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one of the following:(a) (in accordance with Article 4(20)of the Banking Consolidation Directive (Definitions)) a parent undertaking, other than a financial holding company, a credit institution or a mixed financial holding company, the subsidiary undertakings of which include at least one credit institution; or(b) (in accordance with Articles 2(2) and 37(1) of the Capital Adequacy Directive (Supervision on a consolidated basis) and in relation to a banking and investment group without any credit institutions in it) a parent undertaking, other than a financial holding company, an investment firm or a mixed financial holding company, the subsidiary undertakings of which include at least one investment firm.
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(in accordance with Article 1(j) of the Insurance Groups Directive (Definitions)) a parent undertaking, other than an insurance undertaking, an insurance holding company or a mixed financial holding company, the subsidiary undertakings of which include at least one insurance undertaking.
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(in accordance with Article 2(15) of the Financial Groups Directive (Definitions)) a parent undertaking, other than a regulated entity, which meets the following conditions:(a) it, together with its subsidiary undertakings, at least one of which is an EEA regulated entity, and other entities, constitutes a financial conglomerate;(b) it has been notified by its coordinator that its group is a financial conglomerate in accordance with Article 4(2) of the Financial Groups Directive; and(c) it has not been notified that its coordinator and other relevant competent authorities have agreed not to treat the group as a financial conglomerate in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Financial Groups Directive.
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means a company as defined in article 1a(2) of Council Directive 85/611/EEC of 20 December 1985 on the co-ordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS).
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an activity in respect of a transaction:(a) which involves any of the following investments and is not regulated by the rules of a recognised investment exchange:(i) a debenture which is issued on terms requiring repayment not later than five years from the date of issue;(ii) any government and public security which is issued on terms requiring repayment not later than one year or, if issued by a local authority in the United Kingdom, five years from the date of issue; or(b) which involves any of the following investments and is not made on a recognised investment exchange or expressed to be so made:(i) a certificate representing certain securities or rights to or interests in investments relating, in either case, to an investment within (a)(i) or (a)(ii);(ii) an option relating to:(A) an instrument in (a)(i) or (a)(ii); or(B) currency of the United Kingdom or of any other country or territory; or(C) gold or silver;(iii) a future for the sale of:(A) an instrument in (a)(i) or (a)(ii); or(B) currency of the United Kingdom or of any other country or territory; or(C) gold or silver;(iv) a contract for differences by reference to fluctuations in:(A) the value or price of any instrument within any of (a)(i) to (a)(iii) or (b)(i) to (b)(iii); or(B) currency of the United Kingdom or of any other country or territory; or(C) the rate of interest on loans in any such currency or any index of such rates; or(v) an option to acquire or dispose of an instrument within (b)(ii), (b)(iii) or (b)(iv); or(c) where one of the parties agrees to sell or transfer a debenture or government and public security and by the same or a collateral agreement that party agrees, or acquires an option, to buy back or re-acquire that investment or an equivalent amount of a similar investment within twelve months of the sale or transfer.For the purposes of (c) investments are regarded as similar if they entitle their holders to the same rights against the same persons as to capital and interest and the same remedies for the enforcement of those rights.
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(1) ( for the purposes of ELM) a holding or position set out in ELM 2.4.17 R (Material holdings).(2) (for the purposes of GENPRU and BIPRU) has the meaning in GENPRU 2.2.209 R (Deductions from tiers one and two: Material holdings).
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(in LR) a company or group, whose principal activity is, or is planned to be, the extraction of mineral resources (which may or may not include exploration for mineral resources).
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a remittance that is part client money and part other money.
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(as defined in article 26 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 1) Order 2003 (SI 2003/1475)) any of the following regulated activities:(a) arranging (bringing about) regulated mortgage contracts (article 25A(1));(b) making arrangements with a view to regulated mortgage contracts (article 25A(2));(c) advising on regulated mortgage contracts (article 53A);(d) agreeing to carry on a regulated activity in (a) to (c) (article 64).
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an insurer (other than a pure reinsurer) which carries on reinsurance business and where one or more of the following conditions is met in respect of its reinsurance acceptances:(a) the premiums collected in respect of those acceptances during the previous financial year exceeded 10% of its total premiums collected during that year;(b) the premiums collected in respect of those acceptances during the previous financial year exceeded €50 million; and(c) the technical provisions in respect of those acceptances at the end of the previous financial year exceeded 10% of its total technical provisions at the end of that year.
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has the meaning in GENPRU 2.2.212R (Material holdings)