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MAR 10.4.3R01/01/2021

(1) 1This rule applies to a UK firm operating a multilateral trading facility or an OTF and a UK branch of a third country investment firm operating a multilateral trading facility or an OTF.(2) A firm must make public and provide to the FCA3a weekly report with the aggregate positions held by the different categories of persons for the different commodity derivatives or emission allowances traded on the trading venue, where those instruments meet the criteria of article 83 of

SUP App 3.6.25G03/01/2018

(1) 2The FCA is5 of the opinion that where a UK firm becomes a member of:66(a) a regulated market that has its registered office or, if it has no registered office, its head office, in another EEA State; or(b) an MTF or OTF5 operated by a MiFID investment firm or a market operator in another EEA State,2the same principles as in the 'characteristic performance' test should apply. Under this test, the fact that a UK firm has a screen displaying the regulated market's or the MTF's

MAR 5A.4.3R03/01/2018

Where a transferable security, which has been admitted to trading on a regulated market, is also traded on an OTF without the consent of the issuer, the firm operating the OTF must not make the issuer subject to any obligation relating to initial, ongoing or ad hoc financial disclosure with regard to that OTF.[Note: article 18(8) of MiFID]

SUP App 3.9.5G03/01/2018

3Table 2: MiFID investment services and activities		Part II RAO Activities13	Part III RAO Investments
	A MiFID investment services and activities
1.	Reception and transmission of orders in relation to one or more financial instruments	Article 252	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
2.	Execution of orders on behalf of clients	Article 14, 21	A Article 76-81,82B,12 83-85, 89
3.	Dealing on own account	Article 14	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
4.	Portfolio management	Article 37 (14, 21, 25 - see Note 1) 2	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
5.	Investment advice	Article 53(1)10	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
6.	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
7.	Placing of financial instruments without a firm commitment basis	Article 21, 25	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
8.	Operation of Multilateral Trading Facilities	Article 25D5 (see Note 2) 5	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
12 9.	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
1.	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
2.	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
3.	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
4.	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
5.	Investment research and financial analysis or other forms of general recommendation relating to transactions in financial instruments	Article 53(1)10, 64 (see Note 4)13	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
6.	Services related to underwriting	Article 25, 53(1)10, 64	Article 76-81, 82B,12 83-85, 89
7.	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
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
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
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).

MAR 10.3.3R03/01/2018

(1) This rule applies to a UK firm operating a multilateral trading facility or an OTF and a UK branch of a third country investment firm operating a multilateral trading facility or an OTF.(2) A firm must apply position management controls which enable an MTF or OTF at least to: (a) monitor the open interest positions of persons;(b) access information, including all relevant documentation, from persons about: (i) the size and purpose of a position or exposure entered into;(ii)

MAR 10.1.2G01/01/2021

(1) The scope of this chapter is as follows: In respect of position limit requirements in MAR 10.2, a commodity derivative position limit established by the FCA in accordance with MAR 10.2.2D(1) applies regardless of the location of the person at the time of entering into the position and the location of execution. [Note: article 57(14)(a) of MiFID](2) In respect of position management controls requirements:(a) the requirements contained or referred to in MAR 10.3 apply to persons

MAR 5AA.1.1R03/01/2018

1Where a firm operates a multilateral system from an establishment in the United Kingdom it must operate it as a multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility.[Note: article 1(7) of MiFID]

