A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not lend money or securities to a customer or perform intermediation, brokerage, or agency for a third party's lending of money or securities to a customer in connection with the investment advisory business it conducts; provided, however, that this does not apply if a financial instruments business operator lends money or securities to a customer in the course of a margin transaction prescribed in Article 156-24, paragraph (1), or if it performs any of such acts in a case that is specified by Cabinet Order.
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A person seeking use the clearing framework of a financial instruments exchange market operated by a financial instruments exchange or the clearing framework of an over-the-counter securities market…
金融商品取引所の会員等又は認可金融商品取引業協会の協会員に対し、金融商品取引業者が顧客に信用を供与して行う有価証券の売買その他の取引（以下「信用取引」という。）その他政令で定める取引の決済に必要な金銭又は有価証券を…
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「有価証券」
Securities as this Act defines them: the instruments listed in Article 2, paragraph (1), among them national government and local government bonds, corporate bonds, share certificates and share option certificates, preferred equity investment certificates, beneficiary certificates of investment trusts and other trusts, investment securities, certain promissory notes, mortgage securities, option certificates and depositary receipts, foreign instruments of the same nature, and other instruments a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments business operator
「金融商品取引業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 29 to carry on financial instruments business (金融商品取引業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
investment advisory business
「投資助言業務」
Within investment advisory and agency business (投資助言・代理業), the services connected with giving advice under an investment advisory contract (投資顧問契約) — the act in Article 28, paragraph (3), item (i).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (6)· applies only in this chapter
financial instruments business operator, etc.machine translation
「金融商品取引業者等」
A financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) or a registered financial institution (登録金融機関).
Defined inArticle 34, paragraph (1)
margin transaction
「信用取引」
A purchase and sale or other transaction of securities that a financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) carries out by extending credit to its customer.
Short name set inArticle 156-24, paragraph (1)