When a financial instruments business operator, etc. has had an order from a customer for the purchase or sale of securities or for an over-the-counter derivatives transaction, it must give the customer clear notice, in advance, regarding whether the relevant financial instruments business operator, etc. will conclude the purchase and sale or the transaction with the customer personally, as the other party, or whether it will conduct intermediation, brokerage, or agency for the purchase and sale or the transaction.
金融商品取引業者等は、顧客から有価証券の売買又は店頭デリバティブ取引に関する注文を受けたときは、あらかじめ、その者に対し自己がその相手方となつて当該売買若しくは取引を成立させるか、又は媒介し、取次ぎし、若しくは代理して当該売買若しくは取引を成立させるかの別を明らかにしなければならない。
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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
over-the-counter derivatives transactions
「店頭デリバティブ取引」
A transaction listed in Article 2, paragraph (22) — such as forward, index, option and swap transactions on financial instruments or financial indicators — carried out outside financial instruments markets and foreign financial instruments markets, other than those a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes as posing no risk to the public interest or the protection of investors.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (22)· applies throughout the law
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)