Related provisions for BIPRU 7.8.15
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For persons who are MiFID2investment firms, the activities that must be caught by the Regulated Activities Order are those that are caught by MiFID2. To achieve this result, some of the exclusions in the Order (that will apply to persons who are not caught by MiFID2) have been made unavailable to MiFID2investment firms when they provide or perform investment services and activities. A "MiFID investment firm", for these purposes, includes credit institutions to which MiFID applies
To be eligible for the retail exposure treatment purchased receivables must comply with the minimum requirements set out in BIPRU 4.8.11 R - BIPRU 4.8.15 R and the following conditions:(1) the firm has purchased the receivables from unrelated, third party sellers, and its exposure to the obligor of the receivable does not include any exposures that are directly or indirectly originated by the firm itself;(2) the purchased receivables must be generated on an arm's-length basis
A UCITS management company must not engage in any activities other than:(1) acting as:(a) an authorised fund manager of an authorised fund; or(b) an operator of any other collective investment scheme for which the firm is subject to prudential supervision;(2) activities for the purposes of or in connection with those in (1);(3) collective portfolio management, including without limitation:(a) investment management;(b) administration:(i) legal and fund management accounting services;(ii)
The board of directors or equivalent body of the applicant must be able to act independently:11(1) of any investment manager appointed to manage investments of the applicant; and11(2) if the applicant (either directly or through other intermediaries) has an investment policy of principally investing its funds in another company or fund that invests in a portfolio of investments ("a master fund"), of the master fund and of any investment manager of the master fund.11
Although the Insurance Directives are concerned with the regulated activities of effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance, an incoming EEA firm passported under the Insurance Directives2 will be entitled to carry on certain other regulated activities without the need for top-up permission. This is where the regulated activities are carried on for the purposes of or in connection with the incoming EEA Firm's insurance business1. These regulated activities may include:(1)
(1) Cash and near cash must not be retained in the scheme property except to the extent that this may reasonably be regarded as necessary in order to enable:(a) the pursuit of the scheme's investment objectives; or(b) redemption of units; or(c) efficient management of the authorised fund in accordance with its investment objectives; or(d) other purposes which may reasonably be regarded as ancillary to the investment objectives of the authorised fund.(2) During the period of the
Table Controlled activities
1. |
Accepting deposits |
2. |
Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance |
3. |
Dealing in securities and contractually based investments |
4. |
Arranging deals in investments |
4A.4 |
Operating a multilateral trading facility4 |
5. |
Managing investments |
6. |
Safeguarding and administering investments |
7. |
Advising on investments |
8. |
Advising on syndicate participation at Lloyd's |
9. |
Providing funeral plan contracts |
10. |
Providing qualifying credit |
11.3 3 |
Arranging qualifying credit etc |
12.3 3 |
Advising on qualifying credit etc |
313. |
Providing a home reversion plan |
314. |
Arranging a home reversion plan |
315. |
Advising on a home reversion plan |
316. |
Providing a home purchase plan |
317. |
Arranging a home purchase plan |
318. |
Advising on a home purchase plan |
19.3 3 |
Agreeing to do anything in 3 to 183 above 3 |
(1) The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the Act) is the UK legislation under which bodies corporate, partnerships, individuals and unincorporated associations are permitted by the FSA to carry on various financial activities which are subject to regulation (referred to as regulated activities).(2) The activities which are regulated activities are specified in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (the Regulated Activities Order):
The overall effect is that a financial promotion must relate in some way to a controlled investment and may be summarised as the communication, in the course of business, of an invitation or inducement to:(1) acquire, dispose of or underwrite certain investments or exercise rights conferred by such an investment for such purpose or for the purpose of converting it; or(2) receive or undertake investment services such as dealing in investments as principal or as agent, managing
(1) This section covers techniques relating to transferable securities and approved money-market instruments which are used for the purpose of efficient portfolio management. It3 permits the generation of additional income for the benefit of the authorised fund, and hence for its investors, by entry into stock lending transactions for the account of the authorised fund.(2) The specific method of stock lending permitted in this section is in fact not a transaction which is a loan