Wall Street Letter VOL. XLVI, NO. 7 - July 2014 | Page 17

JULY 2014 NAME OF EXCHANGE SUMMARY OF CHANGE New York Stock Exchange NYSE Amex EFFECTIVE DATE NEW FEE CHANGED FROM Eliminates equity per share rebate for some nonFloor Broker transactions N/A $0.0019 per share rebate/$0.0015 per share rebate if an MPL order/or the Tier 1 adding credit for qualifying member organizations for all non-Floor broker transactions that add liquidity to the NYSE as long as the member organization executes an ADV during the billing month of at least 1 million shares in retail price improvement orders and a Customer electronic adding ADV during the billing month of at least 5 million shares June 1 Amends volume requirements for $0.06 per contract rebate if OFP has electronic Customer volume of at least 2% of total industry Customer equity and ETF option ADV (rebate is only paid on Customer electronic contract volumes in excess of 200,000 ADV), or if OFP has electronic volume of at least 0.45% of total industry Customer equity and ETF option ADV where 40% of the electronic volume consists of non-NYSE Amex Options Market Maker, Firm, Professional Customer and or BrokerDealer (rebate is paid on all Customer electronic contract volumes) $0.06 per contract rebate if OFP has electronic Customer volume of at least 2% of total industry Customer equity and ETF option ADV (rebate is only paid on Customer electronic contract volumes in excess of 200,000 ADV), or if OFP has electronic volume of at least 0.75% of total industry Customer equity and ETF option ADV where 40% of the electronic volume consists of non-NYSE Amex Options Market Maker, Firm, Professional Customer and or Broker-Dealer (rebate is paid on all Customer electronic contract volumes) June 2 Establishes fees for CUBE auction mechanism $0 per contract fee for Customer CUBE orders and Customer Requests for Response (RFR), applies to Penny Pilot and non-Penny Pilot options; $0.20 per contract fee for non-Customer CUBE orders, applies to Penny Pilot and non-Penny Pilot options;. $0.05 per contract fee for contra orders, applies to Penny Pilot and non-Penny Pilot options; $0.55 per contract fee for non-Customer RFR responses in Penny Pilot options; $0.90 per contract fee for non-Customer RFR responses in non-Penny Pilot options N/A June 12 Establishes rebates for CUBE auction mechanism for initiating participants $0.40 per contract rebate for CUBE auction orders in Penny Pilot options; $0.80 per contract rebate for CUBE auction orders in non-Penny Pilot options N/A provider rebates EXPLANATION introduced in March, to incentivize members to send greater volumes of retail price improvement orders to the exchange. Applies to standard options. qualify for rebates for certain electronic equity and ETF option volume – these rebates exclude volume from QCC orders, strategy executions, complex orders and order routed away in connection with options order protection and the locked/ crossed market plan. 17 CUBE auction mechanism. June 12 Only applies to Cube order contracts that don't trade with the contra order. CUBE auction orders will not be counted towards the fee cap of $350,000 per month for Specialists, eSpecialists, and Market Makers as applied to an excess of volume executed beyond 3,500,000. DISCLAIMER: Most fee changes are effective upon filing. WSL notes fee highlights here, but additional changes may be made post publication. Please visit exchange websites for the latest fee changes.