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Which firms are subject to COBS - General Application Rule?

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  • Firms and their ARs in the UK

- Overseas firms in the UK

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Which firms are subject to the COBS - EEA Territorial Scope Rule?

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  • UK firms conducting MiFID business in the UK for UK clients.
  • EEA branches of UK firms doing MiFID business outside that state’s territory
  • EEA firms with a UK branch
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What are the exceptions to the EEA Territorial Scope Rule?

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  • Investment Research
  • Personal Account Dealing
  • Appointed Representatives - Firms is principal and responsible.

Rules apply on home state basis only. UK firms are subject to COBS but EEA firms are not.

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Which activities are captured by COBS rules?

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  • Designated investment business
  • Life insurance
  • Financial Promotions - Accepting Deposits
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Under COBS which clients are captured as professional clients?

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  • Credit institution (bank)
  • Investment Firm
  • Commodities Dealing
  • Local
  • Pension Fund
  • Institutional Investor
  • CIS
  • Insurance Company
  • Large MiFID undertaking
  • Large non-MiFID undertaking
  • Governments and public bodies
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Under COBS which clients are captured as ECP clients?

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All firms that professional clients

CIS under UCITS Directive

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Which activities can be classified under an ECP client?

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  • Executing client orders
  • Receiving and transmitting client orders
  • Ancillary services
  • Arranging
  • Dealing on own account
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Which firms are required by COBS to produce a client agreement?

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  • Designated investment business - retail clients
  • MiFID business
  • Ancillary or third country business - retail and professional
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Which firm(s) are exempt from COBS requirements to produce a client agreement?

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Life insurance company

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Which types of firms need to provide information about the nature and risks of an investment?

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  • MiFID or equivalent third country business - retail and professional
  • Non-MiFID business - retail clients - derivatives, warrants or stock lending activity.
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Which firms need to provide information about the firm?

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  • Retail, professional and ECP clients
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To which types of clients must a firm provide information about managing investments?

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  • Retail clients
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To which types of clients must a firm provide information about the safe custody of assets and money?

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  • Retail, professional and ECP clients
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To which types of clients must a firm provide information about the costs?

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  • Retail, professional and ECP clients
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Which types of firms need to provide information about the compensation schemes available?

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  • MiFID firms
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To which type of sales does the Retail Distribution Review brings rules about advisor charging?

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  • Advised sales - retail products
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Which types of sales are exempt from RDR rules on advisor charging?

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  • Non advised business - execution only and discretionary management of investments
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Which type of business does COBS make provisions for relying on other firms for information?

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  • MiFID business receiving instruction to provide investment or ancillary services through another MiFID firm.
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What does the FCA state should be the approach for non-MiFID firms when relying on information from others in relation to investments?

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  • Reasonable for firms to rely on information provided by an unconnected authorised person or firm unless it is aware of anything that would question the accuracy of the information.
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To which type of firm do the rules on Financial Promotions apply to?

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  • MiFID businesses communicating financial promotions.
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Which types of firms are exempt from the rules on financial promotions?

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  • Firms with a Financial Promotion Order for HM Treasury.
  • Overseas firms communicating with non-UK clients.
  • EEA firms communicating with UK clients.
  • ECPs
  • Promotions subject to the Takeover Code
  • One-off promotions (not cold calls)
  • Personal quotes or illustration forms
  • Unregulated CIS (Promotion of CIS (Exemptions Order) 2001)
  • Credit, a home purchase plan or a home reversion plan.
  • Promotion for a non-investment insurance contract
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Which firms are subject to the prospectus rules?

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  • Firms which offer admission to the trading of transferable securities where a prospectus is required under Section 85 FSMA.
  • Where an election to produce a prospectus has been made under Section 87 FMSA.
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Which types of promotions are subject to the rules on direct offer promotions?

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  • Direct offer promotions in newspapers, trade magazines, TV, direct mail - retail clients
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Which types of firms can rely on promotions approved by another party?

