Notion of segregated accounts
Article 1
As regards the conditions that ensure the protection of client money in the event of failure of an investment firm, the notion of segregated accounts referred to in Article 15(5)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 shall mean that: (a) records and accounts are kept in a way that enables investment firms at any time and without delay to distinguish funds held for one client from funds held for any other client and from their own funds; (b) records and accounts are maintained in a way that ensures their accuracy, and in particular their correspondence to the funds held for clients, and that they may be used as an audit trail; (c) reconciliations are conducted on a regular basis between the internal accounts and records of investment firms and those of any third parties by whom those funds are held; (d) necessary steps have been taken to ensure that client funds deposited are held in an account or accounts identified separately from any accounts used to hold funds belonging to the investment firm; (e) adequate organisational arrangements have been introduced to minimise the risk of the loss or diminution of client funds, or of rights in connection with those funds, as a result of misuse of the funds, fraud, poor administration, inadequate record-keeping or negligence.