[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 6, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26991-26994]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09639]



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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-88783; File No. SR-CboeEDGX-2020-017]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc.; Notice 
of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To 
Provide Members Certain Optional Risk Settings Under Proposed 
Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 11.10

April 30, 2020.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(the ``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given 
that on April 23, 2020, Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (the ``Exchange'') 
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the ``Commission'') 
the proposed rule change as described in Items I and II below, which 
Items have been prepared by the Exchange. The Exchange filed the 
proposal as a ``non-controversial'' proposed rule change pursuant to 
Section 19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act \3\ and Rule 19b-4(f)(6) 
thereunder.\4\ 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\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(iii).
    \4\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of the 
Substance of the Proposed Rule Change

    Cboe EDGX Exchange, Inc. (``EDGX'' or the ``Exchange'') proposes to 
provide Members certain optional risk settings under proposed 
Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 11.10. The text of the proposed 
rule change is provided in Exhibit 5.
    The text of the proposed rule change is also available on the 
Exchange's website (http://markets.cboe.com/us/options/regulation/rule_filings/edgx/), at the Exchange's Office of the Secretary, and at 
the Commission's Public Reference Room.

II. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

    In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements 
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and 
discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The 
text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in 
Item IV below. The Exchange 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
    The purpose of the proposed rule change is to provide Members \5\ 
the option to utilize certain risk settings under proposed 
Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 11.10.\6\ In order to help 
Members manage their risk, the Exchange proposes to offer optional risk 
settings that would authorize the Exchange to take automated action if 
a designated limit for a Member is breached. Such risk settings would 
provide Members with enhanced abilities to manage their risk with 
respect to orders on the Exchange. Paragraph (a) of proposed 
Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 11.10 sets forth the specific 
risk controls the Exchange proposes to offer. Specifically, the 
Exchange proposes to offer two credit risk settings as follows:
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    \5\ See Exchange Rule 1.5(n).
    \6\ The proposed rule changes are substantially similar to a 
recent rule amendment by Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. (``BZX''). See 
Securities Exchange Act No. 88599 (April 8, 2020) 85 FR 20793 (April 
14, 2020) (the ``BZX Approval'').
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     The ``Gross Credit Risk Limit'', which refers to a pre-
established maximum daily dollar amount for purchases and sales across 
all symbols, where both purchases and sales are counted as positive 
values. For purposes of calculating the Gross Credit Risk Limit, only 
executed orders are included; and
     The ``Net Credit Risk Limit'', which refers to a pre-
established maximum daily dollar amount for purchases and sales across 
all symbols, where purchases are counted as positive values and sales 
are counted as negative values. For purposes of calculating the Net 
Credit Risk Limit, only executed orders are included.
    The Gross Credit and Net Credit risk settings are similar to credit 
controls measuring both gross and net exposure provided for in 
paragraph (h) of Interpretation and Policy .01 of Rule 11.10, but with 
certain notable differences. Importantly, the proposed risk settings 
would be applied at a Market Participant Identifier (``MPID'') level, 
while the controls noted in paragraph (h) of Interpretation and Policy 
.01 are applied at the logical port level.\7\ Therefore, the proposed 
risk management functionality would allow a Member to manage its risk 
more comprehensively, instead of relying on the more limited port level 
functionality offered today. Further, the proposed risk settings would 
be based on a notional execution value, while the controls noted in 
paragraph (h) of Interpretation and Policy .03 are applied based on a 
combination of outstanding orders on the Exchange's book and notional 
execution value. The Exchange notes that the current gross and net 
notional controls noted in paragraph (h) of Interpretation and Policy 
.03 will continue to be available in addition to the proposed risk 
settings.
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    \7\ A logical port represents a port established by the Exchange 
within the Exchange's System for trading and billing purposes. Each 
logical port established is specific to a Member or non-Member and 
grants that Member or non-Member the ability to accomplish a 
specific function, such as order entry, order cancellation, or data 
receipt.
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    Paragraph (c) of proposed Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 
11.10 provides that a Member that does not self-clear may allocate and 
revoke \8\ the responsibility of establishing and adjusting the risk 
settings identified in proposed paragraph (a) to a Clearing Member that 
clears transactions on behalf of the Member, if designated in a manner 
prescribed by the Exchange. The Exchange proposes to harmonize Exchange 
Rule 11.13(a) with BZX and Cboe BYX Exchange, Inc. (``BYX'') Rules 
11.15(a). Specifically, in proposed Rule 11.13(a), the Exchange 
proposes to (i) define the term ``Clearing Member''; \9\ (ii) 
memorialize in its rules the process by which a Clearing Member shall 
affirm its responsibility for clearing any and all trades executed by 
the Member designating it as its Clearing Firm; and (iii) memorialize 
the fact that the rules of a Qualified Clearing Agency shall govern 
with respect to the clearance and settlement of any transactions 
executed by the Member on the Exchange. While the foregoing proposed 
changes to Rule 11.13(a) were not previously memorialized in Exchange 
Rules, they were contemplated in Exhibit F of the Exchange's original 
Form 1 application.\10\ As such, the proposed changes to Rule 11.13(a) 
involve no substantive changes.
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    \8\ As discussed below, if a Member revokes the responsibility 
of establishing and adjusting the risk settings identified in 
proposed paragraph (a), the settings applied by the Member would be 
applicable.
    \9\ As proposed, the term ``Clearing Member'' refers to a Member 
that is a member of a Qualified Clearing Agency and clears 
transactions on behalf of another Member. See proposed Rule 
11.13(a).
    \10\ Specifically, see item 3 entitled ``Clearing Letter of 
Guarantee'' included in Exhibit F of the Exchange's original Form 1 
application.
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    By way of background, Exchange Rule 11.13(a) requires that all 
transactions passing through the facilities of the

