Subject: File No. 10-222
From: Claire L Tondreau

December 14, 2015

I was horrified when the global financial system was on the verge of collapsing, and became more horrified as I began to understand the factors that contributed to the situation. While press coverage seemed to detach the "system" from the impact on individuals, it was—and remains—impossible to forget how vulnerable individual investors are to the choices the "system" makes.

I am one of those individual investors. I am also a proponent of fairness and deeply concerned that fairness has no place in our markets.

I strongly urge you to approve IEX's application to become a fully licensed securities exchange with a protected quotation.

This is the SEC's opportunity to protect long term investors from professionals who are pursuing their own understandable, but broadly damaging, short-term interests. To take any other action would make it clear that the SEC supports continued inequity.

Approving IEX's application is a critical step to take in restoring some of the trust the SEC's past choices have eroded. Please do so.

Thank you.