[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6290-6294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02861]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-82650; File No. SR-CBOE-2018-013]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe Exchange, Inc.; Notice of 
Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Related to 
Market Data Fees

February 7, 2018.
    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 January 30, 2018, Cboe Exchange, Inc. (the ``Exchange'' or 
``Cboe'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 
``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, 
and III below, which Items have been prepared by the Exchange. The

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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 Exchange proposes to amend the Cboe Data Services (``CDS'') fee 
schedule to increase the fees for the BBO, Book Depth, and Complex 
Order Book (``COB'') data feeds.
    The text of the proposed rule change is also available on the 
Exchange's website (http://www.cboe.com/About CBOE/
CBOELegalRegulatoryHome.aspx), 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 Exchange proposes to amend the CDS fee schedule to increase the 
fees for the BBO, Book Depth, and COB data feeds.
BBO and Book Depth Data Feed
    The BBO Data Feed is a real-time data feed that includes the 
following information: (i) Outstanding quotes and standing orders at 
the best available price level on each side of the market; (ii) 
executed trades time, size, and price; (iii) totals of customer versus 
non-customer contracts at the best bid and offer (``BBO''); (iv) all-
or-none contingency orders priced better than or equal to the BBO; (v) 
expected opening price and expected opening size; (vi) end-of-day 
summaries by product, including open, high, low, and closing price 
during the trading session; (vi) recap messages any time there is a 
change in the open, high, low or last sale price of a listed option; 
(vii) COB information; and (viii) product IDs and codes for all listed 
options contracts. The quote and last sale data contained in the BBO 
data feed is identical to the data sent to the Options Price Reporting 
Authority (``OPRA'') for redistribution to the public.
    The Book Depth Data Feed is a real-time, low latency data feed that 
includes all data contained in the BBO Data Feed described above plus 
outstanding quotes and standing orders up to the first four price 
levels on each side of the market, with aggregate size (``Book 
Depth'').
    CDS currently charges a Data Fee, payable by a Customer, of $7,000 
per month for internal use and external redistribution of the BBO and/
or Book Depth data feeds.\3\ The Data Fee entitles a Customer to 
provide the BBO and/or the Book Depth data feed to an unlimited number 
of internal users and Devices \4\ within the Customer. A Customer 
receiving the BBO and/or Book Depth data feeds from another Customer is 
assessed the Data Fee by CDS pursuant to its own market data agreement 
with CDS, and is entitled to use the Data internally and/or distribute 
it externally.\5\ All Customers have the same rights to utilize the 
data internally and/or distribute it externally as long as the Customer 
has entered into a written agreement with CDS for the data and pays the 
Data Fee.
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    \3\ A BBO Data Feed ``Customer'' is any person, company or other 
entity that, pursuant to a market data agreement with CDS, is 
entitled to receive data, either directly from CDS or through an 
authorized redistributor (i.e., a Customer or an extranet service 
provider), whether that data is distributed externally or used 
internally. The CDS fee schedule for Exchange data is located at 
https://www.cboe.org/general-info/pdfframed?content=/publish/mdxfees/cboe-cds-fees-schedule-for-cboe-datafeeds.pdf&section=SEC_MDX_CSM&title=Cboe%20CDS%20Fees%20Schedule.

    \4\ A ``Device'' means any computer, workstation or other item 
of equipment, fixed or portable, that receives, accesses and/or 
displays data in visual, audible or other form.
    \5\ A Customer may choose to receive the data from another 
Customer rather than directly from CDS's system because it does not 
want to or is not equipped to manage the technology necessary to 
establish a direct connection to CDS.
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    The Exchange proposes to increase the Data Fee for both the BBO and 
Book Depth data feeds from $7,000 per month to $9,000 per month.\6\ The 
Exchange is not proposing to amend the User Fee for either the BBO or 
Book Depth data feeds. The Data Fee for the Book Depth data feed will 
continue to be waived for Customers who also purchase the companion BBO 
data feed.\7\
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    \6\ The Exchange also proposes to amend the first column of the 
BBO Data Feed fees to identify Cboe as ``Cboe Options'' to be 
consistent with the Depth Book and COB data feed fee descriptions.
    \7\ Such COB Data Feed Customers are still subject to User Fees.
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COB Data Feed
    The COB Data Feed is a real-time data feed that includes data 
regarding the Exchange's Complex Order Book and related complex order 
information. The COB Data Feed contains the following information for 
all Exchange-traded complex order strategies (multi-leg strategies such 
as spreads, straddles and buy-writes): (i) Outstanding quotes and 
standing orders on each side of the market with aggregate size, (ii) 
data with respect to executed trades (``last sale data''), and (iii) 
totals of customer versus non-customer contracts.
