Related provisions for CONC 13.1.5
The Principles
1 Integrity |
A firm must conduct its business with integrity. |
2 Skill, care and diligence |
A firm must conduct its business with due skill, care and diligence. |
3 Management and control |
A firm must take reasonable care to organise and control its affairs responsibly and effectively, with adequate risk management systems. |
4 Financial prudence |
A firm must maintain adequate financial resources. |
5 Market conduct |
A firm must observe proper standards of market conduct. |
6 Customers' interests |
A firm must pay due regard to the interests of its customers and treat them fairly. |
7 Communications with clients |
A firm must pay due regard to the information needs of its clients, and communicate information to them in a way which is clear, fair and not misleading. |
8 Conflicts of interest |
A firm must manage conflicts of interest fairly, both between itself and its customers and between a customer and another client. |
9 Customers: relationships of trust |
A firm must take reasonable care to ensure the suitability of its advice and discretionary decisions for any customer who is entitled to rely upon its judgment. |
10 Clients' assets |
A firm must arrange adequate protection for clients' assets when it is responsible for them. |
11 Relations with regulators |
A firm must deal with its regulators in an open and cooperative way, and must disclose to the appropriate regulator appropriately anything relating to the firm of which that regulator would reasonably expect notice. |
2The PD Regulation provides for categories of information to be included in the base prospectus and final terms.
Categories of information in the base prospectus and the final terms |
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The categories set out in Annex XX shall determine the degree of flexibility by which the information can be given in the base prospectus or the final terms. The categories shall be defined as follows: |
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'Category A' means the relevant information which shall be included in the base prospectus. This information cannot be left in blank for later insertion in the final terms; |
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(b) |
'Category B' means that the base prospectus shall include all the general principles related to the information required, and only the details which are unknown at the time of the approval of the base prospectus can be left in blank for later insertion in the final terms; |
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'Category C' means that the base prospectus may contain a reserved space for later insertion for the information which was not known at the time of the approval of the base prospectus. Such information shall be inserted in the final terms. |
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Where the conditions of Article 16(1) of Directive 2003/71/EC apply, a supplement shall be required. |
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Where those conditions do not apply, the issuer, the offeror or the person asking for admission to trading on a regulated market shall publish a notice of the change. |
47The applicable data items, reporting frequencies and submission deadlines referred to in SUP 16.12.4 R are set out in the table below. Reporting frequencies are calculated from a firm'saccounting reference date, unless indicated otherwise. The due dates are the last day of the periods given in the table below following the relevant reporting frequency period.
Description of data item |
Data item (note 1) |
Frequency |
Submission deadline |
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Annual revenue from credit-related regulated activities up to and including £5 million (note 2) |
Annual revenue from credit-related regulated activities over £5 million |
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Financial data (note 3) |
CCR001 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Volumes (note 4) |
CCR002 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Lenders (note 5) |
CCR003 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Debt management (note 6) |
CCR004 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Client Money & Assets (note 7) |
CCR005 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Debt collection (note 8) |
CCR006 |
Annually |
Half yearly |
30 business days |
Key data (note 9) |
CCR007 |
Annually |
Annually |
30 business days56 |
56Credit broking websites (note 10) |
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Note 1 |
When submitting the required data item, a firm must use the format of the data item set out in SUP 16 Annex 38A50. Guidance notes for the completion of the data items is set out in SUP 16 Annex 38B50. |
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Note 2 |
References to revenue in SUP 16.12.29C R in relation to any firm do not include the amount of any repayment of any credit provided by that firm as lender. |
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Note 3 |
(a) Subject to (b) to (d) below, this data item applies to all credit firms. (b) This data item does not apply to a firm if the only credit-related regulated activity for which it has permission is operating an electronic system in relation to lending. (c) This data item does not apply to a firm required to submit a Balance Sheet, Income Statement or Capital Adequacy data item from a RAG other than RAG 12. (d) This data item does not apply to a firm with limited permission unless it is a not-for-profit debt advice body and at any point in the last 12 months has held £1 million or more in client money or as the case may be, projects that it will hold £1million or more in client money in the next 12 months. |
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Note 4 |
(a) Subject to (b) below, this data item applies to all credit firms. (b) This data item does not apply to a firm with limited permission unless it is a not-for-profit debt advice body and at any point in the last 12 months has held £1 million or more in client money or as the case may be, projects that it will hold £1million or more in client money in the next 12 months. |
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Note 5 |
