Meaning of financial product
(1) A financial product is a facility through which, or through the acquisition of which, a person does one or more of the following: (a) makes a financial investment; (b) manages financial risk; (c) makes non‑cash payments. This has effect subject to section 763E. (2) A particular facility that is of a kind through which people commonly make financial investments, manage financial risks or make non‑cash payments is a financial product even if that facility is acquired by a particular person for some other purpose. (3) A facility does not cease to be a financial product merely because: (a) the facility has been acquired by a person other than the person to whom it was originally issued; and (b) that person, in acquiring the product, was not making a financial investment or managing a financial risk.
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