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 management 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 these 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 management business
「投資運用業」
Investment management business as defined in Article 28, paragraph (4): the part of financial instruments business (金融商品取引業) that consists in carrying on as a business the acts in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (xii), (xiv) and (xv) — managing money or other property, on investment decisions (投資判断) based on an analysis of the value, etc. of financial instruments, as an investment in securities or in rights under derivatives transactions, whether under a discretionary investment contract (投資一任契約) or an asset management contract with a registered investment corporation (登録投資法人), or for the holders of the rights items (xiv) and (xv) list who contributed it — including where a bank, a cooperative financial institution or another financial institution a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies carries them on.
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (4)· 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)