Related provisions for DISP 1.1.13
Table: FCA-approved persons forms
Form |
Purpose |
Handbook requirement |
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the relevant Form A |
311 | Application to perform controlled functions under the approved persons regime |
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Form B |
Notice to withdraw an application to perform controlled functions under the approved persons regime |
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Form C |
Notice of ceasing to perform controlled functions |
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Form D |
Notification of changes in personal information or application details |
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Form E |
113 | Internal transfer of an approved person |
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5556 | |||
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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 FCA1 appropriately anything relating to the firm of which that regulator would reasonably expect notice. |
4The guidance in relation to the recognition requirements in the sections of REC 2 listed in Column A of the table below applies to a RAP in relation to the equivalent RAP recognition requirements listed in Column C and (if shown) with the modifications in Column B.
Table: Guidance on RAP recognition requirements
Column A |
Column B |
Column C Relevant RAP recognition requirement |
REC 2.2.2G to REC 2.2.7G (Relevant circumstances and Outsourcing) |
Reg 13 |
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REC 2.3.3G to REC 2.3.9G (Financial resources) |
Reg 14 |
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REC 2.4.3G to REC 2.4.6G (Suitability) |
In addition to the matters set out in REC 2.4.3G to REC 2.4.6G, the FCA will have regard to whether a key individual has been allocated responsibility for overseeing the auction platform of the UK recognised body. |
Reg 15 |
REC 2.5.3G to REC 2.5.20G (Systems and controls and conflicts) and REC 2.5A (Guidance on Public Interest Disclosure Act: Whistleblowing) |
Reg 16 and 17(2)(f) |
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REC 2.6.26G to REC 2.6.34G (Safeguards for investors) |
Reg 17 |
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REC 2.7.3G to REC 2.7.4G (Access to facilities) |
The FCA shall have regard to whether a RAP provides access to bid at auctions only to those persons eligible to apply for admission to bid under regulation 16 of the UK auctioning regulations. |
Reg 17(2)(a) and 20 |
REC 2.8.3G to REC 2.8.4G (Settlement and clearing services) |
Reg 17(2)(d) and 21 |
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REC 2.9.3G to REC 2.9.4G (Transaction recording) |
Reg 17(2)(e) |
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REC 2.10.3G to REC 2.10.4G (Financial crime and market abuse) |
Reg 17(2)(g) |
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REC 2.11.3G to REC 2.11.4G (Custody) |
REC 2.11.4G is replaced with the following for a RAP: Where a RAP arranges for other persons to provide services for the safeguarding and administration services of assets belonging to users of its facilities, it will also need to satisfy the RAP recognition requirement in regulation 17(2)(h) of the RAP regulations (see REC 2A.2.1UK). |
Reg 17(2)(h) |
REC 2.12.1G to REC 2.12.2G (Availability of relevant information) |
REC 2.12.1G to REC 2.12.2G are replaced with the following for a RAP: In determining whether appropriate arrangements have been made to make relevant information available to persons engaged in dealing in emissions auction products the FCA may have regard to: (1) the extent to which auction bidders are able to obtain information in a timely fashion about the terms of those emissions auction products and the terms on which they will be auctioned, either through accepted channels for dissemination of information or through other regularly and widely accessible communication media; (2) what restrictions, if any, there are on the dissemination of relevant information to auction bidders; and (3) whether relevant information is, or can be, kept to restricted groups of persons in such a way as to facilitate or encourage market abuse. A RAP does not need to maintain its own arrangements for providing information on the terms of emissions auction products to auction bidders where it has made adequate arrangements for other persons to do so on its behalf or there are other effective and reliable arrangements for this purpose. |
Reg 17(2)(c) |
REC 2.13.3G to REC 2.13.6G (Promotion and maintenance of standards) |
Reg 18 |
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REC 2.14.3G to REC 2.14.6G (Rules and consultation) |
Reg 19 |
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REC 2.15.3G to REC 2.15.6G (Discipline) |
Reg 22 |
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REC 2.16.3G to REC 2.16.4G (Complaints |
Reg 23 |