The Institutional-Customer Exemption
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 Introducing Cora and the $50M natural person threshold
- 1:56 Rita wants to skip suitability, Sam applies the three conditions
- 3:03 Why negative consent fails the affirmative indication requirement
- 4:36 What the exemption actually waives: customer-specific only
- 5:51 Regulation Best Interest versus FINRA suitability rule for institutions
- 6:51 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- The dollar threshold and entity types that qualify as an institutional account under the Customer Account Information Rule, including the natural person trap
- The three non-negotiable conditions required to invoke the institutional-customer exemption and what happens if even one is missing
- Why negative consent, silence, or failure to object never satisfies the affirmative indication requirement
- Which suitability obligations the exemption waives (customer-specific only) and which remain fully in force (reasonable basis and quantitative)
- How to distinguish whether Regulation Best Interest or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) suitability rule governs a given customer recommendation
- The trade-by-trade, asset-class, and blanket ways an institutional customer may affirmatively indicate independent judgment
- The most tested exam scenarios where reasonable-basis suitability is violated even when the customer-specific exemption is valid
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