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CLIENT CATEGORISATION POLICY

Gametech (Cyprus) Ltd (hereafter the "Company") is an Investment Firm incorporated and registered under the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, with registration number C342580. The Company is authorized, and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (hereafter the "CySEC") under the license number 291/16

The Company is required to classify its clients following the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) as well as the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007 (Law 144(I)/2007) into one of the following three categories: retail, professional or eligible counterparty.

RETAIL CLIENT

A retail client is a client who is not a processional client or an eligible counterparty. Such a categorisation receives the highest possible level of protection as described in sections 36 (conduct of business), 38 (execute orders on terms most favourable to the client) and 39 (handling client orders) of the Law 144(I)/2007 including the compensation of the investors compensation fund.

PROFESSIONAL CLIENT

A professional client is considered to be a client who possesses the experience, knowledge and expertise to make his own investment decisions and has the ability to assess the risks that may incur. The following criteria should apply for the categorization of a professional client:

  1. Entities which are required to be authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets. Those are the following:
    1. Credit Institutions
    2. Investment Firms
    3. Other authorized or regulated financial institutions
    4. Insurance companies
    5. Collective investment schemes and management companies of such schemes
    6. Pension funds and management companies of such funds
    7. Commodity and commodity derivatives dealers
    8. Locals
    9. Other institutional investors
  1. Large undertakings meeting two of the following size requirements on a company basis:
    1. Balance sheet total at least EUR 20,000,000
    2. Net turnover at least EUR 40,000,000
    3. Own funds at least EUR 2,000,000
  1. National and regional governments, public bodies that manage public debt, Central Banks, international and supranational institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank and other similar international organisations.
  1. Other institutional investors whose main activity is to invest in financial instruments including entities dedicated to the securitization of assets or other financial transactions

CLIENTS WHO MAY BE TREATED AS PROFESSIONALS ON REQUEST

The client may be permitted to waive some of the protections afforded by the conduct of business rules of the Company.

Any such waiver of the protection afforded by the standard conduct of business regime shall be considered valid only if an adequate assessment of the expertise, experience and knowledge of the customer, undertaken by the Company, gives reasonable assurance, in light of the nature of the transactions or services envisaged, that the Client or, in the case of a legal entity, its managers and directors, are capable of making their own investment decisions and understanding the risks involved.

In the course of the above assessment, as a minimum, two of the following criteria should be satisfied:

Procedure

The client defined above may waive the benefit of the detailed rules of conduct only where the following procedure is followed:

ELLIGIBLE COUNTERPARTY

When dealing with eligible counterparties, the Company is exempted from important obligations under conduct of business rules, best execution rules, client order handling rules. Where the Company treats the client as an eligible counterparty, the client will be entitled to fewer protections under the law than he would be entitled to as a professional client. Therefore:

Request for Different Categorisation

A Retail client has the right to request a different categorisation to become a Professional client in order to receive a lower level of protection by the Company.

A Professional client has the right to request a different categorisation as a Retail client in order to receive a higher level of protection by the Company.

An Eligible Counterparty has the right to request a different categorisation to become either a Professional client or a Retail client in order to receive a higher level of protection.

The Company has the right to decline any of the above client's request for different categorisation.


CLIENT CATEGORISATION POLICY - Version 1.0 April 2016

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