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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 30 April 2011 - onwards
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Regulation 19 Capital requirements

(1) An authorised electronic money institution must maintain at all times own funds equal to or in excess of -

(a) 350,000 euro; or

(b) the amount of the own funds requirement calculated in accordance with paragraph 13 of Schedule 2 subject to any adjustment directed by the Authority under paragraph 15 of that Schedule,

whichever is the greater.

(2) Where the business activities of a small electronic money institution generate average outstanding electronic money of 500,000 euro or more, it must maintain at all times own funds equal to or in excess of the amount of the own funds requirement calculated in accordance with paragraph 14 of Schedule 2, subject to any adjustment directed by the Authority under paragraph 16 of that Schedule.