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The New World of
Multiple Securities
Marketplaces in Canada
Simon Romano
Raman Grewal
Stikeman Elliott
October 5, 2011
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The New World of Multiple Marketplaces
Agenda
ATSs in Canada
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What is an ATS?
II.
Who are the players?
III.
Issues and Opportunities
ATS Regulations
2.
3.
SLIDE 1
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ATS Rules
II.
IIROC and TSX
III.
Upcoming Changes
Q&A
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PART 1
ATSs in Canada
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What is an ATS?
■ electronic trading
system
■ automated
trade matching
■ electronic process to
buy and sell orders
■ multiple buyers and sellers
■ predetermined, non-discretionary trading
methods
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What is NOT an ATS?
■ one-on-one systems (eg. equity offerings)
■ non-binding indications of interest (IOIs)
that require further negotiation
to produce a trade
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Advantages
■ “alternative trading systems”
alternative to traditional exchanges
– broader trading options and strategies
– different pricing
– customized services
– access to markets
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Types of ATSs
■ Auction markets
- continuous matching and execution
■ Call markets
- orders aggregated and executed in
intervals
■ Crossing
- do not discover prices but allow crosses
by buyers and sellers who quote on other
markets
■ Dark pools
- no pre-trade transparency
■ Market makers
- liquidity providers continuously quote bid
and ask prices for immediate execution
systems/networks
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Equity ATSs in Canada
■ Alpha ATS
■ MATCH Now
■ Bloomberg Tradebook
■ Omega
Canada
■ Chi-X Canada
■ Instinet Canada Cross
(ICX)
■ Pure
■ TMX Select
■ Sigma X
■ Liquidnet Canada
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The Canadian Market – Equity ATSs
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Settlement
Sigma X
With thanks to Tracey Stern of the OSC
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Market Share
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New Players
■ Sigma X Canada
– Launch announced by Goldman Sachs Canada
in August, 2011
■ TMX Select
– Commenced trading in July, 2011
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Issues (Opportunities)
■ Dark Pools
Purpose:
■ Liquidity
■ Execution
■ Reduced trading costs due to
less information leakage
Issues:
■ Pre-trade transparency generally required
■ Cloak of darkness designed to, among other
things, control market impact costs
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Issues (Opportunities)
■ Dark Pools and Dark Orders, Issues cont.
■ Can be fully or partially “dark”
■ Icebergs (reserve orders)
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Issues (Opportunities)
■ Pegged Orders (reference-priced)
■ Algorithmic Trading
■ High Frequency Trading (HFT)
■ Flash Trading
■ Co-location
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Issues (Opportunities)
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Issues (Opportunities)
■ Some Issues raised:
– Fragmentation
– Price Discovery
– Liquidity
– Internalization
– Costs
– Market Integrity
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Issues (Opportunities)
■ Some Issues raised
– Specific Dealer/marketplace obligations:
■ Best price
■ Price-time priority
■ Best execution
■ Order protection
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PART 2
ATS Regulation
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Securities Acts
N1 21-101/N1 23-101 = ATS Rules
N1 31-103 – Dealer and Advisor
Registration and Requirements
– - DIAGRAM
CSA
IlROC
Exchanges
QTRS
SRO – UMIR/Dealer Member Rules
RSP (Regulation Services Provider)
ATS
(None at present)
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ATS Rules – NI 21-101 and NI 23-101
■ NI 21-101 – Largely operational and administrative
■ NI 23-101 – Substantive trading rules
■ Introduced in 2001 - exchange dominated environment
■ Continue to evolve to reality of multiple marketplaces
■ Currently subject to further amendments
■ Also subject to NI 24-101 governing trade matching and
settlement
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ATS Rules – NI 21-101
■ Rules Applicable only to ATSs
■ Rules Applicable only to Exchanges and QTRSs
■ Rules Applicable to all marketplaces
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ATS Rules – NI 21-101
■ defines “marketplace” and “ATS”
– ATS, like exchange:
■ brings together multiple buyers and sellers of securities using
established, non-discretionary methods
– ATS, unlike exchange – does not:
■ Require issuer to agree to have securities listed
■ Guarantee two-sided market
■ Govern conduct of subscribers (maybe)
■ Discipline subscribers
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable only to ATSs
■ Registration – shall not carry on business unless
– Registered as dealer
– SRO member (IIROC)
– Compliant with ATS Rules (NI 21-101 and NI 23-101)
■ Can trade only in:
– Exchange-traded securities
– Corporate or government debt
– Foreign exchange-traded securities (opportunity)
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable only to ATSs
■ Reporting
■ Threshold “trigger” notifications
■ Confidentiality protections
■ Risk Disclosure
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable only to ATSs
■ Clearing and Settlement
– trades reported and settled through
clearing agency
– dealer (subscriber) or ATS decide who reports
to clearing agency
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable only to Exchanges
and QTRSs
– Must apply for “recognition” (if granted, recognition order
sets out additional requirements, including governance,
financial statements, financial covenants, technology, etc.)
