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Article 14 — Systematic internalisers for structured finance products (Article 4(1)(20) of Directive 2014/65/EU)

Financial servicesLevel 2Delegated RegulationMiFID IIIn forceOfficial source

An investment firm shall be considered to be a systematic internaliser in accordance with Article 4(1)(20) of Directive 2014/65/EU in respect of all structured finance products belonging to a class of structured finance products issued by the same entity or by any entity within the same group where, in relation to any such structured finance product, it internalises according to the following criteria:

14(a)
(a)on a frequent and systematic basis in a structured finance product for which there is a liquid market as defined in Article 2(1)(17)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 where during the past 6 months:
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14(a)(i)
(i)the number of OTC transactions carried out by it on own account when executing client orders is equal to or larger than 4 % of the total number of transactions in the relevant structured finance product executed in the Union on any trading venue or OTC during the same period;
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14(a)(ii)
(ii)the OTC transactions carried out by it on own account when executing client orders in the relevant financial instrument take place on average once a week;
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14(b)
(b)on a frequent and systematic basis in a structured finance product for which there is not a liquid market as defined in Article 2(1)(17)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 where during the past 6 months the OTC transactions carried out by it on own account when executing client orders take place on average once a week;
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14(c)
(c)on a substantial basis in a structured finance product where the size of OTC trading carried out by it on own account when executing client orders is, during the past 6 months, equal to or larger than any of the following:
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14(c)(i)
(i)30 % of the total turnover in that structured finance product executed by the investment firm on own account or on behalf of clients and executed on a trading venue or OTC;
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14(c)(ii)
(ii)2,25 % of the total turnover in that structured finance product executed in the Union on a trading venue or OTC.
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