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Dear Client:
SFTR Information Statement
You may be aware that the EU Securities Financing Transactions Regulation
("SFTR") sets out certain
information requirements regarding the reuse of financial instruments
received under a collateral
arrangement, as more particularly set out in Article 15 of SFTR.
Deutsche Bank AG, any of its branches and members of the group of companies
controlled by Deutsche
Bank AG, including Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (together, "Deutsche Bank")
may have entered into or
may, after the date of this letter, enter into certain collateral
arrangements with you as counterparty or as
agent, investment manager or similar ("Agent") for a counterparty. As such,
please find attached an
Information Statement intended to inform you of certain risks and
consequences of the reuse of financial
instruments received as collateral by Deutsche Bank. This Information
Statement is also accessible at:
https://www.db.com/sftr and may be updated from time to time.
We kindly ask you to carefully read the Information Statement. If you act as
an Agent for a counterparty
which has provided or may provide financial instruments as collateral to
Deutsche Bank, we have
assumed that you formally act for such counterparty and will forward this
letter and the Information
Statement to such counterparty.
No response is required from you but if you have any questions regarding
this matter, please do not
hesitate to contact your Deutsche Bank Relationship Manager or Client
Advisor. It is your responsibility
to ensure compliance with the requirements of any applicable laws and
regulations. Deutsche Bank
accepts no obligation or liability in this regard, and makes no
representation or warranty as to the
compliance of this letter with the requirements of any law or regulation.
Yours faithfully
Patrick Harris
Zia Memon
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
"Deutsche Bank" means Deutsche Bank AG and its affiliated companies.
Deutsche Bank Wealth Management refers
to the wealth management activities for high-net-worth clients around the
world conducted by Deutsche Bank AG or
its subsidiaries. Brokerage services are offered through Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc., a broker-dealer and
registered investment adviser, which conducts investment banking and
securities activities in the United States.
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Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. is a member of FINRA, NYSE and SIPC. Lending
and banking services are offered
through Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, member FDIC, and other members
of the Deutsche Bank Group.
02016 Deutsche Bank AG. All rights reserved. 024238 070816
Information Statement in accordance with Article 15 of the Securities
Financing Transactions
Regulation
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1. Introduction
You have received this Information Statement because you have entered into
or may hereafter enter
into one or more title transfer collateral arrangements or security
collateral arrangements containing a
right of use (together, "Collateral Arrangements") with us.
This Information Statement has been prepared to comply with Article 15 of
the Securities Financing
Transactions Regulation by informing you of the general risks and
consequences that may be involved
in consenting to a right of use of collateral provided under a security
collateral arrangement or of
concluding a title transfer collateral arrangement ("Re-use Risks and
Consequences"). The
information required to be provided to you pursuant to Article 15 of the
Securities Financing
Transactions Regulation relates only to Re-use Risks and Consequences, and
so this Information
Statement does not address any other risks or consequences that may arise as
a result of your
particular circumstances or as a result of the terms of particular
Transactions.
This Information Statement is not intended to be, and should not be relied
upon as, legal, financial, tax,
accounting or other advice. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, we
are not providing you with
any such legal, financial, tax, accounting or other advice and you should
consult your own advisors for
advice on consenting to a right of use of collateral provided under a
security collateral arrangement or
on concluding a title transfer collateral arrangement, including the impact
on your business and the
requirements of, and results of, entering into any Transaction.
Appendix 2 sets out an indicative (but not exhaustive) list of types of
agreement that may constitute
Collateral Arrangements.
Appendix 3 sets out alternative disclosures that are applicable if we are
(1) a U.S. broker-dealer or
futures commission merchant or (2) a U.S. bank or U.S. branch or agency
office of a non-U.S. bank.
