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Template FAQs for clients, investors and trade creditors in investment bank special administration: claims, CASS and FSCS (England and Wales)

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Frequently Asked Questions—clients, Investors or trade creditors

These FAQs are provided solely for guidance in relation to the Special Administration of [ insert company ] and the Investment Bank Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2011, SI 2011/1301. You should seek your own legal and other professional advisers for advice in relation to your claim.

General FAQs

What is a special administration?

The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011, SI 2011/245 were brought in to enhance the process when an investment bank collapses or fails. [ Set out the distinctions from ordinary administration, the statutory objectives underpinning a special administration, the possibility of forming a Creditors' Committee, together with how Costs are to be met in practice, eg the costs and expenses of returning client assets are to be paid out of relevant client assets and other costs and expenses are to be paid out of the Company’s own/firm assets. ]
Who are Special Administrators?

Special Administrators are individuals appropriately qualified to take control of this organisation. In this instance, the Investment Bank had reached the stage where, at that point, it was [ cashflow OR balance sheet insolvent ] .

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