(出資対象事業の状況に係る情報の提供が確保されていない場合の売買等の禁止)Prohibition of Purchase and Sale, etc. If the Provision of Information on the Status of Business Subject to Investment Is Not Ensured
With regard to rights in a lending business, etc., a financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (i), item (ii), or items (vii) through (ix) unless the rights are those specified by Cabinet Office Order as ones for which it is ensured, in the contract or other juridical act pertaining to those rights in a lending business, etc., that information on the status of the business subject to investment pertaining to those rights is provided to the person who holds those rights.
第四十条の三の四
(出資対象事業の状況に係る情報が提供されていない場合の募集等の禁止)Prohibition of Public Offering If Information on the Status of Business Subject to Investment Has Not Been Provided
With regard to rights in a lending business, etc., a financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (vii) through (ix) knowing that the information that should be provided to the person who holds those rights based on the contract or other juridical act prescribed in the preceding Article has not been provided.
第四十条の四
(特定投資家等向け有価証券の売買等の制限)Restrictions on the Purchase and Sale of Securities for Professional Investors, etc.
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform any of the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iv) and (x) in connection with the securities for professional investors, etc. with a general investor (meaning a person other than a professional investor, etc., a non-resident, the issuer of securities for professional investors, etc., or any other person specified by Cabinet Office Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply in a case in which disclosure has been made (meaning a case in which disclosure has been made as prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (7); the same applies in Article 40-5, paragraph (1) and Article 66-14-2) with regard to the relevant securities for professional investors, etc., nor does it apply in a case in which the financial instruments business operator, etc. intermediates a sale for the general investor without having solicited the general investors, nor does it in any case specified by Cabinet Office Order as one in which there is little likelihood of this resulting in insufficient investor protection.
第四十条の五
(特定投資家等向け有価証券に関する告知義務)Obligation to Notify in Connection with Securities for Professional Investors, etc.
If a financial instruments business operator, etc. sells securities for professional investors, etc. in a case not falling under the category of a case in which disclosure has been made, or performs any other act specified by Cabinet Order in connection with such securities, without issuing a solicitation for acquisition or a solicitation for selling, etc., it must notify the other party to the sale or other act, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order and with regard to the securities for professional investors, etc., that the case does not fall under the category of a case in which disclosure has been made, as well as notifying the other party of any other matters that are specified by Cabinet Office Order.
The first time that a financial instruments business operator, etc. receives an offer from a professional investor, etc. or non-resident (excluding, of these persons, a person set forth in Article 2, paragraph (31), items (i) through (iii); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) for a contract for transactions in securities for professional investors, etc. (meaning a contract for performing an act set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iv), or item (x) in connection with securities for professional investors, etc. (excluding a contract for making a purchase and sale of securities for professional investors, etc. through an act set forth in item (x) of that paragraph (limited to a purchase and sale conducted through the intermediation, brokerage, or agency of the financial instruments business operator that performs that act) or any other contract that is specified by Cabinet Office Order taking into account of the content of the contract and the features of the counterparty); hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the business operator, etc. must notify the professional investor, etc. or non-resident of the following particulars and, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order, provide the professional investor, etc. or non-resident with information on those particulars, before concluding the contract for transactions in securities for professional investors, etc. related to the offer:
the contents of the information provided in connection with the securities for professional investors, etc., the nature of the transaction, and any other matters specified by Cabinet Office Order as material matters of which an investor must be made aware in connection with securities for professional investors, etc.; and
an indication of the risk of insufficient protection involved, if a transaction of securities for professional investors, etc. will be conducted by a person whose knowledge or experience, or the state of whose assets, makes it inappropriate for the person to do so.
When a financial instruments business operator, etc. accepts entrustment of a commodity-related market derivatives transaction, etc. (meaning a commodity-related derivatives transaction, or intermediation, brokerage, or agency for the entrustment; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), the business operator, etc. must not close a transaction by becoming the counterparty without conducting commodity-related derivatives transaction, etc. in relation to that entrustment.
