(a) Each Member shall make, keep current and preserve such books and records as the Exchange may prescribe and as may be prescribed by the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder.

(b) No Member shall refuse to make available to the Exchange such books, records or other information as may be called for under the Rules of the Exchange or as may be requested in connection with an investigation by the Exchange.

Supplementary Material to Options 6E, Section 1

.01 In addition to the existing obligations under Exchange Rules regarding the production of books and records, a Primary Market Maker in non-U.S. currency options, futures or options on futures on such currency, or any other derivatives based on such currency, shall make available to the Exchange such books, records or other information pertaining to transactions in the applicable non-U.S.-currency options, futures or options on futures on such currency, or any other derivatives on such currency, as may be requested by the Exchange.

.02 In addition to the existing obligations under Exchange Rules regarding the production of books and records, a Primary Market Maker in commodity futures contracts, options on commodity futures contracts or any other derivatives based on such commodity, shall make available to the Exchange such books, records or other information pertaining to transactions in the applicable physical commodity, physical commodity options, commodity futures contracts, options on commodity futures contracts, or any other derivatives on such commodity, as may be requested by the Exchange.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

(a) Upon request of the Exchange, each Member shall submit a report of the total uncovered short positions in each options contract of a class dealt in on the Exchange showing (i) positions carried by such Member for its own account and (ii) positions carried by such Member for the accounts of customers; provided that the Members shall not report positions carried for the accounts of other Members where such other Members report the positions themselves.

(b) Such report shall be submitted not later than the second business day following the date the request is made.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

Each Member shall submit to the Exchange answers to financial questionnaires, reports of income and expenses and additional financial information in the type, form, manner and time prescribed by the Exchange.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

(a) Each Member approved to do business with the public in accordance with Options 10 of the Rules and each registered Market Maker shall file a report of its financial condition as of the date, within each calendar year, prepared in accordance with the requirements of Rule 17a-5 and Form X-17A-5 under the Exchange Act and containing the information called for by that form.

(1) The report of each Member approved to do business with the public shall be certified by an independent public accountant, and on or before January 10 of each year, each such Member shall notify the Exchange of the name of the independent public accountant appointed for that year and the date as of which the report will be made.

(2) Such report of financial condition, together with answers to an Exchange financial questionnaire based upon the report, shall be filed with the Exchange no later than sixty (60) days after the date as of which the financial condition of the Member is reported, or such other period as the Exchange may individually require.

(b) A Member may file, in lieu of the report required in paragraph (a) of this Rule, a copy of any financial statement which it is or has been required to file with any other national securities exchange or national securities association of which he is a Member, or with any agency of any State as a condition of doing business in securities therein, and which is acceptable to the Exchange as containing substantially the same information as Form X-17A-5.

(c) In addition to the annual report required of certain Members pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Rule, the Exchange may require any Member to cause an audit of its financial condition to be made by an independent public accountant in accordance with the audit requirements of Form X-17A-5 as of the date of an answer to a financial questionnaire, and to file a statement to the effect that such audit has been made and whether it is in accord with the answers to the questionnaire.

(1) Such statement shall be signed by two general partners in the case of a Member that is a partnership and by two executive officers in the case of a Member that is a corporation or LLC and it shall be attested to by the independent public accountant who certified the audit.

(2) The original report of the audit signed by the independent public accountant shall be retained as part of the books and records of the Member.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

A Member shall submit requested trade data elements, in such automated format as may be prescribed by the Exchange from time to time, in regard to a transaction(s) that is the subject of the particular request for information.

(a) If the transaction was a proprietary transaction effected or caused to be effected by the Member for any account in which such Member, or any approved person, partner, officer, director, or employee thereof, is directly or indirectly interested, the Member shall submit or cause to be submitted, any or all of the following information as requested by the Exchange:

(1) Clearing house number or alpha symbol as used by the Member submitting the data;

(2) Clearing house number(s) or alpha symbol(s) as may be used from time to time, of the Member(s) on the opposite side of the transaction;

(3) Identifying symbol assigned to the security and where applicable for the options month and series symbols;

(4) Date transaction was executed;

(5) Number of option contracts for each specific transaction and whether each transaction was an opening or closing purchase or sale, as well as:

(i) the number of shares traded or held by accounts for which options data is submitted;

(ii) where applicable, the number of shares for each specific transaction and whether each transaction was a purchase, sale or short sale;

(6) Transaction price;

(7) Account number; and

(8) Market center where transaction was executed.

(b) If the transaction was effected or caused to be effected by the Member for any customer account, such Member shall submit or cause to be submitted any or all the following information as requested by the Exchange:

(1) Data elements (1) through (8) of paragraph (a) above;

(2) Customer name, address(es), branch office number, Representative number, whether the order was discretionary, solicited or unsolicited, date the account was opened and employer name and tax identification number(s); and

(3) If the transaction was effected for a Member broker-dealer customer, whether the broker-dealer was acting as a principal or agent on the transaction or transactions that are the subject of the Exchange's request.

(c) In addition to the above trade data elements, a Member shall submit such other information in such automated format as may be prescribed by the Exchange, as may from time to time be required.

