[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46565-46566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-4311]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-52201; File No. SR-SCCP-2004-03]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; Stock Clearing Corporation of 
Philadelphia; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change by Relating 
Anonymous Features on Trading Systems

August 3, 2005.
    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 September 7, 2004, Stock Clearing Corporation of Philadelphia 
(``SCCP``) 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 by SCCP. 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.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance 
of the Proposed Rule Change

    The proposed rule change would allow SCCP to processes trades 
executed on a trading system that provides for anonymous trading.\3\
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    \3\ The proposed rule change is similar to a rule change 
approved by the Commission in 2003 that allowed the National 
Securities Clearing Corporation (``NSCC'') to accommodate the 
reporting of trades executed on a system that provides trading 
anonymity. Securities Exchange Act Release No. 48526 (September 23, 
2003), 68 FR 56367 (September 30, 2003) [File No. SR-NSCC-2003-14].
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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, SCCP 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. SCCP 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, SCCP receives and processes its participants' trades. In 
the future, SCCP may receive locked-in trade data from a trading system 
that provides anonymity. In such a situation, SCCP would report such 
trades to its participants using an anonymous acronym instead of naming 
or identifying the actual contra side account number.
    In the event that SCCP ceases to act for a participant in an 
anonymous trade, the operator of the trading system shall have the 
responsibility to identify to its users the trades, which are generally 
included in reports produced by SCCP, involving the affected 
participant. SCCP would forward to the operator of the trading system 
the appropriate information to facilitate its notification of its 
users. In addition, should SCCP receive information from NSCC that NSCC 
had ceased to act for an NSCC member that is an unidentified contra 
side of any such trade, SCCP would also forward this information to the 
operator of the trading system.\4\
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    \4\ NSCC's anonymous trading rule includes similar notification 
requirements.
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    SCCP believes that its proposed rule change is consistent with the 
requirements of section 17A(b)(3)(F) of the Act because it is designed 
to promote the prompt and accurate clearance and settlement of 
securities transactions and to remove impediments to and perfect the 
mechanism of a national system for the prompt and accurate clearance 
and settlement of securities transactions in that the proposed rule 
change should allow SCCP to accommodate trades executed on an anonymous 
trading system and should provide for the prompt and accurate clearance 
of those trades.

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

    SCCP does not believe that the proposed rule change will impose any 
inappropriate 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 either solicited or received.

III. 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

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     Send an e-mail to [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-SCCP-2004-03 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Jonathan G. Katz, 
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20549-9303.
    All submissions should refer to File Number SR-SCCP-2004-03. 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 (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 inspection 
and copying in the Commission's Public Reference Section, 100 F Street, 
NE., Washington, DC 20549-9303. Copies of such filing also will be 
available for inspection and copying at the principal office of SCCP 
and on SCCP's Web site at http://www.phlx.com/SCCP. 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-SCCP-2004-03 and should be 
submitted on or before August 31, 2005.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\5\
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    \5\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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J. Lynn Taylor,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-4311 Filed 8-9-05; 8:45 am]
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