In this Information Statement:
-- "we", "our", "ours" and "us" refer to the provider of this Information
Statement that may conduct
Transactions with you (or, where we are acting on behalf of another person,
including where
that person is an affiliate, that person);
-- "you", "your" and "yours" refer to each of the persons to which this
Information Statement is
delivered or addressed in connection with entering into, continuing,
executing or agreeing upon
the terms of Transactions with us (or, where you are acting on behalf of
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other persons, each of
those persons);
-- "right of use" means any right we have to use, in our own name and on our
own account or the
account of another counterparty, financial instruments received by us by way
of collateral
under a security collateral arrangement between you and us;
-- "Securities Financing Transactions Regulation" means Regulation (EU)
2015/2365 of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on transparency
of securities
financing transactions and of reuse and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012
(as amended
from time to time);
-- "Transaction" means a transaction entered into, executed or agreed
between you and us under
which you agree to provide financial instruments as collateral, either under
a security collateral
arrangement or under a title transfer collateral arrangement;
-- "financial instruments", "security collateral arrangement" and "title
transfer collateral
arrangement" have the meaning given to those terms in the Securities
Financing Transactions
Regulation. These are set out in Appendix 1 for reference.
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Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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2. Re-use Risks and Consequences
a) Where you provide financial instruments to us under a title transfer
collateral arrangement
or if we exercise a right of use in relation to any financial instruments
that you have
provided to us by way of collateral under a security collateral arrangement
containing a
right of use, we draw your attention to the following Re-use Risks and
Consequences:1
i. your rights, including any proprietary rights that you may have had, in
those
financial instruments will be replaced by an unsecured contractual claim for
delivery of equivalent financial instruments subject to the terms of the
relevant
Collateral Arrangement;
ii. those financial instruments will not be held by us in accordance with
client asset
rules, and, if they had benefited from any client asset protection rights,
those
protection rights will not apply (for example, the financial instruments
will not be
segregated from our assets and will not be held subject to a trust);
iii.
in the event of our insolvency or default under the relevant agreement your
claim
against us for delivery of equivalent financial instruments will not be
secured and
will be subject to the terms of the relevant Collateral Arrangement and
applicable
law and, accordingly, you may not receive such equivalent financial
instruments or
recover the full value of the financial instruments (although your exposure
may be
reduced to the extent that you have liabilities to us which can be set off
or netted
against or discharged by reference to our obligation to deliver equivalent
financial
instruments to you);
iv. in the event that a resolution authority exercises its powers under any
relevant
resolution regime in relation to us any rights you may have to take any
action
against us, such as to terminate our agreement, may be subject to a stay by
the
relevant resolution authority and:
a) your claim for delivery of equivalent financial instruments may be reduced
(in part or in full) or converted into equity; or
b) a transfer of assets or liabilities may result in your claim on us, or
our claim
on you, being transferred to different entities
although you may be protected to the extent that the exercise of resolution
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powers
is restricted by the availability of set-off or netting rights;
v. as a result of your ceasing to have a proprietary interest in those
financial
instruments you will not be entitled to exercise any voting, consent or
similar rights
attached to the financial instruments, and even if we have agreed to exercise
voting, consent or similar rights attached to any equivalent financial
instruments in
accordance with your instructions or the relevant Collateral Arrangement
entitles
you to notify us that the equivalent financial instruments to be delivered
by us to
you should reflect your instructions with respect to the subject matter of
such vote,
consent or exercise of rights, in the event that we do not hold and are not
able to
readily obtain equivalent financial instruments, we may not be able to comply
(subject to any other solution that may have been agreed between the
parties);
1 As noted above, Appendix 3 sets forth the risks and consequences that may
arise in connection with re-use of
financial instruments by a U.S. broker-dealer, U.S. futures commission
merchant, or U.S. bank or U.S. branch or
agency office of a non-U.S. bank.
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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vi. in the event that we are not able to readily obtain equivalent financial
instruments
to deliver to you at the time required: you may be unable to fulfil your
settlement
obligations under a hedging or other transaction you have entered into in
relation
to those financial instruments; a counterparty, exchange or other person may
exercise a right to buy-in the relevant financial instruments; and you may be
unable to exercise rights or take other action in relation to those financial
instruments;
vii. subject to any express agreement between you and us, we will have no
obligation
to inform you of any corporate events or actions in relation to those
financial
instruments;
viii. you will not be entitled to receive any dividends, coupon or other
payments,
interests or rights (including securities or property accruing or offered at
any time)
payable in relation to those financial instruments, although the express
written
terms of the relevant Collateral Arrangement or Transaction may provide for
you to
receive or be credited with a payment by reference to such dividend, coupon
or
other payment (a "manufactured payment");
ix. the provision of title transfer collateral to us, our exercise of a
right of use in
respect of any financial collateral provided to us by you and the delivery
by us to
you of equivalent financial instruments may give rise to tax consequences
that
differ from the tax consequences that would have otherwise applied in
relation to
the holding by you or by us for your account of those financial instruments;
x. where you receive or are credited with a manufactured payment, your tax
treatment may differ from your tax treatment in respect of the original
dividend,
coupon or other payment in relation to those financial instruments.
