Module 3 Flashcards
Tradeable financial assets which are purchased in order to be held for investment.
Securities
Securities
- Shares of stock, bonds, government securities and commercial papers
- Investment Contracts, Certificates of Interest / Participations in a profit
sharing agreement - Proprietary or nonproprietary membership certificates
- Fractional undivided interests in oil, gas, or other mineral rights
- Certificates of assignments, participations, trust, or similar instruments
- Derivatives
Objectives of Securities Regulation
- Protect the investors
- Ensure that the markets are fair, efficient and transparent
- Reduce systemic risk
The Pyramid of Regulation
- SEC
- SROs
- Individual Firms
- Customers
Publicly-Listed Company vs Public Company
Publicly-Listed Company
A class of equity securities listed on an Exchange
Public Company
With assets in excess of Php 50M
and has 200 or more shareholders
holding at least 100 shares
Exchange and OTC Market
Exchange
An organized marketplace or facility that brings together buyers and sellers, and executes trades of securities and/or commodities
OTC Market
Markets that are less formal between various parties that takes place outside of an Exchange.
Exempt Securities
Securities that can be sold without a ____________________.
- Any evidence of ___________ issued by a financial institution that has been licensed by the BSP
- ____________ arising from a bona-fide sale of _____________.
- Securities issued or guaranteed by _________________________.
- Certificates issued by a _________ or by a _________ in bankruptcy
Registration Statement (RS)
- indebtedness
- Bills of exchange; goods and services
- multilateral financial entities
- receiver; trustee
Exempt Securities:
For Commercial Papers
- Issued to not more than ___________________
- Payable to a __________
- Neither __________________ and held on to maturity
- Not exceeding _________
- 19 non institutional lenders
- specific person
- negotiable nor assignable
- Php 150M
Registration Statement
No securities shall be sold or offered for sale within the Philippines unless _________________________.
All outstanding shares of the following corporation shall be
registered:
1. Corporations that will conduct _______________.
2. Corporations that will apply for ____________________.
3. Sale shall commence within _______________ from the effective date
duly registered with the Commission
- Initial Public Offerings
- listing on an Exchange
- 10 business days
Shelf-Registration or Continuous Offering
Not exceeding _______ from the effective date of registration
statement. The following requirements after the initial tranche is needed:
- Disclose to the commission at least _____________ prior
to the offering or sale of securities - Filing ____
- Sale shall commence within _______________ from the effective date
three years
- five (5) business days
- Fees
- 10 business days
Exempt Transactions
- Any sale because of _________ or __________.
- Liquidating a _________ in good faith
- The sale of securities by an issuer to ____________ during _________________
- The distribution by a corporation/issuer of securities to its shareholders out of surplus, or sale where no ___________ or __________ is paid
- ________________ on any registered Exchange or trading market
- ____________ to the qualified buyers
- insolvency or bankruptcy
- bona fide debt
- fewer than 20 people; any 12-month period
- commission or remuneration
- Broker’s transaction
- Sale of securities
Any securities issued or guaranteed by the Government of the Philippines are considered __________________
Exempt Securities
An entity that provides a facility for the following activities:
- Acts as intermediary in making deliveries / payments of securities
- Reduce the number of settlements of securities transactions
- Provide the means for the
central handling of securities
Clearing Agency
Any person who performs on behalf of an Issuer or by itself:
- Countersigns certificate of
securities - Monitors, registers, exchanges,
and records securities - Records the ownership
Transfer Agent
Manipulative Practices
- Painting the Tape
- Marking the Close
- Improper Matched Orders
- Hype and Dump
- Wash Sales
- Squeezing the Float
Engaging in a series of transactions to give the impression of activity or price movement.
Painting the Tape
Buying and selling securities at the close of the market to alter the closing price.
Marking the Close
Buy and sell orders are entered at the same time with same price and quantity by different but colluding parties.
Improper Matched Orders
Engaging in buying activity at increasingly higher prices then selling securities in the market at the higher prices.
Hype and Dump
Engaging in transactions in which there is no change of beneficial ownership.
Wash Sales
Controlling the demand side and exploiting market congestion in a way to create artificial prices.
Squeezing the Float
Buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material nonpublic information.