    CDS currently charges Customers \8\ of the COB Data Feed a Data Fee 
of $100 per month plus applicable User Fees. The Exchange now proposes 
to increase the Data Fee for the COB data feed from $100 to $3,000 per 
month. The Exchange notes that it had previously charged a Data Fee of 
$3,000 per month for the COB Feed \9\ and later reduced that fee to its 
current rate to incentive further redistribution of the data feed.\10\ 
The Exchange now proposes to return the fee for the COB data feed to 
its original rate to bring the cost of the data feed in line with that 
of similar data feeds offered by other exchanges. The Exchange is not 
proposing to amend the User Fee for either the COB data feed. The Data 
Fee for the COB Data Feed would continue to be waived for Customers of 
the BBO and/or Book Depth data feeds.\11\
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    \8\ A Customer is any person, company or other entity that, 
pursuant to a market data agreement with CDS, is entitled to receive 
data, either directly from CDS or through an authorized 
redistributor (i.e., a Customer or an extranet service provider), 
whether that data is distributed externally or used internally. The 
CDS fee schedule for Exchange data is located at https://www.cboe.org/general-info/pdfframed?content=/publish/mdxfees/cboe-cds-fees-schedule-for-cboe-datafeeds.pdf&section=SEC_MDX_CSM&title=Cboe%20CDS%20Fees%20 
Schedule.
    \9\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 70683 (October 15, 
2013), 78 FR 62798 (October 22, 2013) (SR-CBOE-2013-087).
    \10\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 73955 (December 30, 
2014), 80 FR 598 (January 6, 2015) (SR-CBOE-2014-094).
    \11\ Such COB Data Feed Customers are still subject to User 
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Implementation Date
    The Exchange intends to implement the proposed fees on February 1, 
2018.
2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with the objectives of Section 6 of the Act,\12\ in general, and 
furthers the objectives of Section 6(b)(4),\13\ in particular, as it is 
designed to provide for the equitable allocation of reasonable dues, 
fees and other charges among its members and other recipients of 
Exchange data. The Exchange believes that the proposed

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rates are equitable and non-discriminatory in that they apply uniformly 
to all recipients of Exchange data. The Exchange believes the proposed 
fees are competitive with those charged by other venues and, therefore, 
reasonable and equitably allocated to recipients.
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    \12\ 15 U.S.C. 78f.
    \13\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with Section 11(A) of the Act \14\ in that it supports (i) fair 
competition among brokers and dealers, among exchange markets, and 
between exchange markets and markets other than exchange markets and 
(ii) the availability to brokers, dealers, and investors of information 
with respect to quotations for and transactions in securities. 
Furthermore, the proposed rule change is consistent with Rule 603 of 
Regulation NMS,\15\ which provides that any national securities 
exchange that distributes information with respect to quotations for or 
transactions in an NMS stock do so on terms that are not unreasonably 
discriminatory. In adopting Regulation NMS, the Commission granted 
self-regulatory organizations and broker-dealers increased authority 
and flexibility to offer new and unique market data to the public. It 
was believed that this authority would expand the amount of data 
available to consumers, and also spur innovation and competition for 
the provision of market data.
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    \14\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
    \15\ 17 CFR 242.603.
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    In addition, the proposed fees would not permit unfair 
discrimination because all of the Exchange's customers and market data 
vendors who subscribe to the above data feeds will be subject to the 
proposed fees. The above data feeds are distributed and purchased on a 
voluntary basis, in that neither the Exchange nor market data 
distributors are required by any rule or regulation purchase this data 
or to make this data available. Accordingly, distributors and users can 
discontinue use at any time and for any reason, including due to an 
assessment of the reasonableness of fees charged. Firms have a wide 
variety of alternative market data products from which to choose, such 
as similar proprietary data products offered by other exchanges and 
consolidated data. Moreover, the Exchange is not required to make any 
proprietary data products available or to offer any specific pricing 
alternatives to any customers.
