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A new customer is opening a margin account at a FINRA member broker-dealer. During the account setup, the customer signs the Credit Agreement and the Hypothecation Agreement, but declines to sign the Loan Consent Agreement. Which of the following statements accurately describes the status of the account?

  1. The margin account can be opened because the Loan Consent Agreement is an optional document.Cevap
  2. B
    The account must be restricted to a cash-only account because all three margin agreements are mandatory under FINRA rules.
  3. C
    The account can be opened, but Federal Reserve Regulation T requires a 100% initial margin deposit on all purchases until the Loan Consent Agreement is executed.
  4. D
    The account can be opened, but the broker-dealer is prohibited from charging interest on any margin debit balance.

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The margin account can be opened because the Loan Consent Agreement is an optional document.
When opening a margin account, customers must sign the Credit Agreement (disclosing interest terms) and the Hypothecation Agreement (pledging securities as collateral). The Loan Consent Agreement, which gives the broker-dealer permission to lend customer securities to third parties for short sales, is optional. Therefore, the account can still be opened and operated as a margin account even if the customer declines to sign the Loan Consent Agreement.

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1
Identify the mandatory versus optional documents required to open a customer margin account.
The Credit Agreement and Hypothecation Agreement are required; the Loan Consent Agreement is optional.
The Credit Agreement establishes the terms of the interest-bearing loan, while the Hypothecation Agreement pledges customer securities as collateral to the broker-dealer.
2
Determine the impact of declining to sign the Loan Consent Agreement.
The broker-dealer cannot lend the customer's securities to other traders for short sales, but the customer can still maintain a fully operational margin account.
Because the Loan Consent Agreement is optional, refusing to sign it does not block margin account approval or change margin borrowing terms.

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