A systematic internaliser is an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company which, on an organised, frequent, systematic and substantial basis, deals on own account by executing client orders without operating a multilateral system. Its system must operate in accordance with Title III of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments.
The frequent and systematic nature is measured by the number of OTC transactions in a given financial instrument carried out by the proprietary trading provider when executing client orders. Substantiality is measured either by the size of the ISP’s OTC trading activity in relation to its total trading activity in a specific financial instrument, or by the size of the ISP’s OTC trading activity in relation to its total trading activity in the European Union in the financial instrument concerned.
A service provider may choose to be covered by the systematic internaliser regime even if it does not meet the conditions of frequent, systematic and substantial nature of the activity concerned. In this case, it must inform the AMF without delay.