REC 2.16A.1UK01/12/2021

Schedule to the Recognition Requirements Regulations, Paragraph 9A-9H3

1(1)	[A UK RIE] operating a multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility3 must also operate a regulated market3.
(2)	An exchange5 operating a multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility3 must comply with those requirements of-
	(a)	any provisions of the law of the United Kingdom relied on by the United Kingdom before IP completion day to implement Chapter 1 of Title II of the markets in financial instruments directive—5 3
		(i)		as they have effect on 1 December 20216, in the case of rules made by the FCA under the Act; and5
		(ii)		as amended from time to time, in all other cases;5
	(b)	any EU regulation originally made under Chapter 1 of the markets in financial instruments directive which is retained direct EU legislation, or any subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978) made under those provisions on or after IP completion day;5 3
	which are applicable to a market operator3 5operating such a facility.
(3)	The requirements of this paragraph do not apply for the purposes of section 292(3)(a) of the Act (requirements for overseas investment exchanges and overseas clearing houses).
(4)3	A [UK RIE] operating a multilateral trading facility or organised trading facility must provide the FCA with a detailed description of -
	(a)	the functioning of the multilateral trading facility or organised trading facility;
	(b)	any links to another trading venue owned by the same [UK RIE] or to a systematic internaliser owned by the same exchange; and
	(c)	a list of the facility’s members, participants and users.
[Note:MiFID ITS 19 prescribes the content and format of the description of the functioning of a MTF or OTF to be provided to the FCA]3
(5)3	Any multilateral trading facility or an organised trading facility operated by the [UK RIE] must have at least three materially active members or users who each have the opportunity to interact with all the others in respect of price formation.
Paragraph 9B – Specific requirements for multilateral trading facilities: execution of orders3
(1)3	A [UK RIE] must have non-discretionary rules for the execution of orders on a multilateral trading facility operated by it.
(2)3	A [UK RIE] must not on a multilateral trading facility operated by it -
	(a)	execute any client orders against its proprietary capital; or
	(b)	engage in matched principal trading.
Paragraph 9C – Specific requirements for multilateral trading facilities: access to a facility3
The rules of the [UK RIE] about access to, or membership of, a multilateral trading facility regulated market operated by it must permit the [UK RIE] to give access to or admit to membership to (as the case may be) only -3
	(a)	an investment firm which has permission under Part 4A of the Act to carry on a regulated activity which is an investment service or activity5;
	(b)	a qualifying credit institution that has Part 4A permission to carry on the regulated activity of accepting deposits.5
	(c)	a person who –
		(i)	is of sufficient good repute;
		(ii)	has a sufficient level of trading ability, and competence and experience;
		(iii)	where applicable, has adequate organisational arrangements; and
		(iv)	has sufficient resources for the role it is to perform, taking account of the financial arrangements the [UK RIE] has established in order to guarantee the adequate settlement transactions.
Paragraph 9D – Specific requirements for multilateral trading facilities: disclosure3
(1)3	The rules of the [UK RIE] must provide that where it, without obtaining the consent of the issuer, admits to trading on a multilateral trading facility operated by it a transferable security which has been admitted to trading on a regulated market, the [UK RIE] may not require the issuer of that security to demonstrate compliance with the disclosure obligations.
(2)3	The [UK RIE] must maintain arrangements to provide sufficient publicly available information (or satisfy itself that sufficient information is publicly available) to enable users of a multilateral trading facility operated by it to form investment judgements, taking into account both the nature of the users and the types of instruments traded.
(3)3	In this paragraph, “the disclosure obligations” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9ZB.
Paragraph 9E – SME growth markets3
(1)3	A [UK RIE] operating an SME growth market5 (an “exchange-operated SME growth market”) must comply with rules made by the FCA for the purposes of this paragraph as they have effect on IP completion day5.
	[Note:REC 2.16A.1D]4
(2)3	An exchange-operated SME growth market must not admit to trading a financial instrument which is already admitted to trading on another SME growth market unless the issuer of the instrument has been informed of the proposed admission to trading and has not objected.
(3)3	Where an exchange-operated SME growth market exchange admits a financial instrument to trading in the circumstances of paragraph (2), that exchange-operated SME growth market may not require the issuer of the financial instrument to demonstrate compliance with -
	(a)	any obligation relating to corporate governance, or
	(b)	the disclosure obligations.
(4)3	In this paragraph, “the disclosure obligations” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9ZB.
Paragraph 9F – Specific requirements for organised trading facilities: execution of orders3
(1)3	[A UK RIE] operating an organised trading facility must -
	(a)	execute orders on that facility on a discretionary basis in accordance with sub-paragraph (4);
