Related provisions for BIPRU 12.3.22
Part II RAO Activities13 |
Part III RAO Investments |
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Reception and transmission of orders in relation to one or more financial instruments |
Article 252 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Execution of orders on behalf of clients |
Article 14, 21 |
A Article 76-81,82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Dealing on own account |
Article 14 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Portfolio management |
Article 37 (14, 21, 25 - see Note 1) 2 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Investment advice |
Article 53(1)10 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Underwriting of financial instruments and/or placing of financial instruments on a firm commitment basis |
Article 14, 21 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Placing of financial instruments without a firm commitment basis |
Article 21, 25 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Operation of Multilateral Trading Facilities |
Article 25D5 (see Note 2) 5 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Operation of an OTF |
Article 25DA (see Note 3) |
Article 77, 77A, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82B, 83-85, 89 |
Ancillary services |
Part II RAO Activities |
Part III RAO Investments |
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Safekeeping and administration of financial instruments for the account of clients, including custodianship and related services such as cash/collateral management |
Article 40, 45, 64 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Granting credits or loans to an investor to allow him to carry out a transaction in one or more of the relevant instruments where the firm granting the credit or loan is involved |
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Advice to undertakings on capital structure, industrial strategy and related matters and advice and services relating to mergers and the purchase of undertakings |
Article 14, 21, 25, 53(1)10, 64 |
Article 76-80, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Foreign exchange services where these are connected with the provision of investment services |
Article 14, 21, 25, 53(1)10, 64 |
Article 83-85, 89 |
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Investment research and financial analysis or other forms of general recommendation relating to transactions in financial instruments |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Services related to underwriting |
Article 25, 53(1)10, 64 |
Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89 |
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Investment services and activities as well as ancillary services of the type included under Section A or B of Annex I related to the underlying of the derivatives included under Section C 5, 6, 7 and 10-where these are connected to the provision of investment or ancillary services. |
Article 14, 21, 25, 25D,5 37, 53(1)10, 64 5 |
Article 83 and 84 |
Note 1. A firm may also carry on these other activities when it is managing investments.2 |
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Note 2. A firm operating an MTF under article 25D5 does not need to have a permission covering other regulated activities, unless it performs other regulated activities in addition to operating an MTF. 5 |
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Note 3. A firm operating an OTF under article 25DA does not need to have a permission covering other regulated activities, unless it performs other regulated activities in addition to operating an OTF.12 |
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13Note 4: A firm which provides investment research and financial analysis or other forms of general recommendation relating to transactions in financial instruments does not need permission under article 53(1) of the Regulated Activities Order if it is appropriately authorised (see article 53(1) to (1D) of the Regulated Activities Order). |
A person is an indirect holder of shares for the purpose of the applicable definition of shareholder to the extent that he is entitled to acquire, to dispose of, or to exercise voting rights in any of the following cases or a combination of them:
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voting rights held by a third party with whom that person has concluded an agreement, which obliges them to adopt, by concerted exercise of the voting rights they hold, a lasting common policy towards the management of the issuer in question; |
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voting rights held by a third party under an agreement concluded with that person providing for the temporary transfer for consideration of the voting rights in question; |
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voting rights attaching to shares which are lodged as collateral with that person provided that person controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them; |
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voting rights attaching to shares in which that person has the life interest; |
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voting rights which are held, or may be exercised within the meaning of points (a) to (d) or, in cases (f) and (h) by a person1 undertaking investment management, or by a management company, by an undertaking controlled by that person; 1 |
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voting rights attaching to shares deposited with that person which the person can exercise at its discretion in the absence of specific instructions from the shareholders; |
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voting rights held by a third party in his own name on behalf of that person; |
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voting rights which that person may exercise as a proxy where that person can exercise the voting rights at his discretion in the absence of specific instructions from the shareholders. |
[Note: article 10 of the TD]
Client assets report
Whether in the auditor's opinion |
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the firm has maintained systems adequate to enable it to comply with the custody rules (except CASS 6.7)13, the collateral rules,5 the client money rules3 (except CASS 5.2)13, the debt management client money rules9 and the mandate rules5 throughout the period ;5 353 |
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the firm was in compliance with the custody rules (except CASS 6.7)13, the collateral rules,5 the client money rules3 (except CASS 5.2), the debt management client money rules9 and the mandate rules5,13 at the date as at which the report has been made; 353 |
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in the case of an investment management firm, personal investment firm, a UCITS firm,2securities and futures firm, firm acting as trustee or depositary of an AIF, firm acting as trustee or depositary of a UCITS7 or IFPRU investment firm8or BIPRU firm8,2 when a subsidiary of the firm is during the period 5a nominee company in whose name custody assets of the firm are registered during the period, 5 that nominee company has maintained throughout the period5 systems for the custody, identification and control of custody assets which: 2285 |
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were5 adequate; and 5 |
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included5 reconciliations at appropriate intervals between the records maintained (whether by the firm or the nominee company) and statements or confirmations from custodians or from the person who maintained5 the record of legal entitlement; and 55 |
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if there has been a secondary pooling event during the period, the firm has 1complied with the rules in943CASS 5.6 and CASS 7A43 (Client money distribution)1and CASS 11.13 (debt management client money distribution rules)9 in relation to that pooling event. 3 |
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