Just a clarification on the NYSE Open Book issue:
NYSE has only two possible definitions of data - controlled device, such as a trading platform, and data feed recipient. Anyone who is a data feed recipient, even if they are not a market data vendor and receive market data only for their trading purposes, has to pay as much as a data feed vendor to NYSE, 5k for OpenBook and around 1750 for L1/time and sale. This is because the definition was written before someone could get data this way, before the advent of black boxes.
NYSE is enforcing this streetwide - Genesis, Lime, Assent, IB, Sterling, etc.
At the same time, NYSE understands that the definition should also encompass subscribers who get data to trade using a black box, not to redistribute, and is working with their regulators to add that definition to their policies as well as adjust their pricing.
We agree the $5000 and $1750 / month creates an enormous burden on the API/Blackbox. Genesis is talking to the NYSE to try to alleviate the charge for $5000 and also the $1750 for SIAC for API and blackbox, and to get the cost down, we feel NYSE will lose market share with this type of charge.
NYSE has only two possible definitions of data - controlled device, such as a trading platform, and data feed recipient. Anyone who is a data feed recipient, even if they are not a market data vendor and receive market data only for their trading purposes, has to pay as much as a data feed vendor to NYSE, 5k for OpenBook and around 1750 for L1/time and sale. This is because the definition was written before someone could get data this way, before the advent of black boxes.
NYSE is enforcing this streetwide - Genesis, Lime, Assent, IB, Sterling, etc.
At the same time, NYSE understands that the definition should also encompass subscribers who get data to trade using a black box, not to redistribute, and is working with their regulators to add that definition to their policies as well as adjust their pricing.
We agree the $5000 and $1750 / month creates an enormous burden on the API/Blackbox. Genesis is talking to the NYSE to try to alleviate the charge for $5000 and also the $1750 for SIAC for API and blackbox, and to get the cost down, we feel NYSE will lose market share with this type of charge.