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financial instrument

  1. (a) transferable securities as defined in the ISD;
  2. (b) units in collective investment undertakings,
  3. (c) money-market instruments;
  4. (d) financial-futures contracts, including equivalent cash-settled instruments;
  5. (e) forward interest-rate agreements;
  6. (f) interest-rate, currency and equity swaps;
  7. (g) options to acquire or dispose of any instrument falling into these categories, including equivalent cash-settled instruments. This category includes in particular options on currency and on interest rates;
  8. (h) derivatives on commodities; and
  9. (i) any other instrument admitted to trading on a regulated market in an EEA State or for which a request for admission to trading on such a market has been made.14