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  • Non-MiFID business - not in breach of rules if communicating a promotion produced by a third party.
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Which types of activities are subject to the Suitability Rules?
- Personal recommendations - Managing investments of a retail client - Manage the assets of a personal or stakeholder or occupational pension scheme.
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Which types of firms need to produce suitability report?
- MiFID - retail and professional clients
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For which types of activities/instruments must a suitability report be produced?
Personal recommendation to trade in the following: - Equities - Derivatives - Structured Products - Unregulated CIS - Regulated CIS (pre-MiFID product) - Investment (if shares in trust savings scheme) - Stocks and Shares ISA - (pre-MiFID product) - Personal Pension or Stakeholder Pension - Income withdrawals or contributions to an annuity. - Entering into pension transfers or opt-outs - Life insurance policy (non-MiFID)
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Which firms/investments are exempt from producing a suitability report?
- Regulated CIS if acting on a discretionary management basis (retail client) - Habitually outside the UK - A friendly society in connection with a small life policy with premiums less than £1 a week of £50 for a year. - Personal recommendation to increase premium contributions to an existing life insurance contract. - To add single contributions to an existing packaged product.
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Which types of activities would the appropriateness rules apply to?
- Non advised sales - MiFID firms providing investment advice - Arranging deals or dealing in warrants and derivatives for retail clients where the firm is aware that the client's application is in response to a direct offer promotion. - Assessing the appropriateness on behalf of other MiFID firms.
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Which types of activities are exempt from the appropriateness rules?
- Service is execution only - Receipt or transmission of orders - Shares on a regulated market - Money market instruments, bonds and other forms of securitised debt - UCITS funds - Non-complex investments
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Which types of firms need to produce a Key Investor Information Document (KIID)?
- Authorised Fund Manager | - UCITS
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When would a firm not have to produce a KIID?
- Another firm has agreed to produce a KIID. - Information in a KIID is featured in another document - Reinsurance and pure protection insurance contracts.
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Which types of products require a Key Features Document (KFD)?
- Child Trust Funds - Cash Deposit ISAs - Packaged Products
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Which types of firms are subject to COBS rules on PRIIPS?
- Retail clients (MiFID) and customers referred to in the Insurance Mediation Directive. - Retail investment companies - Life companies - Discretionary investment management companies - Insurance based investments - Fund managers - Stockbrokers - retail clients - Financial advisers - Firms operating retail distribution platforms
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Who are subject to SYSC rules on conflict of interest?
- Producers of investment research
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When would a firm not be subject to SYSC rules on conflict of interest?
- Persons not in the same group as the firm - The firm does not substantially change the investment research. - The firm does not hold itself out as produced the investment research. - The firm verifies that the producer of the investment research has a conflict of interest policy.
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Which types of firms and clients are subject to the COBS rules on inducements?
- MiFID and non-MiFID firms | - Retail and Professional clients
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Who would need to set up a Research Payments Account?
Producers of research
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What would not count as research?
- Post trade analytics - Data on historic prices that have not be analysed - Seminar fees - Order and execution services - Administration of an RPA
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To who do the rules on best execution apply to?
- Authorised Fund Managers (AFMs) (COBS) - Residual CIS (COBS) - MiFID investment services (MiFID) - UCITS management companies (MiFID)
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Which types of clients/firms are subject to COBS 6 - Safe custody rules?
- Firms safeguarding client assets for retail, professional and ECP clients. - Firms holding financial instruments for MiFID business - Firms safeguarding and administering investments for non-MiFID business.
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Which types of clients/firms are subject to COBS 7 - Client money rules
- Retail, professional and ECP clients - Holding client money - MiFID business - Firms opting to client money rules under MiFID despite being non-MiFID.
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Which firms are exempt from COBS rules on safe custody of assets and client money rules?
- ICVs - Incoming EEA firms - Credit institutions (e.g. bank) under the Banking Consolidation Directive (BCD) - Coins held for their metal value - Money held in connection with a DvP transaction - Money payable to the firm - Business carried out by the firm on behalf of the client in order to achieve best executions - Client transfers of money and assets to the firm

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