Please review the following and indicate your agreement to proceed. By law, we are required to check your identity and address. We may use a third party organisation to perform these checks for us. For some clients, we may require that you provide us with further documentation such as photocopies of your passport and a bank statement. We will inform you of these requirements if and when they are necessary.
1) THIS AGREEMENT
This is a master agreement and sets out the terms on which any future contracts
between you, the undersigned, (the "Client" or "you") and PSG Consult (the
"Company" or "us"/"we"), relating to the transmission of money and currency
exchange take place (the "Contracts").
This agreement will only enter into force on submitting an online
Registration Form to us or on receipt of a duly signed copy of this Agreement
together with such documentation as we request to comply with our obligations to
HM Revenue & Customs under the Money Laundering Regulations 2003 or any other
legislation.
PSG Consult confidentially verifies every client's registration details
against GB Group's URU ID verification system (a joint venture with BT) or their
international ID3 system. GB Group is listed by the Joint Money Laundering
Services Group as a Provider of Electronic Identity Databases.
2) FORMATION OF EACH CONTRACT
When you contact us, quoting your name and client reference number (and such
other security checks as we may specify), we will ask you for details of the
currency to be transferred ("Purchase Currency"), the account to which it is to
be transferred, any identification reference to be sent with the payment
instruction, the date on which you would like the money to arrive and the
currency in which you would like to pay and how much either you wish to pay
("Sale Currency") or how much Purchase Currency you wish to have arrive and
contact details for you. These are "Your Instructions"
We may in our absolute discretion decide to carry out Your Instructions. We
will contact you using your contact details (and it is for you to ensure that
your contact details provide adequate security).
We will specify the amount of the Sale Currency required (including all
costs), the amount of the Purchase Currency which will be purchased for you, the
exchange rate we are offering, any additional transmission costs (which we may
add to transactions for less than £10,000, to cover fees e.g. electronic
transmission fees), any terms for a deposit, interest rate applicable to the
deposit and a date by which the purchase currency must have arrived in cleared
funds in the bank account which we specify ("Our Contract Terms").
If you indicate your acceptance of Our Contract Terms, at that point, you
become bound to perform the Contract according to Our Contract Terms and this
Agreement (because we must enter a currency transaction to enable us to perform
the Contract). We are entitled to act on the instructions of anyone who
apparently has your authority to form a Contract, and you agree to indemnify us
for all losses arising from doing so.
All telephone conversations may be recorded by the Company and may be used to
resolve any disputes.
3) DOCUMENTATION OF THE CONTRACT
In most circumstances, once we have entered into a transaction, we will provide
you with a contract note (either by e-mail, fax or post) specifying Our Contract
Terms which will incorporate all the details of the transaction (for example,
without limitation, the Purchase Currency, the Sale Currency, the amount of each
currency, the foreign exchange rate, the date for settlement, the deposit
required if it is a forward contract).
On receipt of the contract note, you must either sign and fax the contract
note back to The Company or e-mail your agreement as soon as is reasonably
practicable. If you do not have access to a fax machine or e-mail, you must
verbally confirm your agreement with the contract note as soon as is reasonably
practicable. Failure to comply will entitle but not require The Company to treat
the transaction as void. Failure to confirm the transaction will not entitle you
to treat the contract as void and we will presume that you agree with the terms
of the contract. If you have not received the contract note, you must notify us
within 24 hours of fixing the rate. Otherwise our record of Your Instructions
and Our Contract Terms shall be definitive.
4) CANCELLATION OF A CONTRACT
If after a Contract has been formed, you inform us that you wish to cancel that
Contract, or this agreement allows us to treat you as having cancelled the
agreement (a "cancellation event"), we may terminate it at our complete
discretion, but we may insist on you and us performing the contract.
We may treat your death, illness, threat of legal action against you, an
insolvency event (including presentation of petitions, arrangements with
creditors, appointment of administrators or receivers or the levying of
distress) occurring against you as being a cancellation.
If you cancel or fail to perform the Contract, we will need to enter a second
currency transaction, matching the one we entered to perform your contract, to
close out our position in the market. It is likely that the exchange rates on
the two matching contracts will not be the same. In that event, we will charge
you for any loss realised on these contracts.
We also reserve the right to charge an administration fee of £50 representing
administration costs involved in cancellation. You may forfeit part or all of
any deposit in the event of cancellation. Where we have suffered losses and
would charge an administration fee, we will set this and our other charges and
losses against the deposit or any other funds received from you.
We may in addition charge you a cancellation fee of 0.05% of the total amount
of the Sale Currency for each working day between the cancellation event and
payment of our administration fee and our costs in closing out our position.
5) FORWARD CONTRACTS
A Forward Contract is a transaction booked where the exchange of funds will
happen more than 4 days after the deal date. We may in our absolute discretion
require a deposit of between 2% - 15% of the Sale Currency in respect of all
"forward contracts". We will inform you of this as part of Our Contract Terms.
