As requested by the regulation, (articles 313-18 to 313-22 of the Règlement Général de l'AMF) Federal Finance set up a policy to identify, prevent and manage potential conflicts of interest for its activities to ensure protection and primacy of the clients' interests.
We first define conflict of interest as any professional situation where the ability to appreciate or decide of a person, company or organisation can be influenced or altered, in its independence or integrity, by personal considerations or power of persuasion from a third party.
As requested by the regulation :
Federal Finance defines a management of conflicts of interest policy, detects situations of conflicts of interest,keeps a record of the situations of conflicts of interest detected, informs its customers when conflicts of interest remains unsolved
1. Identification : different situations may occur :
2. Prevention of the conflicts of interest
3. Management of conflicts of interest
Federal Finance initiates a management process for conflicts of interest based on transparency, in the case the previously mentionned scheme was not able to guarantee that potential conflict would not affect clients' interest.