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subscription of units or shares of an AIF have been received;
(2) all cash of the AIF has been booked in cash accounts opened:
(a) in the name of:
(b) at:
(i) the AIF; or
(ii) the AIFM acting on behalf of the AIF; or
(iii) the depositary acting on behalf of the AIF; and
(i) an entity referred to CASS 7.4.1R(1) to (3)
(Depositing client money); or
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(ii) another entity of the same nature, in the relevant
market where cash accounts are required, provided
that such entity is subject to effective prudential
regulation and supervision which have the same
effect as EU law and are effectively enforced and in
accordance with the principles set out in article 16
(safeguarding of client financial instruments and
funds) of the MiFID Implementing Directive; and
(3) where cash accounts are opened in the name of the depositary acting
on behalf of the AIF in accordance with (2)(a)(iii), a depositary must
ensure that no cash of the entity referred to in (2)(b), and none of the
depositary’s own cash, is booked on such accounts.
[Note: article 21(7) of AIFMD]
Depositary functions: safekeeping of financial instruments
3.11.18 R (1) A depositary must hold in custody all AIF custodial assets.
(2) The depositary must ensure that all AIF custodial assets that can be
registered in a financial instruments account are registered in the
depositary’s books within segregated accounts opened in the name
of the AIF, or the AIFM acting on behalf of the AIF, so that they can
be clearly identified as belonging to the AIF at all times in
accordance with the applicable law and the principles set out in
CASS 6.2.2R (Requirement to have adequate organisational
arrangements), CASS 6.3.1R (Depositing assets and arranging for
assets to be deposited with third parties), CASS 6.5.1R and CASS
6.5.2R (Records and accounts), and CASS 6.5.6R (Reconciliations
with external records).
[Note: article 21(8)(a) of AIFMD]
3.11.19 EU [Relevant provisions of the AIFMD level 2 regulation to be inserted which