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Exchange shall be cleared and settled through a Qualified Clearing 
Agency using a continuous net settlement system.\11\ As reflected in 
the proposed changes to Rule 11.13(a) above, this requirement may be 
satisfied by direct participation, use of direct clearing services, or 
by entry into a corresponding clearing arrangement with another Member 
that clears through a Qualified Clearing Agency (i.e., a Clearing 
Member). If a Member clears transactions through another Member that is 
a Clearing Member, such Clearing Member shall affirm to the Exchange in 
writing, through letter of authorization, letter of guarantee or other 
agreement acceptable to the Exchange, its agreement to assume 
responsibility for clearing and settling any and all trades executed by 
the Member designating it as its clearing firm.\12\ Thus, while not all 
Members are Clearing Members, all Members are required to either clear 
their own transactions or to have in place a relationship with a 
Clearing Member that has agreed to clear transactions on their behalf 
in order to conduct business on the Exchange. Therefore, the Clearing 
Member that guarantees the Member's transactions on the Exchange has a 
financial interest in the risk settings utilized within the System \13\ 
by the Member.
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    \11\ The term ``Qualified Clearing Agency'' means a clearing 
agency registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 17A of the 
Act that is deemed qualified by the Exchange. See Exchange Rule 
1.5(w). The rules of any such clearing agency shall govern with the 
respect to the clearance and settlement of any transactions executed 
by the Member on the Exchange.
    \12\ A Member can designate one Clearing Member per Market 
Participant Identifier (``MPID'') associated with the Member.
    \13\ System is defined as ``the electronic communications and 
trading facility designated by the Board through which securities 
orders of Members are consolidated for ranking, execution and, when 
applicable, routing away.'' See Exchange Rule 1.5(cc).
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    Paragraph (c) is proposed by the Exchange in order to offer 
Clearing Members an opportunity to manage their risk of clearing on 
behalf of other Members, if authorized to do so by the Member trading 
on the Exchange. Specifically, the Exchange believes such functionality 
would help Clearing Members to better monitor and manage the potential 
risks that they assume when clearing for Members of the Exchange. A 
Member may allocate or revoke the responsibility of establishing and 
adjusting the risk settings identified in proposed paragraph (a) to its 
Clearing Member via the risk management tool available on the web 
portal at any time. By allocating such responsibility, a Member would 
thereby cede all control and ability to establish and adjust such risk 
settings to its Clearing Member unless and until such responsibility is 
revoked by the Member, as discussed in further detail below. Because 
the Member is responsible for its own trading activity, the Exchange 
will not provide a Clearing Member authorization to establish and 
adjust risk settings on behalf of a Member without first receiving 
consent from the Member. The Exchange would consider a Member to have 
provided such consent if it allocates the responsibility to establish 
and adjust risk settings to its Clearing Member via the risk management 
tool available on the web portal. By allocating such responsibilities 
to its Clearing Member, the Member consents to the Exchange taking 
action, as set forth in proposed paragraph (d) of Interpretation and 
Policy .03, with respect to the Member's trading activity. 
Specifically, if the risk setting(s) established by the Clearing Member 
are breached, the Member consents that the Exchange will automatically 
block new orders submitted and cancel open orders until such time that 
the applicable risk setting is adjusted to a higher limit by the 
Clearing Member. A Member may also revoke responsibility allocated to 
its Clearing Member pursuant to this paragraph at any time via the risk 
management tool available on the web portal.
    Paragraph (b) of proposed Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 
11.10 provides that either a Member or its Clearing Member, if 
allocated such responsibility pursuant to paragraph (c) of the proposed 
Interpretation and Policy, may establish and adjust limits for the risk 
settings provided in proposed paragraph (a) of Interpretation and 
Policy .03. A Member or Clearing Member may establish and adjust limits 
for the risk settings through the Exchange's risk management tool 
available on the web portal. The risk management web portal page will 
also provide a view of all applicable limits for each Member, which 
will be made available to the Member and its Clearing Member, as 
discussed in further detail below.
    Proposed paragraph (d) of Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 
11.10 would provide optional alerts to signal when a Member is 
approaching its designated limit. If enabled, the alerts would generate 
when the Member breaches certain percentage thresholds of its 
designated risk limit, as determined by the Exchange. Based on current 
industry standards, the Exchange anticipates initially setting these 
thresholds at fifty, seventy, or ninety percent of the designated risk 
