Bond & Equity Trading

FYI
----- Forwarded by Mark Taylor/HOU/ECT on 09/13/2000 10:37 AM -----

Paul Simons
09/13/2000 09:16 AM

To: Gary Hickerson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeff Kinneman/HOU/ECT@ECT, John
Greene/LON/ECT@ECT, Sheila Glover/HOU/ECT@ECT, Janine Juggins/LON/ECT@ECT,
Mahesh Lakhani/LON/ECT@ECT, Mark Evans/Legal/LON/ECT@ECT, Andrew
Cornfield/LON/ECT@ECT
cc: John Sherriff/LON/ECT@ECT, Michael R Brown/LON/ECT@ECT, (bcc: Mark
Taylor/HOU/ECT)
Subject: Bond & Equity Trading

I have just received the letter SFA promised us. SFA have accepted our
argument that our proprietary bond and equity trading can be carried on in
London through an unregulated UK entity. The letter also states that SFA
will not be applying their consolidated capital supervision rules to the
unregulated entity, which they have the discretion to do.

From a regulatory perspective this means we can move ahead at full speed to
set up an appropriate Chinese Wall and then begin trading.

Best regards

Paul