Records, accounts and reconciliations - CASS Provision

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Template:CASS Section 6.5

Cass 6.5 provides, in sum:

  • Records and Accounts
  • Record Keeping: records must be kept for at least five years.
  • Internal reconciliation of safe custody assets held for clients
  • Reconciliations with external records
  • Frequency of external reconciliations
  • Independence of person conducting reconciliations
  • Reconciliation discrepancies
  • Notification requirements
  • Audit of compliance with the MiFID custody rules


[Note: article 16(1)(a) of the MiFID implementing Directive] CASS 6.5.201/01/2009 FCAA firm must maintain its records and accounts in a way that ensures their accuracy, and in particular their correspondence to the1 safe custody assets1 held for clients.

[Note: article 16(1)(b) of the MiFID implementing Directive] CASS 6.5.2A01/03/2011 FCA3A firm must keep a copy of every executed client agreement that includes that firm's right to use safe custody assets for its own account, including in the case of a prime brokerage agreement the disclosure annex referred


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