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BATS Global Markets said in a statement: “As we’ve stated in the past, BATS supports the policy goals of Reg SCI and we appreciate the Commission’s thoughtful consideration of industry comment letters in finalizing the rule.” The rules also provide a framework for these entities to, among other things, take appropriate corrective action when systems issues occur; provide notifications and reports to the SEC regarding systems problems and systems changes; inform members and participants about systems issues; conduct business continuity testing; and conduct annual reviews of their automated systems. “Tackling systemic risk has been one of the biggest priorities in recent years and the approval of the SEC’s long-anticipated Reg SCI is an important step,” said Mark Brennan, head of business development, Americas at ITRS. “Reg SCI is an implicit recognition of the importance of exchanges and large venues to market stability and represents a major regulatory incentive for rigorous monitoring.” Monitoring needs to encompass potential infrastructure errors, from a CPU exceeding its upper performance threshold or a FIX gateway outage preventing inbound flow from clients to covering behaviours that could indicate a system glitch or human error, according to Brennan. “The reward for best-practice monitoring for firms goes far beyond regulatory compliance though – it means maximum uptime, reduced reputational risk and protected market-data revenue streams,” he said. Entities subject to Regulation SCI generally must comply with the requirements nine months after the effective date. ATSs newly meeting the volume thresholds in the rules for the first time, will be provided an additional six months from the time that the ATS first meets the applicable thresholds to comply. 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