第四十条の七
(店頭デリバティブ取引に関する電子情報処理組織の使用義務等)Obligation to Use an Electronic Data Processing System for Over-the-Counter Derivatives Transactions
When a financial instruments business operator, etc. (limited to a financial instruments business operator, etc. that conducts over-the-counter derivatives transactions on a regular basis) conducts specified over-the-counter derivatives transactions (meaning over-the-counter derivatives transactions specified by Cabinet Office Order as transactions that require expeditious disclosure of information concerning the outline of the relevant transactions for securing fairness in the relevant transactions, in light of the transaction volume and other transaction status; the same applies in the following paragraph, Article 58-2 and Article 60-14, paragraph (1)), it must use the electronic data processing system used by the relevant financial instruments business operator, etc. for its business of over-the-counter derivatives transactions or the electronic data processing system used by another financial instruments business operator, etc. (limited to a financial instruments business operator, etc. that conducts over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. on a regular basis) or a business operator authorized to conduct electronic over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc. prescribed in Article 60-14, paragraph (2) for its business of over-the-counter derivatives transactions, etc.
A person that used the electronic data processing system pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must, with regard to the specified over-the-counter derivatives transactions conducted using the relevant electronic data processing system, publicly announce the price, quantity and other outline of the transaction pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Office Order.
第二款 投資助言業務に関する特則
第四十一条
(顧客に対する義務)Duty to Customers
第一項
金融商品取引業者等は、顧客のため忠実に投資助言業務を行わなければならない。
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must work faithfully on behalf of its customers in providing its investment advisory business.
第二項
金融商品取引業者等は、顧客に対し、善良な管理者の注意をもつて投資助言業務を行わなければならない。
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must provide its investment advisory business with the due care of a prudent manager to its customers.
第四十一条の二
(禁止行為)Prohibited Actions
第一項
金融商品取引業者等は、その行う投資助言業務に関して、次に掲げる行為をしてはならない。
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform any of the following acts in connection with the investment advisory business it conducts:
giving advice to customers to conduct a transaction between themselves that would be detrimental to a particular customer's interests in the interest of another customer;
giving advice regarding a particular financial instrument, financial index, or option for which there is no justifiable basis, with the aim of using fluctuations in the price, indicator, figure, or amount receivable based on a customer's transaction, to benefit itself or a third party other than that customer;
giving advice to a customer to conduct a transaction under terms and conditions that are different from the ordinary terms and conditions and detrimental to the customer's interests (other than an act that falls under the act set forth in item (i));
making a purchase and sale or other transaction of securities or cryptoassets, or a derivatives transaction (hereinafter referred to as "purchase and sale or other transaction of securities"), on its own account, using information from a transaction conducted by a customer that has received its advice;
providing an economic benefit to a customer or a third party or having a third party provide an economic benefit to a customer, in order to cover the whole or part of a loss incurred by the customer due to a transaction about which the customer has received its advice, or in order to add to the profit that a customer has accrued in connection with a transaction about which the customer has received its advice (unless this is to cover the whole or part of a loss incurred due to problematic conduct); and
beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, any act specified by Cabinet Office Order as resulting in insufficient investor protection, harming the fairness of transactions, or causing a loss of confidence in the financial instruments business.
第四十一条の三
(有価証券の売買等の禁止)Prohibition on the Purchase and Sale of Securities
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must not perform any of the acts set forth in Article 2, paragraph (8), items (i) through (iv), item (xviii) or item (xix), in connection with the investment advisory business it conducts, with a customer as the counterparty or on behalf of a customer; provided, however, that this does not apply if it does so as type-I financial instruments business or cryptoasset trading business, or if it does so in a case that is specified by Cabinet Order.
第四十一条の四
(金銭又は有価証券の預託の受入れ等の禁止)Prohibition on Receiving Deposits of Money or Securities
A financial instruments business operator, etc. 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 the financial instruments business operator, etc. deposit a customer's money or securities, in connection with the investment advisory business it conducts, unless it does so as securities, etc. management, or unless it does so in a case that is specified by Cabinet Order.
第四十一条の五
(金銭又は有価証券の貸付け等の禁止)Prohibition on the Lending of Money or Securities
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.
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must work faithfully on behalf of right holders (meaning persons prescribed in the following items in accordance with the category of business set forth in each item; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) in providing investment management business:
一
第二条第八項第十二号に掲げる行為を行う業務 同号イ又はロに掲げる契約の相手方
the business of performing the act specified in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xii):the other party to the contract set forth in (a) or (b) of that item;
the business of performing the act specified in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xiv):the person that holds the rights indicated on the securities provided for in that item or other rights specified by Cabinet Order; and
the business of performing the act specified in Article 2, paragraph (8), item (xv):the person that holds rights set forth in (a) through (c) of that item or other rights specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in that item.
第二項
金融商品取引業者等は、権利者に対し、善良な管理者の注意をもつて投資運用業を行わなければならない。
A financial instruments business operator, etc. must conduct investment management business with the due care of a prudent manager for right holders.