Insider Trading
An Insider means:
- The Issuer
- A Director or Officer (or any person performing similar functions)
- Any person who has access to material information about an issuer or a security that is not generally available to the public
- A person who learns such information by a communication from any forgoing insiders
SRC 29
Protection of Customer Accounts
SRC 29
“When such Broker Dealer is a member of an Exchange (Exchange Trading Participant), the Exchange shall ______________________ to take over any outstanding contracts relating to securities and notify the Exchange in writing of such transfer and the affected customers that have said contracts transferred.”
“Where such Broker Dealer is not a Member of Exchange (Exchange Trading Participant), the Commission shall notify the affected customers of such suspension or revocation and require that they _________________________.”
immediately arrange for another Member or Exchange Trading participant
transfer their account to another Broker Dealer
It is the act of borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock and is considered extremely risky
Margin and Credit
Margin and Credit
- Broker Dealer cannot extend credit in amount that exceeds ____ of the ____________ of the security.
- No new or additional credit be extended if equity is less than _______
- No less than ______________ of the current market value of all securities in the account.
- 50%; current market value
- Php 50K.
- 25% (long) or 30% (short)
A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a group
Doctrines
Margin Turnaround Time (TAT)
- When there is an insufficiency of margin, a call for additional shall be issued within ___________.
- A call for _____________ shall be satisfied within _______.
*The required payment date for a call for initial margin may be
extended by _____ upon ___________.
- 5 business days
- maintenance margin; 24 hours
- 7 days; written application
are margin transactions in which an investor sells borrowed securities in anticipation of a price decline and is required to return an equal number at some point in the future.
Short sales
A corporation may not be made to answer for acts and liabilities of its stockholders or those of legal entities to which it may be connected or vice versa.
Doctrine of Legal Entity of the Separate Personality of the Corporation
Beyond the powers. The doctrine in the law of corporations that holds that if a corporation enters into a contract that is beyond the scope of its corporate powers, the contract is illegal.
Doctrine of Ultra Vires
Doctrines
- Doctrine of Ultra Vires
- Doctrine of Intra Vires
- Doctrine of Legal Entity of the Separate Personality of the Corporation
- Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity
The doctrine used whenever a court finds that the corporate fiction is being used to defeat public convenience, justify wrong / fraud / crime, or to confuse legitimate issues, or that a corporation is the mere alter ego or business conduit of a person.
Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Entity
Within the powers. It is within the scope of its powers or authority. The opposite of ultra vires.
Doctrine of Intra Vires
Administrative Agency
________________ and ___________
appointed by the President with a term of _________.
Chairperson should be at least _________.
Commissioners at least ___________.
1 CHAIRPERSON; 4 COMMISSIONERS; 7 years each
40 years old.
35 years old
Sanctions
A fine of no less than Php 10K nor more than Php 1M plus not more than Php 2K for each day.
is one where a corporation absorbs the other and remains in existence while others are dissolved.
Merger
is one where a new corporation is created and consolidating corporations are extinguished.
Consolidation
The public company is defined as
I. Sold a class of its own equity securities
II. A class of equity securities listed on an Exchange
III. With assets in excess of Php 50M and has 200 or more shareholders holding at least 100 shares
a) I
b) II
c) III
d) All of the above
c) III
____ of the outstanding capital stock
of votes needed in Merger and Consolidation
2/3
Clearing agency is
a) An entity that provides a facility for acting as intermediary in making deliveries / payments of securities
b) Any person who performs on behalf of an Issuer or by itself monitors securities
c) An organized market place the brings together buyers and sellers
d) A less formal market that takes place outside of an Exchange.
a) An entity that provides a facility for acting as intermediary in making deliveries / payments of securities
Painting the tape is defined as
a) Buying and selling securities at the close of the market to alter the closing price
b) Buy and sell orders are entered at the same time with same price by different but
colluding parties
c) Engaging in a series of transactions to give the impression of activity or price movement
d) Engaging in transactions where there is no change of beneficial ownership.
c) Engaging in a series of transactions to give the impression of activity or price movement
Engaging in buying activity at increasingly higher prices then selling securities in the market
at the higher prices.
a) Hype and Dump
b) Wash Sales
c) Squeezing the Float
d) Marking the Close
a) Hype and Dump