b. Where we provide you with clearing services (whether directly as a
clearing member or
otherwise), we draw your attention to the following additional Re-use Risks
and
Consequences:
i.
if we are declared to be in default by an EU central counterparty ("EU CCP")
the
EU CCP will try to transfer ("port") your transactions and assets to another
clearing broker or, if this cannot be achieved, the EU CCP will terminate
your
transactions;
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ii.
in the event that other parties in the clearing structure default (e.g., a
central
counterparty, a custodian, settlement agent or any clearing broker that we
may
instruct) you may not receive all of your assets back and your rights may
differ
depending on the law of the country in which the party is incorporated
(which may
not necessarily be English law) and the specific protections that that party
has put
in place;
iii.
in some cases a central counterparty may benefit from legislation which
protects
actions it may take under its default rules in relation to a defaulting
clearing
member (e.g., to port transactions and related assets) from being challenged
under relevant insolvency law.
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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Appendix 1
Defined terms for the purposes of the Securities Financing Transactions
Regulation:
"financial instrument" means the instruments set out in Section C of Annex I
to Directive 2014/65/EU on
markets in financial instruments, and includes without limitation:
1) Transferable securities;
2) Money-market instruments;
3) Units in collective investment undertakings.
"title transfer collateral arrangement" means an arrangement, including
repurchase agreements, under
which a collateral provider transfers full ownership of financial collateral
to a collateral taker for the
purpose of securing or otherwise covering the performance of relevant
financial obligations.
"security collateral arrangement" means an arrangement under which a
collateral provider provides
financial collateral by way of security in favour of, or to, a collateral
taker, and where the full ownership of
the financial collateral remains with the collateral provider when the
security right is established.
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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Appendix 2
We have set out below examples of the types of agreements to which this
Information Statement applies.
These examples are for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied
upon as a legal determination
of the characterisation of each agreement. The fact that an agreement is
grouped with Title Transfer
Collateral Agreements below does not preclude its characterisation as a
Security Collateral Arrangement
with a right of use and vice versa. Moreover, the characterization of an
agreement may be different under
U.S. and European law.
Title Transfer Collateral Arrangement
Such arrangements may include without limitation:
-- Overseas Securities Lender's Agreement
-- Global Master Securities Lending Agreement
-- Global Master Repurchase Agreement
- SIFMA Master Repurchase Agreement
-- An ISDA Master Agreement incorporating an English Law ISDA Credit Support
Annex
-- An ISDA/FIA Client Cleared OTC Derivatives Addendum which provides for
title transfer
collateral arrangements and in particular where entered into in connection
with an English law
governed ISDA Master Agreement which includes the English law CSA Collateral
Terms as set
out in Appendix 1 thereto, or when entered into in connection with a
relevant FIA client clearing
agreement
-- Master Gilt Edged Stock Lending Agreement
-- Master Equity and Fixed Interest Stock Lending Agreement
-- Prime brokerage agreements which provide for title transfer collateral
arrangements
- FIA client clearing agreements for exchange traded and other cleared
derivatives which
provide for title transfer collateral arrangements
- FIA Clearing Module which provides for title transfer collateral
arrangements
-- Any bespoke agreements granting security by way of transfer of title to
the secured party
Security Collateral Arrangement containing a right of use
Such arrangements may include without limitation:
-- An ISDA Master Agreement incorporating a New York Law ISDA Credit Support
Annex
-- An ISDA/FIA Client Cleared OTC Derivatives Addendum which provides for
security collateral
arrangements and in particular where entered into in connection a New York
law governed
ISDA Master Agreement including the New York law CSA Collateral Terms as set
out in
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Appendix 2 thereto, or when entered into in connection with a relevant FIA
client clearing
agreement
-- An ISDA Master Agreement in respect of which an English Law ISDA Credit
Support Deed
incorporating a right of use is a credit support document
-- Prime brokerage agreements which provide for the creation of security
over financial
instruments
- FIA client clearing agreements for exchange traded and other cleared
derivatives which
provide for a creation of security over financial instruments
- FIA Clearing Module which provides for a creation of security over
financial instruments
-- Security arrangements in relation to margin loan documentation and
associated custody
agreements
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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- SIFMA Master Securities Lending Agreement (this agreement is generally a
security collateral
arrangement with respect to collateral delivered to the lender; the borrower
takes title to the
borrowed securities)
-- Any bespoke security agreements creating security in respect of financial
instruments with
rehypothecation rights or a right of use over the financial instruments in
favour of the secured
party
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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Appendix 3
U.S. BROKER-DEALER, U.S. FUTURES COMMISSION MERCHANT,
or U.S. BANK:
This Appendix describes the Re-use Risks and Consequences that may arise
under Collateral
Arrangements with a bank chartered
branch or agency office of a
non-U.S. bank (any such bank, branch,
organization"), a U.S. entity
that is registered as a broker-dealer with
Commission ("brokerdealer"),
or a U.S. entity that is registered as a
the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission ("FCM"). A single U.S.
