| (a) | a bank; |
| (b) | a finance company licensed under section 6 of the Finance Companies Act 1967; |
| (c) | a merchant bank; |
| (d) | a designated financial holding company; |
| (e) | an approved exchange as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (f) | a recognised market operator as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (g) | a licensed trade repository as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (h) | a licensed foreign trade repository as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (i) | an approved clearing house as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (j) | a recognised clearing house as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (k) | an approved holding company as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (l) | an authorised benchmark administrator or exempt benchmark administrator as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (m) | an authorised benchmark submitter, a designated benchmark submitter or an exempt benchmark submitter as defined in section 2(1) of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (n) | the Depository as defined in section 81SF of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (o) | a holder of a capital markets services licence granted under section 86 of the Securities and Futures Act 2001; |
| (p) | a person who is exempt from the requirement to hold a capital markets services licence under the Securities and Futures Act 2001 to carry on business in any regulated activity specified in the Second Schedule to that Act; |
| (q) | a trustee for a collective investment scheme authorised under section 286 of the Securities and Futures Act 2001, that is approved under section 289 of that Act; |
| (r) | a licensed trust company licensed under section 5 of the Trust Companies Act 2005; |
| (s) | a financial adviser licensed under section 10 of the Financial Advisers Act 2001; |
| (t) | an exempt financial adviser under section 20(1) of the Financial Advisers Act 2001; |
| (u) | an authorised reinsurer as defined in section 2 of the Insurance Act 1966; |
| (v) | a member of Lloyd’s that is permitted to carry on any insurance business specified in the First Schedule to the Insurance (Lloyd’s Asia Scheme) Regulations (Rg 9) in accordance with regulation 3 of those Regulations; |
| (w) | an insurance agent or insurance broker registered or otherwise regulated under the Insurance Act 1966; |
| (x) | a licensed insurer; |
| (y) | an approved MAT insurer as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Insurance (Approved Marine, Aviation and Transit Insurers) Regulations (Rg 15); |
| (z) | an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system under the Payment Services Act 2019; |
| (za) | a payment service provider licensed under section 6(7)(a) of the Payment Services Act 2019. |