(d) The Exchange may grant exceptions, in such cases and for such time periods as it deems appropriate, from the requirement that the data elements prescribed in paragraphs (a) and (b) above be submitted to the Exchange in an automated format.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

(a) Each Clearing Member that clears or guarantees the transactions of Market Makers pursuant to Options 6, Section 4, shall establish and maintain written procedures for assessing and monitoring the potential risks to the Member's capital over a specified range of possible market movements of positions maintained in such Market Maker accounts and such related accounts as the Exchange shall from time to time direct.

(1) Current procedures shall be filed and maintained with the Exchange.

(2) The procedures shall specify the computations to be made, the frequency of computations, the records to be reviewed and maintained and the position(s) within the organization responsible for the risk management.

(b) Each affected Member shall at a minimum assess and monitor its potential risk of loss from options Market Maker accounts each business day as of the close of business the prior day through use of an Exchange-approved computerized risk analysis program, which shall comply with at least the minimum standards specified below and such other standards as from time to time may be prescribed by the Exchange:

(1) The estimated loss to the Clearing Member for each Market Maker account (potential account deficit) shall be determined given the impact of broad market movements in reasonable intervals over a range from negative fifteen percent (15%) to positive fifteen percent (15%).

(2) The Member shall calculate volatility using a method approved by the Exchange, with volatility updated at least weekly. The program must have the capability of expanding volatility when projecting losses throughout the range of broad market movements.

(3) Options prices shall be estimated through use of recognized options pricing models such as, but not limited to, Black-Scholes and Cox-Reubenstein.

(4) At a minimum, written reports shall be generated which describe for each market scenario:

(i) projected loss per options class by account;

(ii) projected total loss per options class for all accounts; and

(iii) projected deficits per account and in aggregate.

(c) Upon direction by the Exchange, each affected Member shall provide to the Exchange such information as it may reasonably require with respect to the Member's risk analysis for any or all of its Market Maker accounts.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

(a) The Exchange may enter into agreements that provide for the exchange of information and other forms of mutual assistance for market surveillance, investigative, enforcement and other regulatory purposes, with domestic SROs and foreign self-regulatory organizations, as well as associations and contract markets and the regulators of such markets.

(b) The Exchange may enter into one or more agreements with another SRO to provide regulatory services to the Exchange to assist the Exchange in discharging its obligations under Section 6 and Section 19(g) of the Exchange Act. Any action taken by another SRO, or its employees or authorized agents, acting on behalf of the Exchange pursuant to a regulatory services agreement shall be deemed to be an action taken by the Exchange; provided, however, that nothing in this provision shall affect the oversight of such other SRO by the SEC. Notwithstanding the fact that the Exchange may enter into one or more regulatory services agreements, the Exchange shall retain ultimate legal responsibility for, and control of, its self-regulatory responsibilities, and any such regulatory services agreement shall so provide.

(c) No Member, partner, officer, director or other person associated with a Member or other person or entity subject to the jurisdiction of the Exchange shall refuse to appear and testify before another exchange or self-regulatory organization in connection with a regulatory investigation, examination or disciplinary proceeding or refuse to furnish documentary materials or other information or otherwise impede or delay such investigation, examination or disciplinary proceeding if the Exchange requests such information or testimony in connection with an inquiry resulting from an agreement entered into by the Exchange pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Rule, including but not limited to Members and affiliates of the Intermarket Surveillance Group. The requirements of this paragraph (b) shall apply regardless whether the Exchange has itself initiated a formal investigation or disciplinary proceeding.

(d) Whenever information is requested by the Exchange pursuant to this Rule, the Member or person associated with a Member from whom the information is requested shall have the same rights and procedural protections in responding to such request as such Member or person would have in the case of any other request for information initiated by the Exchange pursuant to Rule 8210.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17); amended June 10, 2020 (SR-ISE-2020-22), operative July 10, 2020.]

(a) In order to enhance the physical security of the facilities, records, systems, data, and information of the Exchange, it shall be the policy of the Exchange to conduct a fingerprint-based criminal records check of (i) all Exchange employees, including temporary employees who have or are anticipated to have access to Exchange facilities for at least ten (10) days, and (ii) all independent contractors and other service providers who have access to Exchange facilities, records, systems, data or other information which places the security of the Exchange at risk. However, the Exchange may determine not to obtain fingerprints from, or to seek criminal history record information with respect to, any of the foregoing individuals, due to their restricted or supervised access to the Exchange's facilities, records, systems, data and other information.

(b) The Exchange shall submit fingerprints obtained pursuant to this Rule to the Attorney General of the United States or his or her designee for identification and processing. The Exchange shall at all times maintain the security of fingerprints and information received from the Attorney General or his or her designee.

(c) The Exchange shall evaluate information received from the Attorney General or his or her designee in accordance with the terms of a written fingerprint policy and provisions of applicable law. A felony or serious misdemeanor conviction will be a factor in considering whether to take adverse employment action with respect to an employee or to deny an independent contractor or other service provider access to the Exchange's facilities, records, systems, data or other information.

(d) Any employee who refuses to submit to fingerprinting shall be terminated following notice and being given three opportunities to submit. Any person who is given an offer of employment with the Exchange that is conditioned upon submitting to fingerprinting but refuses to do so will have the offer withdrawn. Any independent contractor or other service provider who refuses to submit to fingerprinting shall be denied access, or shall be given restricted or supervised access, to Exchange facilities, records, systems, data or other information.

[Adopted June 6, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-17).]

[Adopted Dec. 9, 2019 (SR-ISE-2019-32).]