The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that NYSE Arca, Inc. filed a proposed rule change to modify its options fee schedule. This change increases the fee for manual executions by NYSE Arca Market Makers from $0.35 to $0.50 per contract. The adjustment aims to align NYSE Arca’s fees with those of at least one competing exchange. The market is highly competitive, with no single exchange gaining considerable pricing power, so this change is not expected to impose any undue competitive burden.
Simple Explanation
NYSE Arca, a company that runs a special place where people trade things called options, is raising the price for some of their helpers, called Market Makers, to do their job by a little bit. This change makes their costs more like at least one other similar trading place, and it's not a big deal because lots of other places do this too, so it won't make things unfair.