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===But what about [[client money]]?=== | ===But what about [[client money]]?=== | ||
We have much to say about [[Client money|client money elsewhere]]. But the [[beneficiary]] of [[client money]] protection has no [[credit risk]] to the person offering [[client money]] protection because that person never holds the cash in question. It is instead placed on deposit with a third party [[bank]]. The client ''does'' have full credit risk to that third party bank. This tends to surprise those clients who have the dim impression that [[client money]] protection is some kind of amulet a | We have much to say about [[Client money|client money elsewhere]]. But the [[beneficiary]] of [[client money]] protection has no [[credit risk]] to the person offering [[client money]] protection because that person never holds the cash in question. It is instead placed on deposit with a third party [[bank]]. The client ''does'' have full credit risk to that third party bank. This tends to surprise those clients who have the dim impression that [[client money]] protection is some kind of amulet; a [[patronus charm]]; a magical cloak of [[mithril]], protecting the [[little pot of money]] in the bank’s vault with their names on it against all machinations of the succubi and incubi who infest their dreams. | ||
Why no, good sir: | Why ''no'', good sir: [[client money]] merely ''changes'' the banshee to whose freakish conspiracies your [[little pot of money]] is exposed, ideally just to a ''less'' nasty,<ref>I.e., better [[Capital Adequacy Directive|capitalised]] and prudentially regulated, but don’t tell the Extinction Rebellion that: nastiness is in the eye of the beholder of course.</ref> more ''banky'' type of hobgoblin or foul fiend. | ||
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