Paragraph 6 Investment banks and investment firmsF1

This paragraph applies where either the company or the supplier is an investment bank or an investment firm.

In this paragraph—

• “investment bank” means a company or other entity that has permission under Part 4A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to carry on the regulated activity of—

  1. (a)

     safeguarding and administering investments,

  2. (b)

     managing an AIF or a UCITS,

  3. (c)

     acting as trustee or depositary of an AIF or a UCITS,

  4. (d)

     dealing in investments as principal, or

  5. (e)

     dealing in investments as agent;

• “investment firm” has the same meaning as in the Banking Act 2009 (see section 258A of that Act), disregarding any order made under section 258A(2)(b) of that Act;

• “regulated activity” has the meaning given by section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, taken with Schedule 2 to that Act and any order under that section.