limit. Both the Member and Clearing Member \14\ would have the option 
to enable the alerts via the risk management tool on the web portal and 
designate email recipients of the notification.\15\ The proposed alert 
system is meant to warn a Member and Clearing Member of the Member's 
trading activity, and will have no impact on the Member's order and 
trade activity if a warning percentage is breached. Proposed paragraph 
(e) of Interpretation and Policy .03 of Rule 11.10 would authorize the 
Exchange to automatically block new orders submitted and cancel all 
open orders in the event that a risk setting is breached. The Exchange 
will continue to block new orders submitted until the Member or 
Clearing Member, if allocated such responsibility pursuant to paragraph 
(c) of proposed Interpretation and Policy .03, adjusts the risk 
settings to a higher threshold. The proposed functionality is designed 
to assist Members and Clearing Members in the management of, and risk 
control over, their credit risk. Further, the proposed functionality 
would allow the Member to seamlessly avoid unintended executions that 
exceed their stated risk tolerance.
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    \14\ A Clearing Member would have the ability to enable alerts 
regardless of whether it was allocated responsibilities pursuant to 
proposed paragraph (c).
    \15\ The Member and Clearing Member may input any email address 
for which an alert will be sent via the risk management tool on the 
web portal.
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    The Exchange does not guarantee that the proposed risk settings 
described in proposed Interpretation and Policy .03, are sufficiently 
comprehensive to meet all of a Member's risk management needs. Pursuant 
to Rule 15c3-5 under the Act,\16\ a broker-dealer with market access 
must perform appropriate due diligence to assure that controls are 
reasonably designed to be effective, and otherwise consistent with the 
rule.\17\ Use of the Exchange's risk settings included in proposed 
Interpretation and Policy .03 will not automatically constitute 
compliance with Exchange or federal rules and responsibility for 
compliance with all Exchange and SEC rules remains with the Member.
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    \16\ 17 CFR 240.15c3-5.
    \17\ See Division of Trading and Markets, Responses to 
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Risk Management Controls for 
Brokers or Dealers with Market Access, available at https://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/faq-15c-5-risk-management-controls-bd.htm.
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    Lastly, as the Exchange currently has the authority to share any of 
a Member's risk settings specified in Interpretation and Policy .01 of 
Rule 11.10 under Exchange Rule 11.13(f) with the Clearing Member that 
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the Exchange also seeks such authority as it pertains to risk settings 
specified in proposed Interpretation and Policy .03. Existing Rule 
11.13(f) provides the Exchange with authority to directly provide 
Clearing Members that clear transactions on behalf of a Member, to 
share any of the Member's risk settings set forth under Interpretation 
and Policy .01 to Rule 11.10.\18\ The purpose of such a provision under 
Rule 11.13(f) was implemented in order to reduce the administrative 
burden on participants on the Exchange, including both Clearing Members 
and Members, and to ensure that Clearing Members receive information 
that is up to date and conforms to the settings active in the System. 
Further, the provision was implemented because the Exchange believed 
such functionality would help Clearing Members to better monitor and 
manage the potential risks that they assume when clearing for Members 
of the Exchange. Now, the Exchange also proposes to amend paragraph (f) 
of Exchange Rule 11.13 to authorize the Exchange to share any of a 
Member's risk settings specified in proposed Interpretation and Policy 
.03 to Rule 11.10 with the Clearing Member that clears transactions on 
behalf of the Member and to update the term clearing firm to the 
proposed defined term Clearing Member. The Exchange notes that the use 
by a Member of the risk settings offered by the Exchange is optional. 
By using these proposed optional risk settings, a Member therefore also 
opts-in to the Exchange sharing its designated risk settings with its 
Clearing Member. The Exchange believes that its proposal to offer 
additional risk settings will allow Members to better manage their 
credit risk. Further, by allowing Members to allocate the 
responsibility for establishing and adjusting such risk settings to its 
Clearing Member, the Exchange believes Clearing Members may reduce 
potential risks that they assume when clearing for Members of the 
Exchange. The Exchange also believes that its proposal to share a 
Member's risk settings set forth under proposed Interpretation and 
Policy .03 to Rule 11.10 directly with Clearing Members reduces the 
administrative burden on participants on the Exchange, including both 
Clearing Members and Members, and ensures that Clearing Members are 
receiving information that is up to date and conforms to the settings 
active in the System.
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    \18\ By using the optional risk settings provided in 
Interpretation and Policy .01, a Member opts-in to the Exchange 
