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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2019 - onwards
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Article 11 Derivatives: options and swaptions

DRAFT Paragraph inserted Article 9 Amendments to Part 2: excluded activities and exceptions of the Draft SI - Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Ring-fenced Bodies, Core Activities, Excluded Activities and Prohibitions) (Amendment) Order 2023

(1) The requirements listed in this paragraph are that -

(a) the transaction is an option exercisable by a customer ("X") of the ring-fenced body requiring the ring-fenced body to buy or sell foreign currency or commodities, and

(b) the contract in which the option is granted specifies -

(i) the currency or commodity concerned;

(ii) the amount of currency or commodity which may be bought or sold under the option;

(iii) a single date on which the option may be exercised (which must be no later than 3 years from the date on which the contract is entered into); and

(iv) the exchange rate or commodity price which will apply to the transaction.

(2) The requirements listed in this paragraph are that -

(a) the transaction consists of a cap or floor (or both) under which -