Related provisions for BIPRU 13.5.5
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 FCA1 appropriately anything relating to the firm of which that regulator would reasonably expect notice. |
212 Consumer Duty |
A firm must act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers. |
[Editor’s note: The text of this provision has been moved to SYSC 25 Annex 1G]4
Information to be included in the UCITS Prospectus and AIF disclosure to investors: |
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General description of the SFTs and total return swaps used by the collective investment undertaking and the rationale for their use. |
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Overall data to be reported for each type of SFTs and total return swaps |
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Types of assets that can be subject to them. |
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Maximum proportion of AUM that can be subject to them. |
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Expected proportion of AUM that will be subject to each of them. |
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Criteria used to select counterparties (including legal status, country of origin, minimum credit rating). |
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Acceptable collateral: description of acceptable collateral with regard to asset types, issuer, maturity, liquidity as well as the collateral diversification and correlation policies. |
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Collateral valuation: description of the collateral valuation methodology used and its rationale, and whether daily mark-to-market and daily variation margins are used. |
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Risk management: description of the risks linked to SFTs and total return swaps as well as risks linked to collateral management, such as operational, liquidity, counterparty, custody and legal risks and, where applicable, the risks arising from its reuse. |
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Specification of how assets subject to SFTs and total return swaps and collateral received are safe-kept (e.g. with fund custodian). |
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Specification of any restrictions (regulatory or self-imposed) on reuse of collateral. |
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Policy on sharing of return generated by SFTs and total return swaps: description of the proportions of the revenue generated by SFTs and total return swaps that is returned to the collective investment undertaking, and of the costs and fees assigned to the manager or third parties (e.g. the agent lender). The prospectus or disclosure to investors shall also indicate if these are related parties to the manager. |
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[Note: section B of the annex to the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation and article 3 for relevant definitions.] [Note: AUM means assets under management.] |