regulated, as both a broker-dealer
and an FCM, but it remains subject to
respect to its separate
activities.
U.S. law draws a distinction
broker-dealer or FCM and
treated as customer assets ("Customer Assets"), financial instruments held
by a U.S. banking
organization in a trust or custodial capacity ("Custodial Assets"), and
financial instruments delivered or
pledged to a U.S. banking organization, broker-dealer, or FCM in a principal
(non-customer) capacity
("Non-Customer Assets"). Customer Assets held by a broker-dealer or FCM are
subject to mandatory
segregation requirements under the rules of the SEC and CFTC, respectively,
and special-purpose
insolvency regimes under which segregated assets, i.e., Customer Assets and
cash required to be held
in segregated accounts, are distributed to customers. Custodial Assets held
by a U.S. banking
organization are generally segregated on an account- or customer-specific
basis, while in some
circumstances broker-dealers and FCMs are permitted to segregate Customer
Assets on an omnibus
basis for all customers.
Financial instruments held in a securities account at a broker-dealer or
delivered to an FCM as margin (or
"performance bond") for a cleared derivative generally constitute Customer
Assets. On the other hand,
securities delivered to us under a repurchase or securities lending
agreement generally do not constitute
Customer Assets. If, with respect to Customer Assets received by us as a
broker-dealer, you separately
agree to lend financial instruments to us under a securities lending
agreement, or agree to sell financial
instruments to us under a repurchase agreement, then the financial
instruments are removed from your
under U.S. federal or state law, a U.S.
or agency office, a "U.S. banking
the U.S. Securities and Exchange
futures commission merchant with
entity can operate, and be
separate regulatory requirements with
between financial instruments delivered to a
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account and are no longer eligible for customer protection.
instruments delivered to us
under such transactions are Non-Customer Assets.
whether a financial
instrument pledged or delivered
legal advice.
With respect to Customer Assets
your CFTC-regulated
transactions, we generally cannot
margin, guarantee or secure
those transactions. That is, we may
secured accounts established
by us with banks, clearing houses and
via rules or written
agreements, that such Customer Assets
customers and can be utilized
solely to margin, guarantee or
FCM may, pursuant to
repurchase agreements, substitute such segregated Customer Assets, subject
to very strict CFTC
regulations, including the requirement that such substitution is made on a
"delivery versus delivery" basis,
and the market value of the substituted securities is at least equal to that
of the Customer Assets being
substituted. To the extent segregated assets were found to be insufficient
to satisfy customer claims in
full, customers would continue to have a claim against the proprietary
assets of the FCM.
With respect to Customer Assets received by us as a broker-dealer in
connection with your SEC regulated
transactions, we generally can use such Customer Assets only with your
consent and subject
to regulatory usage limits that are imposed both at the account level (by
reference to the amount of your
obligations to us) and across all customers (by reference to the amount of
all customer obligations to us).
