Module 4 · Chapter 8

Conflicts of Interest and Record-Keeping

A broker paid on every order gains when its clients trade more. This chapter shows how it manages that conflict, why it records calls and chats about orders, and what it reports to clients.

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In this chapter

  • Why a fee on every order is the broker’s main conflict, and how it is managed
  • Why calls and chats about orders are recorded, and how a recording settles a dispute
  • Which reports the client receives, and when a leveraged note needs an alert

8.1Conflicts and records in one paragraph

Thalvia earns €2 on every order, so it gains when its clients trade more. That is a conflict of interest: the firm’s own interest pulls against the client’s. MiFID II makes a firm prevent or manage each conflict, and tell the client about it only as a last resort. It also makes the firm record calls and chats about orders, and report to the client on each trade.

Key point

A conflict is fixed inside the firm, not by a warning to the client. The app and the staff rules do that work.

Also in this chapter

  1. The fee on every order: Thalvia’s main conflict
  2. Recording every call and chat about an order
  3. Reports: confirmations, statements and alerts
  4. Your job

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