    In addition, the fees that are the subject of this rule filing are 
constrained by competition. As explained below in the Exchange's 
Statement on Burden on Competition, the existence of alternatives to 
the above data feeds further ensure that the Exchange cannot set 
unreasonable fees, or fees that are unreasonably discriminatory, when 
vendors and subscribers can elect such alternatives. That is, the 
Exchange competes with other exchanges (and their affiliates) that 
provide similar market data products. For example, the above data feeds 
provide investors with alternative market data and competes with 
similar market data product currently offered by other exchanges. If 
another exchange (or its affiliate) were to charge less to distribute 
its similar product than the Exchange charges for the above data feeds, 
prospective users likely would not subscribe to, or would cease 
subscribing to either market data product.
    The Exchange notes that the Commission is not required to undertake 
a cost-of-service or rate-making approach. The Exchange believes that, 
even if it were possible as a matter of economic theory, cost-based 
pricing for non-core market data would be so complicated that it could 
not be done practically.\16\
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    \16\ The Exchange believes that cost-based pricing would be 
impractical because it would create enormous administrative burdens 
for all parties, including the Commission, to cost-regulate a large 
number of participants and standardize and analyze extraordinary 
amounts of information, accounts, and reports. In addition, it is 
impossible to regulate market data prices in isolation from prices 
charged by markets for other services that are joint products. Cost-
based rate regulation would also lead to litigation and may distort 
incentives, including those to minimize costs and to innovate, 
leading to further waste. Under cost-based pricing, the Commission 
would be burdened with determining a fair rate of return, and the 
industry could experience frequent rate increases based on 
escalating expense levels. Even in industries historically subject 
to utility regulation, cost-based ratemaking has been discredited. 
As such, the Exchange believes that cost-based ratemaking would be 
inappropriate for proprietary market data and inconsistent with 
Congress's direction that the Commission use its authority to foster 
the development of the national market system, and that market 
forces will continue to provide appropriate pricing discipline. See 
Appendix C to NYSE's comments to the Commission's 2000 Concept 
Release on the Regulation of Market Information Fees and Revenues, 
which can be found on the Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/s72899/buck1.htm. See also Securities 
Exchange Act Release No. 73816 (December 11, 2014), 79 FR 75200 
(December 17, 2014) (SR-NYSE-2014-64) (Notice of Filing and 
Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change to Establish an 
Access Fee for the NYSE Best Quote and Trades Data Feed, Operative 
December 1, 2014).
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BBO Data Feed
    The Exchange believes the proposed increase in the Data Fee for BBO 
data is equitable and not unfairly discriminatory because it would 
apply equally to all Customers. The Exchange believes the proposed Data 
Fee is reasonable because it compares favorably to fees that other 
markets charge for similar products. For example, Nasdaq PHLX LLC 
(``PHLX'') charges Internal Distributors a monthly fee of $4,500 per 
organization and External Distributors a monthly fee of $5,000 per 
organization for its ``TOPO Plus Orders'' data feed, which like the BBO 
Data Feed includes top-of-book data (including orders, quotes and 
trades) and other market data.\17\ Nasdaq ISE, LLC (``ISE'') offers a 
``Top Quote Feed'', which includes top-of-book data, and a separate 
``Spread Feed'', which like the BBO Data Feed includes order and quote 
data for complex strategies. ISE charges distributors of its Top Quote 
Feed a base monthly fee of $3,000 and distributors of its Spread Feed a 
base monthly fee of $3,000 \18\ (totally $6,000 in the aggregate to 
receive the same data as offered by the BBO feed). The Exchange 
believes the proposed rate is reasonable based on the value of the 
market data included in the BBO feed and the market share that the data 
represents. The Exchange also notes that Customers who receive the BBO 
feed may also receive the Book Depth and COB data feeds at no extra 
charge.
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    \17\ See Section IX of the PHLX Pricing Schedule (setting forth 
the fees for proprietary market data).
    \18\ See Sections VIII(h) and (I) of the Nasdaq ISE Schedule of 
Fees.
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Book Depth Data Feed
    The Exchange believes the proposed Data Fee for the Book Depth Data 
Feed is equitable and not unfairly discriminatory because it would 
apply equally to all Customers. The Exchange believes the proposed Data 
Fee is reasonable because it compares favorably to fees that other 
markets charge for similar products. For example, PHLX charges Internal 
Distributors a monthly fee of $4,000 and External Distributors a 
monthly fee of a $4,500 for its Depth data feed that includes full 
depth of quotes and orders and last sale data for options listed on 
PHLX.\19\ In addition, ISE charges a $5,000 per month distributor fee 
for its Real-time Depth of Market data feed.\20\ The Exchange also 
notes that Customers who receive the Book Depth feed may also receive 
the BBO and COB data feeds at no extra charge. The Exchange believes 
the proposed rate is reasonable based on the value of the market data 
included in the BBO feed and the market share that the data represents.
