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1114 ⬅️ | ➡️ Article 9 – Entry into force

Article 8 - Additional requirements in relation to placing

1.

For the purposes of identifying the types of conflict of interest that arise where the crypto-asset service provider provides placing services, crypto-asset service providers shall take into account, without prejudice to 2023, the following situations:

(a)

the crypto-asset service provider is also offering pricing services in relation to the offer of crypto-assets;

(b)

the crypto-asset service provider is also providing execution of orders for crypto-assets on behalf of clients and research services;

(c)

the crypto-asset service provider is placing crypto-assets of which itself or an entity from its group is the issuer.

2.

Crypto-asset service providers shall establish, implement and maintain internal arrangements to ensure all of the following:

(a)

that the pricing of the offer does not promote the interests of other clients of the crypto-asset service provider or the crypto-asset service provider’s own interests, in a way that may conflict with the issuer client’s interests;

(b)

that the pricing of the offer does not promote the interests of the issuer client’s, the crypto-asset service provider’s own interests or the interests of a connected person, in a way that may conflict with other clients’ interests;

(c)

the prevention of a situation where persons responsible for providing services to the crypto-asset service provider’s investment clients, or deciding which products should be included in the list of products offered or recommended by the crypto-asset service provider, are directly involved in decisions about pricing to the issuer client;

(d)

the prevention of a situation where persons responsible for providing services to the crypto-asset service provider’s investment clients are directly involved in decisions about recommendations to the issuer client on allocation;

(e)

the prevention of the exercise of staking rights without prior consent of the investment client.

3.

Crypto-asset service providers shall have in place a centralised procedure to identify all their placing operations, including the date on which the crypto-asset service provider was informed of potential placing operations.