An institution’s obligation, introduced in 2011, to provide retail customers with a brief, easy-to-understand document containing a comprehensive description of the product before entering into a transaction. – See investor information, material, duty to disclose, bank client profile, derivatives information duty, derivatives code, edition requirement, trading system, multilateral, information duty, information overload, investment firm, odd lot, EU prospectus legislation, risk report, overconfidence, overregulation, circumstances, judgmental. – Cf. 2012 BaFin Annual Report, p. 163 (deficiencies in information sheets; supervisory action), 2013 BaFin Annual Report, p. 78 (supervisory requirements for the content of an information sheet).
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