The new rules regulate, among others, various aspects regarding the simultaneous holding of certain positions by the same person, the correlation of the level of the initial capital of financial investment services firms, or SSIFs, and the right to provide certain services, as well as including Forex rolling spot contracts and binary options into the category of derivative financial instruments.
The new regulation also stipulates the elimination of provisions requiring a SSIF to hold an initial capital equal in lei to EUR730,000 in order to place financial instruments without a firm commitment and altering the maximum amount a SSIF can cover to avoid the discount risk.