OREANDA-NEWS. Pending SEC filing, effective Friday, July 17, 2015, Nasdaq will update pricing for the NBBO Program for NYSE-listed securities.

As stated in Equity Trader Alert #2015-81, Nasdaq introduced NBBO Program pricing. Effective July 17, 2015, firms executing 0.50% or more of Consolidated Volume during a month will qualify for a rebate of \\$0.0004 in NYSE-listed securities. Full details of the updated NBBO Program are below.

NBBO Program

Nasdaq will provide a rebate per share executed with respect to all other displayed orders (other than Designated Retail Orders, as defined in Rule 7018) in securities priced at \\$1 or more per share that provide liquidity and establish the NBBO. The rebate will be in addition to any rebate or credit payable under Rule 7018 and Rule 7014.

To qualify for the \\$0.0002 per share executed NBBO Program rebate a member must either:

    (1) Execute shares of liquidity provided in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represents 0.475% or more of Consolidated Volume during the month, or
    (2) Add NOM Market Maker liquidity, as defined in Chapter XV, Section 2 of the Nasdaq Options Market rules, in Penny Pilot Options and/or Non-Penny Pilot Options above 0.90% of total industry customer equity and ETF option ADV contracts per day in a month.

To qualify for the \\$0.0004 per share executed NBBO Program rebate in NYSE-listed securities (in lieu of the \\$0.0002 per share executed rebate above) a member must execute shares of liquidity provided in all securities through one or more of its Nasdaq Market Center MPIDs that represents greater than 0.50% or more of Consolidated Volume during the month.