# 2026-15926: NYSE American Joins Fee Fiddle: Wall Street Shrugs

2026-15926, Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE American LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend the Options Regulatory Fee (ORF), is a Federal Register notice from Securities and Exchange Commission published 2026-08-06, effective 2026-07-01; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-13).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15926
- As of: 2026-08-13
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-15926
- Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE American LLC; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend the Options Regulatory Fee (ORF)
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Citation: 91 FR 50898
- Published: 2026-08-06
- Effective: 2026-07-01
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-08-13

## In one line

NYSE American Joins Fee Fiddle: Wall Street Shrugs

## Summary

No summary available.

## Effects PRIA read

- ORF rate set at $0.0050 on Sept. 1: cost, low. The exchange proposes an Options Regulatory Fee (ORF) rate of $0.0050 per contract effective September 1, 2026. For context, the ORF rate was $0.0026 per contract before July 1, 2026 and the exchange had earlier proposed $0.0160 per contract effective July 1, 2026.
- ORF charged only on on‑Exchange customer trades: mixed, medium. Starting July 1, 2026, the ORF is assessed only for options executions that occur on the Exchange and are cleared by the OCC in the customer range. The per-contract ORF is assessed on each side of such transactions and collected by the OCC from the clearing firm (either an ATP Holder or a non-ATP c…

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## Sources
- [2026-15926 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/06/2026-15926/self-regulatory-organizations-nyse-american-llc-notice-of-filing-and-immediate-effectiveness-of-a)
- [2026-15926 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-08-06/pdf/2026-15926.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-15926 (as of 2026-08-13).