Template:FCA Section prime brokerage services

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prime brokerage services: a package of services provided under a prime brokerage agreement which gives a prime brokerage firm a right to use safe custody assets for its own account and which comprises each of the following:

(a) custody or arranging safeguarding and administration of assets;
(b) clearing services; and
(c) financing, the provision of which includes one or more of the following:
(i) capital introduction;
(ii) margin financing;
(iii) securities lending;
(iv) stock borrowing;
(v) entering into repurchase or reverse repurchase transactions;

and which, in addition, may comprise consolidated reporting and other operational support.}}