sharing its risk settings with its Clearing Member. Any Member that 
does not wish to share such risk settings with its Clearing Member 
can avoid sharing such settings by becoming a Clearing Member. See 
Securities Exchange Act Release No. 80607 (May 5, 2017) 82 FR 22027 
(May 11, 2017) (SR-BatsEDGX-2017-16).
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2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes the proposed rule change is consistent with 
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the ``Act'') and the rules and 
regulations thereunder applicable to the Exchange and, in particular, 
the requirements of Section 6(b) of the Act.\19\ Specifically, the 
Exchange believes the proposed rule change is consistent with the 
Section 6(b)(5) \20\ requirements that the rules of an exchange be 
designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, to 
promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster cooperation 
and coordination with persons engaged in regulating, clearing, 
settling, processing information with respect to, and facilitating 
transactions in securities, to remove impediments to and perfect the 
mechanism of a free and open market and a national market system, and, 
in general, to protect investors and the public interest.
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    \19\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \20\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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    Specifically, the Exchange believes the proposed amendment will 
remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open 
market and a national market system because it provides additional 
functionality for a Member to manage its credit risk. In addition, the 
proposed risk settings could provide Clearing Members, who have assumed 
certain risks of Members, greater control over risk tolerance and 
exposure on behalf of their correspondent Members, if allocated 
responsibility pursuant to proposed paragraph (c), while also providing 
an alert system that would help to ensure that both Members and its 
Clearing Member are aware of developing issues. As such, the Exchange 
believes that the proposed risk settings would provide a means to 
address potentially market-impacting events, helping to ensure the 
proper functioning of the market.
    In addition, the Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is 
designed to protect investors and the public interest because the 
proposed functionality is a form of risk mitigation that will aid 
Members and Clearing Members in minimizing their financial exposure and 
reduce the potential for disruptive, market-wide events. In turn, the 
introduction of such risk management functionality could enhance the 
integrity of trading on the securities markets and help to assure the 
stability of the financial system.
    Further, the Exchange believes that the proposed rule will foster 
cooperation and coordination with persons facilitating transactions in 
securities because the Exchange will provide alerts when a Member's 
trading activity reaches certain thresholds, which will be available to 
both the Member and Clearing Member. As such, the Exchange may help 
Clearing Members monitor the risk levels of correspondent Members and 
provide tools for Clearing Members, if allocated such responsibility, 
to take action.
    The proposal will permit Clearing Members who have a financial 
interest in the risk settings of Members to better monitor and manage 
the potential risks assumed by Clearing Members, thereby providing 
Clearing Members with greater control and flexibility over setting 
their own risk tolerance and exposure. To the extent a Clearing Member 
might reasonably require a Member to provide access to its risk 
settings as a prerequisite to continuing to clear trades on the 
Member's behalf, the Exchange's proposal to share those risk settings 
directly reduces the administrative burden on participants on the 
Exchange, including both Clearing Members and Members. Moreover, 
providing Clearing Members with the ability to see the risk settings 
established for Members for which they clear will foster efficiencies 
in the market and remove impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a 
free and open market and a national market system. The proposal also 
ensures that Clearing Members are receiving information that is up to 
date and conforms to the settings active in the System. The Exchange 
believes that the proposal is consistent with the Act, particularly 
Section 6(b)(5),\21\ because it will foster cooperation and 
coordination with persons engaged in facilitating transactions in 
securities and more generally, will protect investors and the public 
interest, by allowing Clearing Members to better monitor their risk 
exposure and by fostering efficiencies in the market and removing 
impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and 
a national market system.
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    \21\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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    Finally, the Exchange believes that the proposed rule change does 
not unfairly discriminate among the Exchange's Members because use of 
the risk settings is optional and are not a prerequisite for 
participation on the Exchange. The proposed risk settings are 
completely voluntary and, as they relate solely to optional risk 
management functionality, no Member