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    \19\ See supra note 17.
    \20\ See Section VIII(f) of the Nasdaq ISE Schedule of Fees.

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COB Data Feed
    The Exchange believes the proposed Data Fee for the COB Data Feed 
is equitable, reasonable, and not unfairly discriminatory because they 
would apply equally to all Customers of the COB Data Feed. The Exchange 
notes that it had previously charged a Data Fee of $3,000 per month for 
the COB Feed \21\ and later reduced that fee to its current rate to 
incentive further redistribution of the data feed.\22\ The Exchange now 
proposes to return the fee for the COB data feed to its original rate 
to bring the cost of the data feed in line with that of similar data 
feeds offered by other exchanges. For example, ISE charges distributors 
of its Spread Feed a base monthly fee of $3,000,\23\ equal to what the 
Exchange proposes to charge for the COB data feed. The Exchange also 
notes that Customers who receive the BBO and Book Depth feeds may also 
receive the COB data feed at no extra charge. The Exchange believes the 
proposed rate is reasonable based on the value of the market data 
included in the COB feed and the market share that the data represents.
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    \21\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 70683 (October 15, 
2013), 78 FR 62798 (October 22, 2013) (SR-CBOE-2013-087).
    \22\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 73955 (December 30, 
2014), 80 FR 598 (January 6, 2015) (SR-CBOE-2014-094).
    \23\ See Sections VIII(I) of the Nasdaq ISE Schedule of Fees.
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B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
result in any burden on competition that is not necessary or 
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act, as amended. The 
Exchange's ability to price the BBO, Book Depth, ad COB data feeds is 
constrained by: (i) Competition among exchanges that compete with each 
other in a variety of dimensions; (ii) the existence of inexpensive 
real-time consolidated data and market-specific data and free delayed 
data; and (iii) the inherent contestability of the market for 
proprietary data.
    An exchange's ability to price its proprietary data feed products 
is constrained by (1) the existence of actual competition for the sale 
of such data, (2) the joint product nature of exchange platforms, and 
(3) the existence of alternatives to proprietary data.
    The Existence of Actual Competition. The Exchange believes 
competition provides an effective constraint on the market data fees 
that the Exchange, through CDS, has the ability and the incentive to 
charge. The Exchange has a compelling need to attract order flow from 
market participants in order to maintain its share of trading volume. 
This compelling need to attract order flow imposes significant pressure 
on the Exchange to act reasonably in setting its fees for market data, 
particularly given that the market participants that will pay such fees 
often will be the same market participants from whom the Exchange must 
attract order flow. These market participants include broker-dealers 
that control the handling of a large volume of customer and proprietary 
order flow. Given the portability of order flow from one exchange to 
another, any exchange that sought to charge unreasonably high data fees 
would risk alienating many of the same customers on whose orders it 
depends for competitive survival. The Exchange currently competes with 
fourteen options exchanges (including its affiliate, C2) for order 
flow.\24\
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    \24\ The Commission has previously made a finding that the 
options industry is subject to significant competitive forces. See 
e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No. 59949 (May 20, 2009), 74 
FR 25593 (May 28, 2009) (SR-ISE-2009-97) (order approving ISE's 
proposal to establish fees for a real-time depth of market data 
offering).
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    In addition, in the case of products that are distributed through 
market data vendors, the market data vendors themselves provide 
additional price discipline for proprietary data products because they 
control the primary means of access to certain end users. These vendors 
impose price discipline based upon their business models. For example, 
vendors that assess a surcharge on data they sell are able to refuse to 
offer proprietary products that their end users do not or will not 
purchase in sufficient numbers. Internet portals, such as Google, 
impose price discipline by providing only data that they believe will 
enable them to attract ``eyeballs'' that contribute to their 
advertising revenue. Similarly, Customers will not offer the BBO, Book 
Depth or COB Data Feeds unless these products will help them maintain 
current users or attract new ones. For example, a broker-dealer will 
not choose to offer the BBO, Book Depth or COB Data Feeds to its retail 
customers unless the broker-dealer believes that the retail customers 
will use and value the data and the provision of such data will help 
the broker-dealer maintain the customer relationship, which allows the 
broker-dealer to generate profits for itself. Professional users will 
not request any of these feeds from Customers unless they can use the 
data for profit-generating purposes in their businesses. All of these 
operate as constraints on pricing proprietary data products.
