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Version status: Applicable, Entered into force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 29 June 2023 - 29 December 2024
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Article 72 Identification, prevention, management and disclosure of conflicts of interest

1. Crypto-asset service providers shall implement and maintain effective policies and procedures, taking into account the scale, the nature and range of crypto-asset services provided, to identify, prevent, manage and disclose conflicts of interest between:

(a) themselves and:

(i) their shareholders or members;

(ii) any person directly or indirectly linked to the crypto-asset service providers or their shareholders or members by control;

(iii) members of their management body;

(iv) their employees; or

(v) their clients; or

(b) two or more clients whose mutual interests conflict.

2. Crypto-asset service providers shall, in a prominent place on their website, disclose to their clients and prospective clients the general nature and sources of conflicts of interest referred to in paragraph 1 and the steps taken to mitigate them.