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CFS Elective Professional MiFID

This document outlines the criteria for re-categorizing a client as an elective professional client under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. [1] It states that the firm will assess the client's expertise, experience, and knowledge to determine if they are capable of making independent investment decisions and understanding associated risks. [2] The client must meet at least two of three criteria: having carried out significant transactions over the past year, having a portfolio exceeding 500,000 euros, or having worked in finance for over a year. [3] The client declares they meet the criteria and understands the reduced protections of professional status.

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CFS Elective Professional MiFID

This document outlines the criteria for re-categorizing a client as an elective professional client under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. [1] It states that the firm will assess the client's expertise, experience, and knowledge to determine if they are capable of making independent investment decisions and understanding associated risks. [2] The client must meet at least two of three criteria: having carried out significant transactions over the past year, having a portfolio exceeding 500,000 euros, or having worked in finance for over a year. [3] The client declares they meet the criteria and understands the reduced protections of professional status.

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RE-CATEGORISATION AS AN

ELECTIVE PROFESSIONAL CLIENT

Equities | Futures | Options | FX | CFDs | ETFs | Managed Funds | Fixed Income


CRITERIA

Under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, we may treat you as an Elective Professional Client if, after our assessment of your expertise, experience,
and knowledge, we are reasonably assured that, in light of the nature of the transactions or services envisaged, you are capable of making your own investment
decisions and understanding the risks involved. This is the “qualitative test”.

In making our assessment we may rely on information we already possess about you and/or request additional information from you and/or call you to discuss your
investment experience.

In addition to this qualitative test, you must satisfy at least 2 of the following 3 criteria (please provide evidence):

1. √ You have carried out transactions, in significant size, on the relevant market at an average frequency of 10 per quarter over the previous 4 quarters.

2. √ The size of your financial instrument portfolio, defined as including cash deposits AND financial instruments, exceeds EUR 500,000.

3. You work or have worked in the financial sector for at least one year in a professional position, which requires knowledge of the transaction or
services envisaged.

CLIENT DECLARATION AND WARRANTIES

I warrant that I/we satisfy at least two of the three criteria listed above.

Furthermore, I confirm that I wish to be treated as a Professional Client generally by CFSM Trader (hereafter, “the Firm”). I have read and understood the
written warning below from the Firm regarding the protections and compensation rights that I may lose, and I am aware of the consequences of losing such
protections.

WARNING REGARDING PROFESSIONAL VS RETAIL CATEGORISATIONS

The main differences in regulatory protections afforded Retail Clients versus Professional Clients are:

Communications, including financial promotions made by us with professional clients are not subject to all of the requirements imposed by MiFID on
communications with Retail Clients.

Information provisions about the Firm, its services, and remuneration that are required with respect to retail clients are not all required with respect to
Professional Clients.

Professional Clients are not eligible complainants with respect to the Financial Ombudsman Services (“FOS”).

Pre-requirements for the entry into written basic agreements for designated investment business may not apply to Professional Clients.

If the Firm makes a personal recommendation or manages investments for Professional Clients in the course of MiFID or equivalent third party business, it is
entitled to assume that, in relation to the products, transactions and services for which the Professional Client is so classified, the client has the necessary level
of experience and knowledge for the purposes of suitability assessment, and where the Firm is required to provide suitability reports to a Retail Client, in
many cases the firm is not required to provide them to a Professional Client.

With respect to non-advised services, the Firm is not required to request information or adhere to the same procedures when assessing the appropriateness of
a given service or product for a Professional Client, and the Firm may not be required to give warnings to the Professional Client if the Firm cannot determine
appropriateness with respect to a given services or product.

There is no right to cancel a non-distance contract to buy a unit in a regulated collective investment scheme if the consumer is not a Retail Client.

When managing investments for a client, a firm must provide the client with a periodic statement. For Retail Clients, the content of the statement is
prescribed, but for Professional Clients, it is not.

The Firm may take into consideration the classification of the client in following its Order Execution Policy, as well as in providing information, including
product information, to clients. I am aware that it is up to me/us/this entity to keep the Firm informed of any change that could affect my categorisation.

Signature

Print Name On behalf of (if you are signing on behalf of a company)

Date (DD/MM/YYYY)

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