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===Integrated [[broker-dealer]]s in; standalone [[broker-dealer]]s out===
If your bank includes a [[broker-dealer]], or investment bank, within the same legal entity as a deposit taking institution — like UBS AG or Barclays Bank PLC does, for example — you are a [[Bank/Credit Institution]]. If you are a specialised [[broker-dealer]] or [[investment bank]] without its own built-in deposit-taking bank — like Goldman Sachs International — you are an [[Investment Firm/Broker-Dealer]].
===Say what? European ''Community''?===
===Say what? European ''Community''?===
Details freaks will have immediately spotted a reference to the long-since defunct, dear old, [[European Community]], which for practical purposes was subsumed into the [[European Union]] as early as 1993, but finally formally dissolved in the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, at about which time ISDA was finalising the most recent version of its counterparty types.  
Details freaks will have immediately spotted a reference to the long-since defunct, dear old, [[European Community]], which for practical purposes was subsumed into the [[European Union]] as early as 1993, but finally formally dissolved in the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, at about which time ISDA was finalising the most recent version of its counterparty types.