The SEC requires that broker-dealers perform a daily valuation of
Assets (including related
customer obligations) and maintain in segregation either Customer
cash or other high-grade
assets such that the value of segregated assets
value of all Customer Assets
net of customer obligations to the broker-dealer. Further, to the extent
segregated assets were to be
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Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
secure
Customer
Assets or
will at all times exceed
Any financial
If you are uncertain
to us is a Customer Asset, please obtain
received by us as an FCM in connection with
use such Customer Assets other than to
transfer such assets to segregated or
clearing brokers, which acknowledge,
are the property of the FCM's
customer transactions. In addition, an
the
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Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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insufficient to satisfy customer claims in full, customers would continue to
have a claim against the
proprietary assets of the broker-dealer.
Notwithstanding point (b) of paragraph 2 of Article 15 of the Securities
Financing Transactions
Regulation, when we use your Customer Assets, they continue to be included
on your account statement
reflecting their status as Customer Assets, and we may not identify to you
the financial instruments that
we have used.
If we are a broker-dealer or FCM, our exercise of our right to use Customer
Assets has no effect on the
nature of your property interest in the financial instruments or on your
rights as a customer in the event of
our insolvency. The amount of your customer claim in a broker-dealer or FCM
insolvency proceeding is a
function of the value of assets held in your account and the amount of your
obligations to us, if any. In a
broker-dealer or FCM insolvency proceeding, all customers generally receive
the same pro rata share of
their claims based on Customer Assets (and customer cash), regardless of
whether their financial
instruments were subject to use or were used by the broker-dealer or FCM.
(In the case of an FCM
insolvency, customers are separated into several account classes based on
product type, and recoveries
may vary across account classes. Customers within the same account class
receive the same pro rata
share of all customer claims within that class.)
In the insolvency of a U.S. banking organization, Custodial Assets are
generally returned to their owners
to the extent such assets are available for distribution. Your consent to
our use of your financial
instruments may prevent them from being treated as Custodial Assets, and it
may jeopardize your right to
obtain their return in the event of our insolvency.
Collateral Arrangements with respect to Non-Customer Assets can take a
variety of forms with differing
legal characterizations and practical consequences. Generally, a title
transfer collateral arrangement
entitles you only to a creditor claim for the return of your financial
instruments. Under a security collateral
arrangement, in some cases you may retain a property interest in the
financial instruments delivered to us
as collateral, but your property right (if any) may be subject to superior
rights of our creditors or of a party
to which we have transferred the financial instruments. Additionally, in the
event of our insolvency, you
may lose your property interest if you are unable to identify your property
as distinct from our other
assets, and our use of your financial instruments may impair your ability to
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do so.
This Appendix is not intended to provide a complete description of the
treatment of Collateral
Arrangements under U.S. law or the U.S. customer protection system, and you
should not rely on it for
that purpose.
If we are a U.S. broker-dealer, U.S. FCM, or U.S. banking organization,
Sections 2(a)(i) through (v) of the
Information Statement do not apply. Instead, where you provide financial
instruments to us under a title
transfer collateral arrangement or if we exercise a right of use in relation
to any financial instruments that
you have provided to us by way of collateral under a security collateral
arrangement containing a right of
use, we draw your attention to the following Re-use Risks and Consequences:
Risks in Connection with Financial Instruments That Are Customer Assets
If we are a U.S. broker-dealer or FCM and your financial instruments are
Customer Assets, then we
are permitted to use your financial instruments (i) to post as margin in
respect of CFTC-regulated
products with a clearing organization or other intermediary, and (ii) as
otherwise permitted within the
limits imposed by U.S. customer protection rules. When we use your Customer
Assets, we may not
hold them in segregation or trust, depending on the applicable U.S.
regulation, but we continue to
report them on your account statement reflecting their status as Customer
Assets. As a result of our
use of your Customer Assets, those assets are subject to the Re-use Risks
and Consequences listed
in Sections 2(a)(vi) through (x) of the Information Statement. In addition,
if we provide you with
clearing services (whether directly as a clearing member or otherwise),
Customer Assets are subject to
the Re-use Risks and Consequences listed in Section 2(b) of the Information
Statement.
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Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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Moreover, as a result of our use of those financial instruments (including,
in some cases, your ceasing
to have a proprietary interest in those financial instruments), or the
failure of a third party to deliver to
us financial instruments, you may not be entitled to exercise any voting,
consent or similar rights
attached to the financial instruments, and even if we have agreed to
exercise voting, consent or similar
rights attached to any equivalent financial instruments in accordance with
your instructions or the
relevant Collateral Arrangement entitles you to notify us that the
equivalent financial instruments to be
delivered by us to you should reflect your instructions with respect to the
subject matter of such vote,
consent or exercise of rights, in the event that we do not hold and are not
able to readily obtain
equivalent financial instruments, we may not be able to comply (subject to
any other solution that may
have been agreed between the parties).
