1. An investment firm that does not deal in any financial instruments for its own account or underwrite issues of financial instruments on a firm commitment basis, but which holds client money or securities and which offers one or more of the following services, shall have initial capital of EUR 125 000:
(a) the reception and transmission of investors' orders for financial instruments;
(b) the execution of investors' orders for financial instruments;
(c) the management of individual portfolios of investments in financial instruments.
2. The competent authorities may allow an investment firm which executes investors' orders for financial instruments to hold such instruments for its own account if the following conditions are met:
(a) such positions arise only as a result of the firm's failure to match investors' orders precisely;
(b) the total market value of all such positions is subject to a ceiling of 15 % of the firm's initial capital;
(c) the firm meets the requirements set ou