– Reporting to CSA
– Establish “compliance” rules
– Rules
■ Not contrary to “public interest”
■ Cannot “unreasonably” discriminate among clients,
issuers and members
– Filing procedure
– Can self-regulate, but to date all use IIROC as their RSP
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable to all marketplaces
■ S. 5.1/5.2 and 6.12/6.13
- Fair Access **
■ Part 7 and 8
- Transparency **
■ Part 10
- Fees
■ Part 11
- Record Keeping
■ Part 12
- Systems
■ Part 14
- Information Processor
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable to all marketplaces
■ Fair Access
– Must establish written standards for granting access
– Not unreasonably prohibit, condition or limit access
– Keep records of access granted
■ Cannot restrict trading on other marketplaces
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable to all marketplaces
■ Transparency
– Provide information to “information processor” (IP)
– Pre-trade - required for all displayed “orders”
– Post-trade – required for all trades
■ IP to produce consolidated real-time feed
– Marketplace must comply with IP’s requirements
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NI 21-101 - Rules Applicable to all marketplaces
■ Pre-Trade Transparency – Issues
– What is an “order”
– When is an indication of interest (IOI) an order
– When is order “displayed”
■ Specific issues for Dark Pools and Dark Orders,
among others
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Application
– 23-101 vs. IIROC (UMIR)
– SRO/RSPJurisdiction – through monitoring and
enforcement requirements
– Jurisdiction over ATS and its Subscribers via
“contractual agreements” required with RSP
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Prohibits
– manipulation and fraud*
■ Requires
– best execution*
– order protection*
– audit trail
* Do not apply under N1 23-101 if person complies with similar rules of an exchange, QTRS or RSP
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Best Execution
– Must make “reasonable efforts” to achieve best execution
when acting for client
– Includes making “reasonable efforts” to use facilities
providing information on orders and trades
■ Enforcement actions against dealers for failing
to connect to new ATSs
■ Does not apply under N1 23-101 to dealer that is
an ATS complying with N1 21-101.
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Best Execution
■ price, speed, certainty and overall cost
order size, reliability of quotes, liquidity,
market impact and opportunity costs
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Order Protection Rule
■ Includes
– trade-throughs
– locked or crossed markets
– anti-avoidance
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Order Protection Rule
- Requires each marketplace to establish and comply with policies
and procedures designed to prevent trade-throughs on that
marketplace, subject to certain exceptions
- Certain trades are exempt from trade-through restrictions,
including where there is technology failure as well as nonstandard, calculated-price and closing-price orders
- Marketplace participants (dealers) – cannot enter directed action
orders (DAOs) without having and complying with policies and
procedures to prevent trade-throughs
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Order Protection Rule, cont.
- Directed action orders (DAOs) - limit order for purchaser or sale of
an exchange-traded security that:
– when entered or routed to a marketplace is to be:
■ immediately executed against a protected order (remainder booked
or cancelled), or
■ placed in order book,
– is marked as a DAO, and
– is entered or routed at the same time as one or more additional limit
orders entered or routed to one or more marketplaces to execute
against any protected order with a better price
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NI 23-101 – Trading Rules
■ Best Execution and Order Protection
Intersection with Price-Time Priority
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IIROC and TSX
■ Dealers regulated by IIROC under Dealer Member Rules
■ Dealers and marketplaces regulated by UMIR
– ATSs directly regulated by IIROC as both dealers
and marketplaces
– ATSs and ATS subscribers required to submit to and comply
with RSP requirements
■ UMIR evolved over time – stretches to apply in multiple
marketplace environment
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IIROC and TSX
■ TSX rules apply to TSX participating organizations (POs)
- extended via TSX Rule Book to apply to those related POs
■ Operation of a proprietary electronic trading system
(PETS) by a PO also subject to TSX rules and limited to
trading orders of greater than 1,200 units (or $10K for
debt security)
■ Requires integration with TSX’s order book
■ Can impact dealers’ ability to establish in-house or
affiliated ATSs
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Upcoming Changes
■ Proposed Amendments to NI 21-101 and 23-101
– Minimum size threshold for dark orders
– Clarify when IOI is an order
– Lower threshold notification triggers for ATSs
– New “fair and orderly markets” obligation
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■ Proposed NI 23-103 – Direct Market Access
– Comprehensive regime to govern DMA
– Broader than current TSX “eligible client” approach
to trading access
– Puts onus on “market participants” (NI 21-101)
to govern trading access
– Excludes EMDs
■ UMIR Integrated Fee Model
– Proposal to charge fees based on number of
“messages” vs. trades
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Questions and Answers
Simon A. Romano
sromano@stikeman.com
Ramandeep K. Grewal
rgrewal@stikeman.com
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