In spring of 2022, MEMX plans to release its new Retail Midpoint Liquidity Program (“RMLP”) pending SEC approval. The program details can be found here SR-MEMX-2021-10: Proposal to Establish a Retail Midpoint Liquidity Program. The advance copy of the new specifications can be download here. You will be prompted to choose to download the current […]
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On Monday, November 15, 2021, MEMX plans to release the following updates to available risk controls: Duplicative orders risk control – Members will have the ability to configure this control to exclude “price” as a parameter in the calculation. By default, symbol, side, quantity and price are included in the calculation. Order rate control – Members will […]
Effective Monday, November 1, 2021, MEMX will be implementing the following changes to transaction fees, subject to filing with the SEC: Adoption of a Targeted Step-Up Tier that provides an additive rebate for executions of added volume in securities >=$1 (other than displayed Retail Orders) if one of two specified volume thresholds is achieved in […]
On Monday, September 27, 2021, MEMX is releasing a new feature where Members can opt to change the behavior when the aggregate gross and net exposure limits are breached. The default behavior of the aggregate risk controls is to reject new orders and cancel open orders. The new functionality permits Members to optionally let open orders remain, while rejecting all […]
Effective Wednesday, September 1, 2021, MEMX will be implementing the following changes to transaction fees, subject to filing with the SEC: Updated the criteria for the Liquidity Provision Tier to be based on percentage of TCV. Adoption of a second Liquidity Provision Tier. Adoption of a second Displayed Liquidity Incentive (DLI) Tier. Increase of the […]
On Saturday, August 21, 2021, MEMX is participating in the UTP and CTA failover testing to the secondary data centers as well as Market-Wide Circuit Breaker testing. The trading platform will be available for Member testing. Test Schedule for Saturday, August 21, 2021: Time (Eastern) Trading Status 8:00A Session Available 8:30A Pre-Market 9:30A Market 12:00P Post-Market 1:00P […]
On Saturday, August 14, 2021, MEMX is planing to make the trading platform available for a UAT for Members to test in the production environment. While there are no trading platform changes, MEMX is releasing a new query tool that can be accessed through the MEMX User Portal. Below is a list of query filters that will […]
Effective Monday, August 2, 2021, MEMX will be implementing the following changes to transaction fees, subject to filing with the SEC: Adoption of the liquidity removal tier. Increase of the fee to remove liquidity. Allowing aggregation of ADAV and ADV for affiliate Members with prior notice to MEMX. Changes are reflected in bold text below. Trading Fees and Rebates Fee Code […]
On July 26, 2021, MEMX has released new versions of its MEMO FIX and MEMO SBE specifications. The new 1.6 versions can be downloaded here. Please note, this update is not a trading platform update/change, but rather a specification update to include details on Pending New Execution report messages and Order Reject Reason Codes as […]
On Saturday, July 17, 2021, MEMX is planing to make the trading platform available for a UAT for Members to test in the production environment. Test Schedule for Saturday, July 17, 2021: Time (Eastern) Trading Status 8:30A Session Available 9:00A Pre-Market 9:30A Market 12:00P Post-Market 1:00P Post-Market Closed 1:15P Session Closed Our Market Operations and Member Experience […]