(h) transfer securities accounts to another securities firm, to the extent practicable, comply with customer requests regarding the disposal of open contractual commitments and the transfer of open contractual commitments to another securities firm, and enter into agreements to indemnify the other securities firm against shortages of cash or securities in transferred accounts;

(a) determine which of the securities in customers’ securities accounts are to be dealt with as customer name securities and those that are not to be dealt with as such; and

(d) a trade where the party purchasing as principal is a company or a person and is recognized by the Commission as an exempt purchaser; (e) a trade where the purchaser purchases as principal, if the trade is in a security which has an aggregate acquisition cost to such purchaser of not less than $150,000 or such other amount as is prescribed; (f) a trade from the holdings of any person, company or combination of persons or companies described in paragraph (c) of the definition of " distribution" in subsection 2(1) for the purpose of giving collateral for a debt made in good faith; (g) a trade by or for the account of a pledgee, mort ...[+++]gagee or other encumbrancer for the purpose of liquidating a debt made in good faith by selling or offering for sale a security pledged, mortgaged or otherwise encumbered in good faith as collateral for the debt; (h) a trade in a security that may occasionally be transacted by employees of a registered dealer where the employees do not usually sell securities and have been designated by the Director as non-trading employees, either individually or as a class;

Union legislation requires that the financial statements, comprising annual financial statements or consolidated financial statements, of credit institutions, insurance undertakings, issuers of securities admitted to trading on a regulated market, payment institutions, undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS), electronic money institutions and alternative investment funds be audited by one or more persons entitled to carry out such audits in accordance with Union law, namely: Article 1(1) of Council Directive 86/635/EEC , Article 1(1) of Council Directive 91/674/EEC , Article 4(4) of Directive 2004/109/EC ...[+++] of the European Parliament and of the Council , Article 15(2) of Directive 2007/64/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , Article 73 of Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , Article 3(1) of Directive 2009/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , and Article 22(3) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council .

NYX is active in the sector of cash listing services, cash trading and post trading services, derivatives trading and clearing services, information services, and technology solutions in the US and Europe.

Member States may exempt public-interest entities which have not issued transferable securities admitted to trading on a regulated market within the meaning of point 14 of Article 4(1) of Directive 2004/39/EC and their statutory auditor(s) or audit firm(s) from one or more of the requirements in this Chapter.