of market quality
statistics pursuant to Appendix B.I for a variety of order types,
including inside-the-quote resting limit orders (12), at-the-quote
resting limit orders (13), and near-the-quote resting limit orders
(within $0.10 of the NBBO) (14). FINRA and the other Participants
believe that it is appropriate to require Trading Centers to report all
orders that fall within these categories, and not just those orders
that are ``resting.'' FINRA, therefore, proposes to amend Supplementary
Material .09 to make this change.
In the fourth change, FINRA proposes to add new Supplementary
Material .11 to modify the manner in which market maker participation
statistics are calculated. Currently, Appendix B.IV provides that
market maker participation statistics shall be calculated based on
share participation, trade participation, cross-quote share (trade)
participation, inside-the-quote share (trade) participation, at-the-
quote share (trade) participation, and outside-the-quote share (trade)
participation. FINRA and the other Participants have determined that it
is appropriate to add the count of the number of Market Makers used in
the calculation of share (trade) participation to each category. FINRA
is therefore proposing this change as part of Supplementary Material
.11. In addition, Appendix B.IV(b) and (c) currently require that, when
aggregating across Market Makers, share participation and trade
participation shall be calculated using the share-weighted average and
trade-weighted average, respectively. FINRA and the other Participants
believe that it is more appropriate to calculate share and trade
participation by providing the total count of shares or trades, as
applicable, rather than weighted averages, and FINRA is therefore
proposing this change as part of Supplementary Material .11.
The fifth change relates to the NBBO that a Trading Center is
required to use when performing certain quote-related calculations.
When calculating cross-quote share (trade) participation pursuant to
Appendix B.IV(d) and inside-the-quote share (trade) participation
pursuant to Appendix B.IV(e), the Plan requires the Trading Center to
utilize the NBBO at the time
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of the trade for both share and trade participation calculations. When
calculating at-the-quote share (trade) participation and outside-the-
quote share (trade) participation pursuant to Appendix B.IV(f) and (g),
the Plan allows the Trading Center to utilize the NBBO at the time of
or immediately before the trade for both share and trade participation
calculations. FINRA and the other Participants believe that it is
appropriate to calculate all quote participation (cross-quote share
(trade) participation, inside-the-quote share (trade) participation,
at-the-quote share (trade) participation and outside-the-quote share
(trade) participation) solely by reference to the NBBO in effect
immediately prior to the trade. FINRA therefore proposes to make this
change as part of Supplementary Material .11.
Finally, FINRA proposes to change the end date until which the Pre-
Pilot Data Collection Securities shall be used to fulfill the Plan's
data collection requirements. Currently, Supplementary Material .13
provides that Pre-Pilot Data Collection Securities are the securities
designated by the Participants for purposes of the data collection
requirements described in Items I, II and IV of Appendix B and Item I
of Appendix C to the Plan for the period beginning six months prior to
the Pilot Period and ending on the trading day immediately preceding
the Pilot Period. FINRA and the other Participants believe that it is
appropriate to use the Pilot Securities to satisfy the Plan's data
collection requirements prior to the commencement of the Pilot.
According, FINRA is revising Supplementary Material .13 (which will be
re-numbered as Supplementary Material .14) to provide that the Pre-
Pilot Data Collection Securities shall be used to satisfy the Plan's
data collection requirements through thirty-one days prior to the Pilot
Period, after which time the Pilot Securities shall be used for
purposes of the data collection requirements.\21\
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\21\ After regular trading hours on September 2, 2016, the
national securities exchanges will establish which securities will
be included as Pilot Securities for purposes of the Plan. FINRA and
the other Participants have determined that members should use the
Pilot Securities list for data collection purposes once it becomes
available. Thus, the proposed rule change requires that, beginning
thirty days prior to the first day of the Pilot Period--i.e.,
September 3, 2016--FINRA and FINRA members will comply with the data
collection obligations of the Plan by collecting data on the Pilot
Securities. As a result, beginning on September 3, 2016, members
must migrate from using FINRA's published Pre-Pilot Data Collection
Security list and begin using the Pilot Securities list. September
2, 2016 will be the last day that members use the Pre-Pilot Data
Collection Security list.
