Securities and Futures Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 12 · Market Conduct
201A. Bucketing
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A person must not knowingly execute, or hold himself, herself or itself out as having executed, an order for the purchase or sale of a derivatives contract, without having effected in good faith a purchase or sale of that derivatives contract in accordance with the order or with the business rules and practices of an organised market on which the derivatives contract is to be purchased or sold.
derivatives contract
“derivatives contract” means —(a)any contract or arrangement under which —(i)a party to the contract or arrangement is required to, or may be required to, discharge all or any of its obligations under the contract or arrangement at some future time; and(ii)the value of the contract or arrangement is determined (whether directly or indirectly, or whether wholly or in part) by reference to, is derived from, or varies by reference to, either of the following:(A)the value or amount of one or more underlying things;(B)fluctuations in the values or amounts of one or more underlying things; or(b)any contract or arrangement that is, or that belongs to a class of contracts or arrangements that is, prescribed to be a derivatives contract,but does not include —(c)securities;(d)any unit in a collective investment scheme;(e)a spot contract;(f)a deposit as defined in section 4B of the Banking Act 1970, where the deposit is accepted by a bank or merchant bank licensed under that Act;(g)a deposit as defined in section 2 of the Finance Companies Act 1967, where the deposit is accepted by a finance company as defined in that section of that Act;(h)any contract of insurance in relation to any class of insurance business specified in section 3(1) of the Insurance Act 1966; or(i)any contract or arrangement that is, or that belongs to a class of contracts or arrangements that is, prescribed not to be a derivatives contract;
A person must not knowingly execute, or hold himself, herself or itself out as having executed, an order to make a purchase or sale of a spot foreign exchange contract for purposes of leveraged foreign exchange trading, without having effected in good faith a purchase or sale in accordance with the order.
spot foreign exchange contract
“spot foreign exchange contract” has the meaning given in the Second Schedule;