	(b)	not execute any client orders on that facility against its proprietary capital or the proprietary capital of any entity that is part of the same group or legal person as the [UK RIE] unless in accordance with sub-paragraph (2);
	(c)	not operate a systematic internaliser within the same legal entity;
	(d)	ensure that the organised trading facility does not connect with a systematic internaliser in a way which enables orders in an organised trading facility and orders or quotes in a systematic internaliser to interact; and
	(e)	ensure that the organised trading facility does not connect with another organised trading facility in a way which enables orders in different organised trading facilities to interact.
(2)3	A [UK RIE] may only engage in -
	(a)	matched principal trading on an organised trading facility operated by it in respect of-
		(i)	bonds,
		(ii)	structured finance products,
		(iii)	emission allowances,
		(iv)	derivatives which have not been declared subject to the clearing obligation in accordance with Article 5 of the EMIR regulation,
		where the client has consented to that; or
	(b)	dealing on own account on an organised trading facility operated by it, otherwise than in accordance with sub-paragraph (a), in respect of sovereign debt instruments for which there is not a liquid market.
(3)3	If the [UK RIE] engages in matched principal trading in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(a) it must establish arrangements to ensure compliance with the definition of matched principal trading5.
(4)3	The discretion which the [UK RIE] must exercise in executing a client order may only be the discretion mentioned in sub-paragraph (5) or in sub-paragraph (6) or both.
(5)3	The first discretion is whether to place or retract an order on the organised trading facility.
(6)3	The second discretion is whether to match a specific client order with other orders available on the organised trading facility at a given time, provided the exercise of such discretion is in compliance with specific instructions received from the client and in accordance with the [UK RIE’s] obligations under—5
	(a)			section 11.2A of the Conduct of Business sourcebook;5
	(b)			Articles 64 to 66 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 of 25 April 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards organisational requirements and operating conditions for investment firms and defined terms for the purposes of that Directive;5
	(c)			[deleted]6 5
	(d)			[deleted]6 5
(7)3	Where the organised trading facility crosses client orders the [UK RIE] may decide if, when and how much of two or more orders it wants to match within the system.
(8)3	Subject to the requirements of this paragraph, with regard to a system that arranges transactions in non-equities, the [UK RIE] may facilitate negotiation between clients so as to bring together two or more comparable potentially trading interests in a transaction.
(9)3	The [UK RIE] must comply with rules made by the FCA as they have effect on 1 December 20216 as to how Articles 24, 25, 27 and 28 of the markets in financial instruments directive apply to its operation of an organised trading facility. 5
(10)3	Nothing in this paragraph prevents a [UK RIE] from engaging an investment firm to carry out market making on an independent basis on an organised trading facility operated by the [UK RIE]provided the investment firm does not have close links with the [UK RIE].
(11)3	In this paragraph - “close links” has the meaning given in Article 2(1)(21) of the markets in financial instruments regulation;5 “investment firm” has the meaning given in Article 2(1A) of the markets in financial instruments regulation;5 “non-equities” means bonds, structured finance products, emissions allowances and derivatives traded on a trading venue to which Article 8(1) of the markets in financial instrument regulation applies.
Paragraph 9G – Specific requirements for organised trading facilities: disclosure3
(1)3	The rules of the [UK RIE] must provide that where it, without obtaining the consent of the issuer, admits to trading on an organised trading facility operated by it a transferable security which has been admitted to trading on a regulated market, the [UK RIE] may not require the issuer of that security to demonstrate compliance with the disclosure obligations.
(2)3	The [UK RIE] must maintain arrangements to provide sufficient publicly available information (or satisfy itself that sufficient information is publicly available) to enable users of the organised trading facility operated by it to form investment judgements, taking into account both the nature of the users and the types of instruments traded.
(3)3	In this paragraph, “the disclosure obligations” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9ZB.
Paragraph 9H – Specific requirements for organised trading facilities: FCA request for information3
(1)3	A [UK RIE] must, when requested to do so, provide the FCA with a detailed explanation in respect of an organised trading facility operated by it, or such a facility it proposes to operate, of -
	(a)	why the organised trading facility does not correspond to and cannot operate as a multilateral trading facility, a regulated market or a systematic internaliser;
	(b)	how discretion will exercised in executing client orders, and in particular when an order to the organized trading facility may be retracted and when and how two or more client orders will be matched within the facility; and
	(c)	its use of matched principal trading.
(2)3	Any information required under sub-paragraph (1) must be provided to the FCA in the manner which it considers appropriate.

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