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Executing bank

The bank that carries out each order Thalvia passes on: Holmbrecht Bank AG, in Frankfurt. It also holds the clients’ investments and part of their money. The client never deals with it, and it pays Thalvia nothing. Clause 2, “Executing Bank” · Chapter 1 · see Best execution, Safekeeping

Explained in Chapter 1, What an Online Broker Does, and Why Its Client Agreement Matters, of European Brokerage.

How it comes up, in Chapter 1
Thalvia does not carry out the orders itself. Holmbrecht, a bank in Frankfurt, is its executing bank: the bank that carries out each order on the exchange.
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As defined in the training Client Agreement
means Holmbrecht Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany, which executes the Orders we pass to it and holds your Financial Instruments as sub-custodian;
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