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FINRA has filed the proposed rule change for immediate
effectiveness. FINRA has requested that the SEC waive the 30-day
operative period so that the proposed rule change can become operative
on August 30, 2016.
2. Statutory Basis
FINRA believes that the proposed rule change is consistent with the
provisions of Section 15A(b)(6) of the Act,\22\ which requires, among
other things, that FINRA rules must be designed to prevent fraudulent
and manipulative acts and practices, to promote just and equitable
principles of trade, and, in general, to protect investors and the
public interest, and Section 15A(b)(9) of the Act,\23\ which requires
that FINRA rules not impose any burden on competition that is not
necessary or appropriate.
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\22\ 15 U.S.C. 78o-3(b)(6).
\23\ 15 U.S.C. 78o-3(b)(9).
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FINRA believes that this proposal is consistent with the Act
because it implements and clarifies the provisions of the Plan, and is
designed to assist FINRA in meeting its regulatory obligations pursuant
to the Plan. In approving the Plan, the SEC noted that the Pilot was an
appropriate, data-driven test that was designed to evaluate the impact
of a wider tick size on trading, liquidity, and the market quality of
securities of smaller capitalization companies, and was therefore in
furtherance of the purposes of the Act. FINRA believes that this
proposal is in furtherance of the objectives of the Plan, as identified
by the SEC, and is therefore consistent with the Act because the
proposal implements and clarifies the requirements of the Plan.
B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition
FINRA notes that the proposed rule change implements the provisions
of the Plan, and is designed to assist FINRA in meeting its regulatory
obligations pursuant to the Plan. FINRA also notes that, other than the
change to require use of the Pilot Securities beginning thirty days
prior to the beginning of the Pilot Period, the proposed changes will
not affect the data collection and reporting requirements for members
that operate Trading Centers; the proposed changes will only affect how
FINRA and Participants that operate Trading Centers collect and report
data. FINRA notes that, with respect to the change to require the use
of the Pilot Securities beginning thirty days prior to the start of the
Pilot Period, the proposed change reduces the number of securities on
which affected members otherwise would have been required to collect
data pursuant to the Plan and FINRA Rule 6191. In addition, the
proposed rule change applies equally to all similarly situated members.
Therefore, FINRA 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.
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 \24\ and Rule 19b-4(f)(6) \25\ thereunder
because the proposal does not: (i) Significantly affect the protection
of investors or the public interest; (ii) impose any significant burden
on competition; and (iii) by its terms, become operative for 30 days
from the date on which it was filed, or such shorter time as the
Commission may designate if consistent with the protection of investors
and the public interest.
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\24\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
\25\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
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A proposed rule change filed under Rule 19b-4(f)(6) \26\ normally
does not become operative prior to 30 days after the date of the
filing. However, pursuant to Rule 19b-4(f)(6)(iii),\27\ the Commission
may designate a shorter time if such action is consistent with the
protection of investors and the public interest. FINRA has asked the
Commission to waive the 30-day operative delay so that so that the
proposed rule change can become operative on August 30, 2016.
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\26\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
\27\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6)(iii).
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The Commission believes that waiving the 30-day operative delay is
consistent with the protection of investors and the public interest
because it will allow FINRA to implement the proposed rules immediately
thereby preventing delays in the implementation of the Plan. The
Commission notes that the Plan is scheduled to start on October 3,
2016. Therefore, the Commission hereby waives the 30-day operative
delay and designates the proposed rule change to
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be operative upon filing with the Commission.\28\
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\28\ For purposes only of waiving the operative delay for this
proposal, the Commission has considered the proposed rule's impact
on efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See 15 U.S.C.
78c(f).
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At any time within 60 days of the filing of the proposed rule
change, the Commission summarily may temporarily suspend such rule
change if it appears to the Commission that such action is necessary or
appropriate in the public interest, for the protection of investors, or
otherwise in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.\29\
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\29\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(C).
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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
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an email to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-FINRA-2016-035 on the subject line.
Paper Comments
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-FINRA-2016-035. 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 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 public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for Web site 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 such filing also will be available for
inspection and copying at the principal office of FINRA. 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-FINRA-2016-035 and should be
submitted on or before October 6, 2016.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\30\
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\30\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
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