However, our right to use Customer Assets and our actual use of Customer
Assets do not present any
insolvency-related Re-use Risks and Consequences. This is because, as
described above, in the event
of our insolvency your claim for Customer Assets would be calculated
according to a formula that does
not take our use of assets into account.
In the event that a receiver, conservator or other insolvency official
exercises its powers under an
insolvency regime in relation to us, any rights you may have to take any
action against us, such as to
terminate our agreement, may be subject to a stay by the relevant authority
and a transfer of assets or
liabilities may result in your claim on us, or our claim on you, being
transferred to different entities.
However, this risk exists regardless of whether we have used your financial
instruments or you have
consented to their use.
Risks in Connection with Financial Instruments That Are Non-Customer Assets
Non-Customer Assets are not protected by the U.S. customer protection rules
that apply to Customer
Assets. If we are a U.S. broker-dealer or FCM and your financial instruments
are Non-Customer
Assets, or we are a U.S. banking organization, and you have granted us a
right to use your financial
instruments, then we will not hold such financial instruments in segregation
or trust. Your rights,
including any proprietary rights that you may have had, in those financial
instruments may be replaced
by a contractual claim (which would be unsecured unless otherwise agreed)
for the delivery of
equivalent financial instruments subject to the terms of the relevant
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Collateral Arrangement. As a result
of our use of your Non-Customer Assets, those assets are subject to the Re-
use Risks and
Consequences listed in Sections 2(a)(vi) through (x) of the Information
Statement.
If we are a U.S. banking organization, as a result of your consent to our
use of your financial
instruments, those financial instruments may not be held by us in accordance
with the rules that apply
to Custodial Assets, and, if they had benefited from any protections as
Custodial Assets, those
protection rights may not apply (for example, the financial instruments will
not be segregated from our
assets and will not be held subject to a trust).
Moreover, as a result of our use of financial instruments (including, in
some cases, your ceasing to
have a proprietary interest in those financial instruments), or the failure
of a third party to deliver to us
financial instruments, you may not be entitled to exercise any voting,
consent or similar rights attached
to the financial instruments, and even if we have agreed to exercise voting,
consent or similar rights
attached to any equivalent financial instruments in accordance with your
instructions or the relevant
Collateral Arrangement entitles you to notify us that the equivalent
financial instruments to be delivered
by us to you should reflect your instructions with respect to the subject
matter of such vote, consent or
exercise of rights, in the event that we do not hold and are not able to
readily obtain equivalent
financial instruments, we may not be able to comply (subject to any other
solution that may have been
agreed between the parties).
In the event of our insolvency your rights in financial instruments that we
have used may be replaced
by a general claim (which would be unsecured unless otherwise agreed)
against us for equivalent
financial instruments or the value of those financial instruments, and you
may not receive such
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the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
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equivalent financial instruments or recover the full value of the financial
instruments (although your
exposure may be reduced to the extent that we have provided collateral to
you or you have liabilities to
us which can be set off or netted against or discharged by reference to our
obligation to deliver
equivalent financial instruments to you). To the extent you retain a
property interest in financial assets
we have used, our use of the financial instruments may give other parties
superior rights in them and
may interfere with your ability to identify the financial instruments for
the purpose of obtaining their
return.
In the event that a receiver, conservator or other insolvency official
exercises its powers under an
insolvency regime in relation to us, any rights you may have to take any
action against us, such as to
terminate our agreement, may be subject to a stay by the relevant authority
and a transfer of assets or
liabilities may result in your claim on us, or our claim on you, being
transferred to different entities.
However, this risk exists regardless of whether we have used your financial
instruments or you have
consented to their use.
Copyright 0 2016 by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
Inc., the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association, the International Securities Lending Association and
SIFMA. Neither the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.,
the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, the
Futures Industry Association, Inc., the International Capital Market
Association and the International Securities Lending Association
nor SIFMA, has reviewed or endorsed any modifications that may have been
made to this document.
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