Market contingencies

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• Special market conditions
  
  
  • Market crash
  • Closure of the stock market
• Listed company failure

• Intermediary failure
  
  
  • Brokerages
  • Fund operators
• Bank crisis
  
  
  • The failed bank is the settlement bank of a brokerage or provides loans to the brokerage
  • The failed bank is the bank where a fund keeps its cash reserves and settles investors' transactions
  • The failed bank is the appointed trustee/custodian of an authorised fund
  • An authorised fund holds debt instruments issued by the failed bank.
  • The failed bank is the bank where a listed company safekeeps its cash