Updated 10/05/2025
In force

Initial Legal Act
Amendments
Search within this legal act

Article 2 - Delegated Regulation 2025/416

Article 2

Identification of the parties involved in the order

1.   For all orders in crypto-assets, crypto-asset service providers operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall keep records to identify all of the following:

(a)

the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets that is a legal entity and submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with Article 4 and field 1 of Table 2 of the Annex;

(b)

the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets who is a natural person and submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with field 2 of Table 2 of the Annex;

(c)

the client on whose behalf the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) or (b) submits the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets, as identified in accordance with field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex;

(d)

the person or the computer algorithm within the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) and (b) that is responsible for the investment decision in relation to the order, as identified in accordance with field 4 of Table 2 of the Annex;

(e)

the person or the computer algorithm within the participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets referred to in points (a) and (b) that is responsible for the execution of the order, as identified in accordance with field 5 of Table 2 of the Annex.

For the purposes of point (d), where more than one persons take the investment decision, the crypto-asset service provider operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall keep records of the person with primary responsibility for that decision. A crypto-asset service provider operating a trading platform for crypto-assets shall only identify such a person or computer algorithm where the investment decision is made on behalf of either the participant, or a client in accordance with a discretionary mandate to it by the client.

2.   Where a participant to the trading platform for crypto-assets intends to allocate an order to its client following submission of the order to the trading platform for crypto-assets and has not yet allocated the order to its client at the time of the submission of the order, that client shall be identified as specified in field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex.

3.   Where several orders of different clients are submitted to the trading platform for crypto-assets together as an aggregated order, the information referred to in field 3 of Table 2 of the Annex shall be recorded in respect of each client.