A financial instruments intermediary service provider must not, for any reason, receive a deposit of money or securities from a customer, or have a person specified by Cabinet Order as being closely related to that financial instruments intermediary service provider deposit a customer's money or securities, in connection with the financial instruments intermediary service it conducts.
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securities
「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 intermediary servicemachine translation
「金融商品仲介業」
Business carried on, on entrustment by a financial instruments business operator (金融商品取引業者) carrying on Type I financial instruments business or investment management business (with some exceptions for small-amount electronic offerings, unlisted securities and qualified investors) or by a registered financial institution (登録金融機関), of any of these acts on its behalf: intermediating purchases and sales of securities; intermediating the entrustment of trades on a financial instruments exchange market or a foreign financial instruments market; handling public offerings, secondary distributions or private placements of securities; and intermediating investment advisory or discretionary investment contracts, subject to an exception for investment management business that paragraph sets.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (11)· applies throughout the law
financial instruments intermediary service provider
「金融商品仲介業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 66 to carry on financial instruments intermediary service (金融商品仲介業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (12)· applies throughout the law