CFCL General information – Norway
Reference
CFCL eligible fund types
Register market
Investment funds in Norway can be in the form of:
Open-ended investment funds:
Open-ended Norwegian investment funds with variable capital that invest in financial instruments, are open for subscriptions from an indefinite group of potential investors. They are encompassed by the Securities Funds Act (Act No. 44 of 25 November 2011) and must be licensed by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway ("FSA").
They can be categorized as:
- UCITs (also known as Ordinary fund);
- National fund (also known as Domestic fund);
- Special fund (also known as Specialized fund).
CSD link
The CSD link only exists for ETFs in the Norwegian market.
Please refer to the CBL Market Link Guide – Norway for more information about funds available via the CSD link.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) are permitted and can be traded within the Norwegian market.
Listed ETFs have the same settlement process as listed equities.
Custody chain and depository
Norway is a non-T2S market.
Type of link | Direct Operated |
CSD | CBL (as CFCL’s depository) | Account operator | |
Name | Verdipapircentralen ASA (VPS ASA) | Clearstream Banking S.A. | Citibank Europe PLC |
FATCA GIIN | Not available | N1V1GJ.00000.LE.442 | NXUTG8.00192.ME.372 |
LEI | 5967007LIEEXZX9IE075 | 549300OL514RA0SXJJ44 | N1FBEDJ5J41VKZLO2475 |
Country of incorporation | Norway | Luxembourg | Ireland |
Account type | Omnibus | Segregated | Mirror omnibus |
Legal Account name/holder | Clearstream Banking S.A. | Clearstream Fund Centre S.A. | Clearstream Banking S.A. |
Depository
Depository | CSD/Local custodian/Agent |
CBL | Citibank Europe PLC |
Operational arrangements
This section describes the operational arrangements of the Norwegian market:
For CFCL clients (link to Verdipapircentralen ASA CSD) | Register market | Remarks | |
Settlement in T2S | No | N/A | |
Settlement free of payment | Yes | Yes | |
Settlement against payment | Yes | Yes | Eligible settlement currencies (between CEU, CBL and CFCL counterparties only): AUD, CAD, CHFa , CNY, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, JPY, MXN, NOK, NZD, PLN, SEK, SGD, TRY, USD and ZAR. |
Settlement against payment in central bank money | No | N/A | CFCL holds a cash account at DNB Bank ASA. Settlement against payment is conducted on the account of DNB Bank ASA at the local central bank. |
Short selling of entitlement | No | N/A | Short selling of income or corporate actions proceeds is not authorised for settlement in CFCL. Please refer to CFCL Client Handbook. |
Settlement penalty fees | Yes | N/A | |
Partial settlement | Yes | N/A | |
Recycling | Yes | N/A | |
Settlement with Euroclear | Yes | N/A | |
Hold and Release | No | N/A | Postponed until further notice. |
Allegements | Yes | N/A | |
Transaction Linking | No | N/A | |
Bilateral Cancellation | Yes | N/A | |
Registered securities | Yes | N/A | |
Transaction Management | No | N/A | |
Proxy voting | Yes | N/A | |
Liquidity Hub Connect | No | N/A | |
Sale and purchase of rights | No | N/A | |
Repo services | No | N/A | |
Market restrictions | Yes | N/A | No ETFs that are beneficially owned by Norwegian individual residents or legal entities that are incorporated in Norway can be held through CFCL account. |
FTT | No | N/A | |
Daily reconciliation | Yes | N/A | |
Link eligible for use in Eurosystem credit operations | No | N/A | |
Moment of entry of instructions | A settlement instruction is considered as entered into the VPO NOK system when it has been matched. Settlement Instructions that do not require matching, that is, settlement instructions for transactions with parties other than participants in VPO NOK system, are considered as entered into the VPO NOK system at the start of the settlement. | ||
Irrevocability of instructions | Once a settlement instruction has been matched, it cannot be recalled unless both the participants involved in the trade in question send instructions to cancel their respective settlement instructions. In such events, the cancellation instructions from both participants must be received before the start of the settlement in which the settlement instruction in question was to be processed. If a matched settlement instruction has not been settled by the close of the specified settlement date, and one of the parties has an insufficient amount of cash or financial instruments to meet its obligations in connection with the transactions, the other party is entitled to cancel the settlement instruction unilaterally. The right to cancel unilaterally shall apply for the duration of the deferral period. Settlement instructions cannot be cancelled in the period between the start of settlement and the completion thereof. The entitlement to cancel unilaterally does not apply to settlement instructions relating to transfers between a participant and a participant authorised as a Central Counterparty, or possibly between two participants authorised as Central Counterparties. Exceptions to this may apply in specific circumstances. | ||
Finality of instructions | Settlement involves the final transfer in the VPS securities register of ownership rights to financial instruments (securities settlement), the transfer of Norwegian kroner payment through Norges Bank between the VPO LOM accounts included in the Clearing (payment settlement). | ||
a. Settlement in CHF is possible only for non-Swiss securities and not against SIX SIS as counterparty in CEU.
Legal arrangements
The below section is valid on the date of the legal opinions that were issued and might be subject to change.
The information is provided for guidance only and should not be considered in isolation or as constituting a complete or definitive legal advice on any specific matter.
As CBL is our sub-custodian, please refer to the CBL General information - Norway for the complete information about Legal arrangements.
Cash correspondent details
Currency: | Norwegian Krone (NOK) |
CCB name: | DNB Bank ASA, Oslo |
CBL account: | 7966.02.00555 NO67 7966 020 05552b |
Swift address: | DNBANOKK |
b. This IBAN format should only be used in field :59: of payment instructions via Swift MT103.