Upcoming Rules & Guidance Changes

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Market Maker eligibility settings

NZX has made amendments to the below Rules, Procedures and Guidance to facilitate changes to its market maker eligibility settings, allowing entities that are not NZX Participants to apply to be Designated Market Makers. Mark-ups of the relevant documents are available below:

These amendments will become effective on Friday, 22 November 2024.

Booking Purposes Only Transactions Amendments - Self-Match Prevention Practice Note Amendments

NZX has made amendments to the Self-Match Prevention (SMP) Practice Note to facilitate the enhancement of the self-match prevention (SMP) tool through the introduction of booking purposes only transaction (BPOT) functionality.

A mark-up of the amendments to the practice note is available below:

NZX Dark is available now for market participants and NZX currently expects the SMP enhancements will be available in Q4 2024. Please note that the above amendments to the SMP Practice Note will come into effect in Q4 2024 (revised).