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is required or under any regulatory obligation to utilize them.
    The proposed amendments to Rule 11.13(a) will harmonize Exchange 
Rules with BZX and BYX Rules 11.15(a). While the proposed changes to 
Rule 11.13(a) were not previously memorialized in Exchange Rules, they 
were contemplated in Exhibit F of the Exchange's original Form 1 
application. As such, the proposed changes to Rule 11.13(a) involve no 
substantive changes.

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 that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. In fact, the Exchange 
believes that the proposal may have a positive effect on competition 
because it would allow the Exchange to offer risk management 
functionality that is comparable to functionality that has been adopted 
by other national securities exchanges.\22\ Further, by providing 
Members and their Clearing Members additional means to monitor and 
control risk, the proposed rule may increase confidence in the proper 
functioning of the markets and contribute to additional competition 
among trading venues and broker-dealers. Rather than impede 
competition, the proposal is designed to facilitate more robust risk 
management by Members and Clearing Members, which, in turn, could 
enhance the integrity of trading on the securities markets and help to 
assure the stability of the financial system.
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    \22\ Supra note 6.
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C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed 
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

    The Exchange neither solicited nor received comments on the 
proposed rule change.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 
Commission Action

    Because the foregoing proposed rule change does not: (i) 
Significantly affect the protection of investors or the public 
interest; (ii) impose any significant burden on competition; and (iii) 
become operative for 30 days from the date on which it was filed, or 
such shorter time as the Commission may designate, it has become 
effective pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Act \23\ and Rule 19b-
4(f)(6) thereunder.\24\
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    \23\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \24\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6). In addition, Rule 19b-4(f)(6)(iii) 
requires a self-regulatory organization to give the Commission 
written notice of its intent to file the proposed rule change, along 
with a brief description and text of the proposed rule change, at 
least five business days prior to the date of filing of the proposed 
rule change, or such shorter time as designated by the Commission. 
The Exchange has satisfied this requirement.
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    A proposed rule change filed pursuant to Rule 19b-4(f)(6) under the 
Act \25\ normally does not become operative for 30 days after the date 
of its filing. However, Rule 19b-4(f)(6)(iii) \26\ permits the 
Commission to designate a shorter time if such action is consistent 
with the protection of investors and the public interest. The Exchange 
has asked the Commission to waive the 30-day operative delay so that 
the Exchange may implement the proposed risk controls on the 
anticipated launch date of April 24, 2020. The Exchange states that 
waiver of the operative delay would allow Members to immediately 
utilize the proposed functionality to manage their risk. For this 
reason, the Commission believes that waiver of the 30-day operative 
delay is consistent with the protection of investors and the public 
interest. Therefore, the Commission hereby waives the operative delay 
and designates the proposal as operative upon filing.\27\
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    \25\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
    \26\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6)(iii).
    \27\ For purposes only of waiving the 30-day operative delay, 
the Commission also 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. If the Commission 
takes such action, the Commission shall institute proceedings to 
determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or 
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 (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an email to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include 
File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2020-017 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-CboeEDGX-2020-017. This 
file number should be included on the subject line if email is used. To 
help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, 
please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on 
the Commission's internet website (http://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 website viewing and printing in 
the Commission's Public Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549 on official business days between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 
3:00 p.m. Copies of such filing also will be available for inspection 
and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. All comments 
received will be posted without change. Persons submitting comments are 
cautioned that we do not redact or edit personal identifying 
information from comment submissions. You should submit only 
information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions 
should refer to File Number SR-CboeEDGX-2020-017, and should be 
submitted on or before May 27, 2020.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\28\
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    \28\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
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