Operational Information

CFCL General information – Norway

Norway CFCL

Reference

Service level
CFCL
Last Updated
15.10.2024

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
1 North Wall Quay
Dublin 1
Ireland
Depository code: 5N

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.