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designated client bank account

a client bank account with the following characteristics:

  1. (a) the account holds the money of one or more clients;
  2. (b) the account includes in its title the word "designated";
  3. (c) the clients whose money is in the account have each consented in writing to the use of the bank with which the client money is to be held; and
  4. (d) in the event of the failure of that bank, the account is not pooled with any other type of account unless a primary pooling event occurs.3