The information disclosed under Rule 605 of Regulation NMS will be used by investors, broker-dealers, and market centers to help analyze order execution practices and evaluate different market centers. Respondents will be market centers.
The Commission recently adopted amendments to Regulation NMS to require new disclosures by broker-dealers relating to their handling of certain categories of orders and enhance existing disclosures relating to their handling to certain other categories of orders and solicited public comment. As part of this, the Commission also amended Rule 605(a)(2) to require market centers to keep reports required pursuant to Rule 605(a)(1) posted on an Internet Web site that is free of charge and readily accessible to the public for a period of three years from the initial date of posting on the Internet Web site. This amendment does not impose a burden because Rule 605 as previously adopted required that reports to be posted to an Internet Web site and the amendment merely prescribes a minimum period of time that the reports shall remain posted. We are adjusting the burden for Rule 605, however, because we have increased our estimate of the number of respondents.
US Code:
15 USC 17k-1
Name of Law: Securities Exchange Act of 1934
US Code:
15 USC 78q
Name of Law: Securities Exchange Act of 1934
The total annual hourly and cost burden increased from 9,504 hours and $4,717,152, respectively, to 27,432 hours and $13,615,416, respectively due to an increase in the number of respondents from 132 to 381 since the most recent renewal. This increase was due to the inclusion of OTC market makers among the respondents, which had erroneously been omitted in the 2016 renewal.
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Uncollected
Amir Katz 202 551-2000
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.