What is the purpose of displaying personalized risk warnings to clients before investor classification and appropriateness processes?

Client Categorisation FAQs

Overview

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Investors should review a bond's prospectus to verify and understand the specific terms, conditions, and risks of that issuance. If available, investors can retrieve a bond's prospectus via the TWS or Client Portal within the Description section for that bond. …

Investors typically need to complete declarations affirming their understanding of the risks associated with trading Cryptocurrencies. These declarations are required to ensure that clients have considered the risks and suitability of crypto trading before engaging in such activities…

The Appropriateness Assessment is a regulatory investor protection measure and applies to all our trading permissions, apart from the stock trading permission, that consists of non-complex products.

The Appropriateness Assessment is especially required for trading products with complex features that make it more difficult for a client to understand the product, for example Options, Futures and Leveraged products. …