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securities and futures firm

a firm whose permitted activities include designated investment business, which is not an authorised professional firm, bank, ELMI, building society, credit union, friendly society, ICVC, insurer, media firm, service company, incoming EEA firm (without a top-up permission), incoming Treaty firm (without a top-up permission), UCITS management company or UCITS qualifier (without a top-up permission), whose permission does not include a requirement that it comply with IPRU(INV) 5 (Investment management firms) or 13 (Personal investment firms), and which is within (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f)

  1. (a) a firm (other than one falling within (d)):
    1. (i) which was a member of SFA immediately before commencement; and
    2. (ii) which was not, immediately before commencement, subject to the financial supervision requirements of the FSA (under section 43 of the Financial Services Act 1986), orPIA or IMRO (under lead regulation arrangements);
  2. (b) a firm whose permission includes a requirement that it comply with IPRU(INV) 3 or 10 (Securities and futures firms);
  3. (c) a firm:
    1. (i) which was given a Part IV permission after commencement, or which was authorised under section 25 of the Financial Services Act 1986 immediately before commencement and not a member of IMRO, PIA or SFA; and
    2. (ii) for whomthe most substantial part of its gross income, including commissions, from the regulated activities included in its Part IV permission is derived from one or more of the following activities (based, for a firm given a Part IV permission after commencement, on the business plan submitted as part of the firm's application for permission or, for a firm authorised under section 25 of the Financial Services Act 1986, on thefirm's financial year preceding its authorisation under the Act):
      1. (A) an activity carried on as a member of an exchange;
      2. (B) making a market in securities or derivatives;
      3. (C) corporate finance business;
      4. (D) dealing, or arranging (bringing about) deals in investments , in securities or derivatives;
      5. (E) the provision of clearing services as a clearing firm;
      6. (F) managing investments, where those investments are primarily derivatives;
      7. (G) activities relating to spread bets;
  4. (d) a firm that is:
      1. (i) an ex-section 43 firm which was not authorised under the Financial Services Act 1986 immediately before commencement; or
      2. (ii) an ex-section 43 lead regulated firm;
  5. (e) an energy market participant;
  6. (f) an oil market participant53713.