Capitalised terms used in these Terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:
Definitions
“Authorities” means any judicial, administrative or regulatory body, any government, or public or government agency, instrumentality or authority, any Tax Authority, securities or futures exchange, court, central bank or law enforcement body, or any agents thereof, having jurisdiction over any part of HSBC Group.
“Compliance Obligations” means obligations of any member of the HSBC Group to comply with:
a) any applicable local or foreign statute, law, regulation, ordinance, rule, judgment, decree, voluntary code, directive, sanctions regime, court order, agreement between any member of the HSBC Group and an Authority, or agreement or treaty between Authorities and applicable to HSBC or a member of the HSBC Group (“Laws”), or international guidance and internal policies or procedures,
b) any valid demand from Authorities or reporting, regulatory trade reporting, disclosure or other obligations under Laws, and
c) Laws requiring HSBC to verify the identity of our Customers.
“Connected Person” means a person or entity whose information (including Personal Data or Tax Information) is provided by, or on behalf of, the Customer to any member of the HSBC Group or otherwise received by any member of the HSBC Group in connection with the provision of the Services. In relation to the Customer, a Connected Person may include, but is not limited to, any guarantor of the Customer, a director or officer of a company, partners or members of a partnership, any “substantial owner”, “controlling person”, or beneficial owner, trustee, settler or protector of a trust, account holder of a designated account, payee of a designated payment, representative, agent or nominee of the Customer, or any other persons or entities having a relationship to the Customer that is relevant to its banking relationship with the HSBC Group.
“Controlling Persons” generally means individuals who exercise control over an entity (for a trust, these are the settlor, the trustees, the protector, the beneficiaries or class of beneficiaries, and any other individual who exercises ultimate effective control over the trust, and in the case of a legal entity other than a trust, such term means persons in equivalent or similar positions of control).
“Customer Information” means Personal Data, confidential information, and/or Tax Information of either the Customer or a Connected Person (including accompanying statements, waivers and consents).
“Financial Crime” means money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, tax evasion, fraud, evasion of economic or trade sanctions, and/or violations, or attempts to circumvent or violate any Laws or regulations relating to these matters.
“HSBC” means HSBC Bank Armenia cjsc.
“HSBC Group” means HSBC Holdings plc, and/or any of, its affiliates, subsidiaries, associated entities and any of their branches and offices, and “any member of the HSBC Group” has the same meaning.
“Loss” means any claim, charge, cost (including, but not limited to, any legal or other professional cost), damages, debt, expense, tax, liability, obligation, allegation, suit, action, demand, cause of action, proceeding or judgment, however calculated or caused, and whether direct or indirect, consequential, punitive or incidental.
“Personal Data” means any data relating to an individual (and corporate entities, in those countries where data privacy law applies to corporates), from which the individual can be identified, including, without limitation, sensitive personal data, name(s), residential address(es), contact information, age, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, citizenship, personal and marital status.
“Services” means, without limitation,
a) the opening, maintaining and closing of the Customer’s bank accounts,
b) the provision of credit facilities and other banking products and services to the Customer (including, for example, securities dealing, investment advisory, broker, agency, custodian, clearing or technology procuring services), processing applications, ancillary credit assessment and product eligibility assessment, and
c) the maintenance of HSBC’s overall relationship with the Customer, including marketing or promoting financial services or related products to the Customer, market research, insurance, audit and administrative purposes.
“Substantial Owners” means any individuals entitled to more than 10% of the profits of or with an interest of more than 10% in an entity either directly or indirectly.
“Tax Authorities” means foreign tax, revenue, fiscal or monetary authorities.
“Tax Information” means any documentation or information (and accompanying statements, waivers and consents) relating, directly or indirectly, to the tax status of a Customer (regardless of whether that Customer is an individual or a business, non-profit or other corporate entity) and any owner, “controlling person”, “substantial owner” or beneficial owner of a Customer, that HSBC considers, acting reasonably, is needed to comply (or demonstrate compliance, or avoid non-compliance) with any HSBC Group member’s obligations to any Tax Authority.
“Tax Information” includes, but is not limited to, information about: tax residence and/or place of organisation (as applicable), tax domicile, tax identification number, Tax Certification Forms, certain Personal Data (including name(s), residential address(es), age, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, citizenship).
“Tax Certification Forms” means any forms or other documentation as may be issued or required by a Tax Authority or by HSBC from time to time to confirm the tax status of an account holder or the Connected Person of an entity.
Reference to the singular includes the plural (and vice versa).
