tied agent
a person who, under the full and unconditional responsibility of only one MiFID investment firm, third country investment firm or TP firm which is an EEA MiFID investment firm86 on whose behalf it acts, promotes investment services and/or ancillary services to clients or prospective clients, receives and transmits instructions or orders from the client in respect of investment services or financial instruments, places financial instruments and/or provides advice to clients or prospective clients in respect of those financial instruments or investment services.