Payment of the specified deposit may be made by BACS or electronic transfer to
an account nominated by the Company. We may also accept a cheque, credit or
debit card but debit cards and cheques may incur a handling fee, and credit
cards, a 5% handling fee.
We reserve the right to increase this deposit at any stage up to the
settlement date to allow for changes in the foreign exchange rate which we
believe increase our risk under the transaction. The company may make a margin
call to re-establish the deposit or margin. The margin call will be for such sum
as the Company considers will be necessary to maintain the percentage of deposit
level in terms of the purchase currency. In the event of such a margin call
being made, the client shall pay the required amount of Sale Currency into an
account nominated by the Company within 24 hours of the margin call being made.
Failure to pay in full and on time may be treated as a cancellation of the
Contract.
6) ALTERATION OF CONTRACT
If you decide that you want to change any of the amounts or the date of arrival
of the money under the Contract, and you contact us we may in our discretion
provide you with terms for the alteration which are reasonable given the market
conditions.
7) ARRIVAL OF FUNDS
In the event of a 'spot' trade (one where settlement occurs 2 days after the
contract was formed), the client will pay the Sale Currency in full into the
bank account nominated by the Company on or before the date that the Company
specifies, but no later than 12pm on the second working day after the formation
of the contract.
In the event of a 'same day' trade, the Client will pay the Sale Currency
into the account nominated by the Company by no later than 12pm on the day the
contract is formed.
In the event of a 'forward' trade, the Client will immediately pay into the
account nominated by the Company a margin of between 2%-15% of the full amount
of the Sale Currency – as specified by the Company. The outstanding balance of
the Sale Currency will be paid into the nominated account not later than 5pm one
working day before the settlement date of the forward contract.
In the event of a late payment, the Company will charge the client 0.05% of
Sale Currency for every working day that the payment has not been received in
the Company's nominated account
8) DEFAULT
In the event that the Client fails to make a payment to the Company, the Company
is entitled to treat any transaction as having been cancelled by the client and
will be entitled to the remedies set out in this agreement.
The Company reserves the right to charge the client 0.05% of the Sale
Currency on the contract for each working day until the company cancels the
contract
9) DEDUCTION OF INTERMEDIARIES FEES
In some circumstances a number of intermediaries (such as correspondent banks)
may be involved in an international transfer of currency. These costs cannot be
calculated in advance, and you agree to be liable for these expenses. In most
cases, they will be deducted from the amount of currency received in the account
you specified. Take account of this fact when giving Your Instructions as we
cannot be liable for losses that result from these fees being levied as they are
beyond our control.
10) AUTHORITY AND LEGAL RESTRICTIONS
You warrant to us that you have full authority to enter into this Agreement and
any Contract and that you will not be contravening any laws wherever by entering
into or by performing a Contract and you agree to indemnify us for any losses we
might suffer for breach of this warranty.
If you are a corporate entity, we require confirmation of authority of your
agent entering this Agreement and any Contract. You warrant that you are not an
agent acting for a third party (other than a duly authorised corporate officer,
accountant, solicitor, financial adviser acting on behalf of the corporate or
client). We may require written confirmation from your client of your authority
to transact on their behalf. Accountants, solicitors and firms authorised by the
Financial Services Authority, will have complied with the Money Laundering
Regulations 2003 and the Money Laundering handbook (where applicable) in respect
of each of your clients, and you agree to provide us with certified copies of
identification evidence taken in respect of each client for whose benefit you
enter a Contract.
11) FACTORS BEYOND OUR CONTROL
If we are unable to perform our obligations under this agreement or a Contract
because of factors beyond our control, or an event of force majeure (including
change of law), we will notify you immediately and use reasonable endeavours to
secure the return of any moneys paid by you in respect of which we have been
unable to discharge our obligations under this agreement.
12) ORDERS
We may accept Your Instructions which include an instruction to buy and sell
currency at a particular price (an "order"). We will use our reasonable
endeavours to execute such an order in full at that price, but if market
conditions prevent us from executing the order in full or at all, then we cannot
accept any liability for that.
13) TERMINATION
This agreement may be terminated immediately by either you or us by notice to
the other in writing but the terms of this agreement shall continue to apply to
any Contract already in existence.
14) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
PSG Consult will use all reasonable endeavours to make onward payments but we
will not be liable under any circumstances for any direct, indirect or
consequential loss incurred as a result of a delay in funds reaching your
nominated account.
15) EXECUTION ONLY
We are not providing any advice (whether to proceed, or not to proceed or in
respect of timing) in respect of any transaction you instruct us to execute for
you. We may provide market information at your request, but this is not advice.
You should not infer anything beyond the raw data we provide, as foreign
exchange conditions are very complex. As a result, we cannot accept
responsibility for your decision to enter a foreign currency transaction.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English
Law. The parties agree to irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the English Courts.