    Joint Product Nature of Exchange Platform. Transaction execution 
and proprietary data products are complementary in that market data is 
both an input and a byproduct of the execution service. In fact, market 
data and trade executions are a paradigmatic example of joint products 
with joint costs. The decision whether and on which platform to post an 
order will depend on the attributes of the platforms where the order 
can be posted, including the execution fees, data quality, and price 
and distribution of their data products. The more trade executions a 
platform does, the more valuable its market data products become. The 
costs of producing market data include not only the costs of the data 
distribution infrastructure, but also the costs of designing, 
maintaining, and operating the exchange's transaction execution 
platform and the cost of regulating the exchange to ensure its fair 
operation and maintain investor confidence. The total return that a 
trading platform earns reflects the revenues it receives from both 
products and the joint costs it incurs. Moreover, an exchange's broker-
dealer customers view the costs of transaction executions and market 
data as a unified cost of doing business with the exchange.
    Analyzing the cost of market data product production and 
distribution in isolation from the cost of all of the inputs supporting 
the creation of market data and market data products will inevitably 
underestimate the cost of the data and data products. Thus, because it 
is impossible to obtain the data inputs to create market data products 
without a fast, technologically robust, and well-regulated execution 
system, system costs and regulatory costs affect the price of both 
obtaining the market data itself and creating and distributing market 
data products. It would be equally misleading, however, to attribute 
all of an exchange's costs to the market data portion of an exchange's 
joint products. Rather, all of an exchange's costs are incurred for the 
unified purposes of attracting order flow, executing and/or routing 
orders, and generating and selling data about market activity. The 
total return that an exchange earns reflects the revenues it receives 
from the joint products and the total costs of the joint products.
    The level of competition and contestability in the market is 
evident in the numerous alternative venues that compete for order flow, 
including 15 options self-regulatory organization (``SRO'') markets, as 
well as internalizing broker-dealers (``BDs'') and various forms of 
alternative trading systems (``ATSs''), including dark pools

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and electronic communication networks (``ECNs''). Competition among 
trading platforms can be expected to constrain the aggregate return 
that each platform earns from the sale of its joint products, but 
different platforms may choose from a range of possible, and equally 
reasonable, pricing strategies as the means of recovering total costs. 
For example, some platforms may choose to pay rebates to attract 
orders, charge relatively low prices for market data products (or 
provide market data products free of charge), and charge relatively 
high prices for accessing posted liquidity. Other platforms may choose 
a strategy of paying lower rebates (or no rebates) to attract orders, 
setting relatively high prices for market data products, and setting 
relatively low prices for accessing posted liquidity. In this 
environment, there is no economic basis for regulating maximum prices 
for one of the joint products in an industry in which suppliers face 
competitive constraints with regard to the joint offering.
    The Existence of Alternatives. The Exchange is constrained in 
pricing the BBO, Book Depth and COB Data Feeds by the availability to 
market participants of alternatives to purchasing these products. The 
Exchange must consider the extent to which market participants would 
choose one or more alternatives instead of purchasing the exchange's 
data. Other options exchanges can and have produced their own top-of-
book, book depth and complex strategies market data products, and thus 
are sources of potential competition for CDS. For example, as noted 
above, ISE and PHLX offer market data products that compete with the 
BBO, Book Depth and COB Data Feeds. The large number of SROs, BDs, and 
ATSs that currently produce proprietary data or are currently capable 
of producing it provides further pricing discipline for proprietary 
data products. Each SRO, ATS, and BD is currently permitted to produce 
proprietary data products, and many currently do. In addition, the OPRA 
data feed is a significant competitive alternative to the BBO and last 
sale data included in the BBO and Book Depth Data Feeds.
    The existence of numerous alternatives to the Exchange's products, 
including proprietary data from other sources, ensures that the 
Exchange cannot set unreasonable fees, or fees that are unreasonably 
discriminatory, when vendors and subscribers can elect these 
alternatives or choose not to purchase a specific proprietary data 
product if its cost to purchase is not justified by the returns any 
particular vendor or subscriber would achieve through the purchase.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed 
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

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

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 \25\ and paragraph (f) of Rule 19b-4 \26\ 
thereunder. 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 will institute proceedings to 
determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or 
disapproved.
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    \25\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
    \26\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f).
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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 (http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
     Send an email to [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-CBOE-2018-013 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-CBOE-2018-013. 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 the 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-CBOE-2018-013 and should be submitted on 
or before March 6, 2018.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\27\
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    \27\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
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