This data item applies to all firms with permission for entering into a regulated credit agreement as lender or exercising, or having the right to exercise, the lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement. |
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Note 6 |
(a) Subject to (b) to (d) below, this data item applies to a debt management firm and to a not-for-profit debt advice body that at any point in the last 12 months has held £1 million or more in client money or, as the case may be, projects that it will hold £1million or more in client money in the next 12 months. (b) This data item does not apply to a firm with limited permission other than a not-for-profit debt advice body within (a). (c) This data item does not apply to a firm required to submit a Capital Adequacy data item from a RAG other than RAG 12, or under SUP 16.13, unless (d) applies (d) Where a firm is required to submit a Capital Adequacy data item from a RAG other than RAG 12 or under SUP 16.13 but the firm's highest capital requirement derives from its activity under RAG 12, the firm should submit both CCR004 and the Capital Adequacy data item required from the RAG other than RAG 12 or SUP 16.13. |
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Note 7 |
This data item applies to a CASS debt management firm. |
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Note 8 |
This data item applies to a firm with permission to carry on debt collecting or operating an electronic system in relation to lending. |
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note 9 |
(a) Subject to (b) and (c) below, this data item applies to a firm that has limited permission. (b) This data item does not apply to an authorised professional firm that is a CASS debt management firm. Such a firm is instead required to submit the other data items in SUP 16.12.29C R as appropriate. (c) This data item does not apply to a not-for-profit debt advice body that at any point in the last 12 months has held £1 million or more in client money or, as the case may be, projects that it will hold £1million or more in client money in the next 12 months. Such a not-for-profit debt advice body is instead required to submit data items CCR001, CCR002, CCR004 and CCR005.56 |
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60Note 11 |
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Financial reports from a member of a financial conglomerate (see SUP 16.12.32 R)
Content of Report |
Form (Note 1) |
Frequency |
Due Date |
Calculation of supplementary capital adequacy requirements in accordance with one of the three42 technical calculation methods 42 |
Note 2 |
Note 5 Yearly42 |
Note 5 |
Identification of significant risk concentration levels |
Note 3 |
Yearly |
4 months after year end |
Identification of significant intra-group transactions |
Note 4 |
Yearly |
4 months after year end |
Report on compliance with GENPRU 3.1.35 R where it applies 11 |
Note 6 |
Note 5 |
Note 5 |
Note 1 |
When giving the report required, a firm must use the form indicated, if any. |
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Note 2 |
In respect of FCA-authorised persons, if39 Part 1 of GENPRU 3 Annex 1 (method68 1), or42 Part 2 of GENPRU 3 Annex 1 (method 2), or Part 3 of GENPRU 3 Annex 1 (method 3) applies, there is no specific form. Adequate information must be provided, specifying the calculation method used42 and each financial conglomerate for which the FCA68 is the co-ordinator must discuss with the FCA68 the form which this reporting will take and the extent to which verification by an auditor will be required.42 119696969642 |
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For the purposes of the above, where relevant to the agreed reporting arrangements,42rules 9.40(1), 9.40(1A), 9.40(3) and 9.40(4) of IPRU(INS) apply as they would if the financial conglomerate42 were an insurance group. 4242 |
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Note 3 |
Rather than specifying a standard format for each financial conglomerate to use, each financial conglomerate for which the FCA68 is the co-ordinator must discuss with the FCA68 the form of the information to be reported. This should mean that usual information management systems of the financial conglomerate can be used to the extent possible to generate and analyse the information required. When reviewing the risk concentration levels, the FCA68 will in particular monitor the possible risk of contagion in the financial conglomerate, the risk of a conflict of interests, the risk of circumvention of sectoral rules68, and the level or volume of risks. 969696969696 |
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Note 4 |
For the purposes of this reporting requirement, an intra-group transaction will be presumed to be significant if its amount exceeds 5% of the total amount of capital adequacy requirements at the level of the financial conglomerate. Rather than specifying a standard format for each financial conglomerate to use, each financial conglomerate for which the FCA68 is the co-ordinator must11 discuss with the FCA68 the form of the information to be reported. This should mean that the68 usual information management systems of the financial conglomerate can be used to the extent possible to generate and analyse the information required. When reviewing the intra-group transactions, the FCA68 will in particular monitor the possible risk of contagion in the financial conglomerate, the risk of a conflict of interest11, the risk of circumvention of sectoral rules, and the level or volume of risks. 96961196969696 |
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Note 5 |
The frequency and due date will be as follows: (1) banking and investment services conglomerate68:11 frequency is yearly68 with due date 45 business days after period end;42 and68 (2) insurance conglomerate: frequency is yearly with due date four months after period end for the capital adequacy return and three months after period end for the report on compliance with GENPRU 3.1.35 R where it applies. 114242 |
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Note 6 |
Adequate information must be added as a separate item to the relevant form for sectoral reporting. |