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Request Reference records held by the Central Bank of Ireland relating to all banking licences, permits, and/or authorisations issued to a named regulated financial service provider by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (or its predecessor or successor bodies, if applicable), including but not limited to: 1. The date(s) on which such licences or authorisations were granted; 2. The nature, scope, and regulatory basis of each authorisation; 3. Any conditions or restrictions attached to those licences or authorisations; 4. Amendments, suspensions, or revocations of such licences or permits (if any); 5. Correspondence or decisions relating to the regulatory status of a named regulated financial service provider under Irish financial services law. 6. whether the named regulated financial service provider ever had and/or required (and in particular during 2008) any licences, and/or FOI-2025-001649 11/07/2025 permissions and/or authorisations, from the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority and/or Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”) to Legal Firm Refused 15/08/2025 enable it to sell, market, execute or be a party/counterparty to: (a) an Interest Rate Derivative Product (specifically an interest rate SWAP); and/or (b) enter an agreement under the 2006 ISDA Rules. In the event that the named regulated financial service provider had no such licences, and/or permissions and/or authorisations to undertake such business and undertook the sale of an Interest Rate Derivative Product during 2008 and/or made a precondition to a loan, you might please outline what breaches of legislation, regulation and/or CBI Codes of Conduct would have occurred. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that the named regulated financial service provider had the authorisation to sell and provide “vanilla” hedging products (i.e. Fixed rates), however the query specifically relates to Derivative products outlined at 6(a) above.
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