Terms and Conditions
1 We are furnishing this section to provide you with some basic facts about purchasing Assets on Margin, and to alert you to the risks involved with Margin Trading. Trading through a Margin Account is highly risky and may result in the loss of funds greater than those that you have deposited into your account. In addition, it is important that you fully understand the risks involved in trading Assets on Margin.
2. When your purchase Assets, you may pay for the Assets in full or you may borrow all or part of the price from us. Where you choose to borrow Assets from us, you will open a Margin Account with us. The Assets purchased in full will for the Collateral for the loan to you. If Assets that make up the Collateral decline in value, so will the Collateral. As a result, we can take actions such as to sell the Collateral in any of your Accounts held with us or to issue a Margin Call in order to maintain the require Asset value of the Account.
3. You should understand that pursuant to this MLFA we generally do not issue Margin Calls and we will not credit your Account or increase your Margin to meet you margin deficiencies. We will instead generally liquidate positions in your account in order to satisfy Margin Requirements without prior notice to you and without an opportunity for you to choose the positions to be liquidated or the timing or the order of the liquidation.
4. You can lose more Assets than you have deposited in your Account. A decline in value in the value of Assets that are purchased on Margin may require you to provide additional Collaterals to avoid the forced sale (a “liquidation”) of those Margin purchased Assets or other Assets in your Account.
5. If the value of your Collateral falls below the Margin Requirements, or if we revise these requirements to be higher at any time, we can sell the Assets in your Account to cover the Margin deficiency. Where the liquidation is insufficient to cover such shortfall, your will be legally responsible for making up of such shortfalls.
6. We have no obligation to contact a User before a Margin Call, or a liquidation is valid. Thus, you should understand that you need keep yourself informed about preceding Margin Requirements and how Margins will affect you at any time a Margin Requirement changes against your favour. You should also ensure proper risk management of positions that are in line with your risk tolerance.
7. You are not entitled to choose which Assets are liquidated to meet a Margin Call. We have sole discretion and right to decide which positions to liquidate in order to protect our interest.
8. Margin Requirements can be amended and raised at any time at our sole discretion without written notice to you. These changes often take effect immediately and will affect your existing Margins. If your use of Margin is not within an amended or raised Margin Requirements, you can expect to be liquidated immediately without notice.
9. You are charged Interest in connection with borrowing Margins in order to maintain a short position. Interest rates paid to, or rates and fees collected from your in connection with borrowing or lending Assets are subject to frequent change without notice and will vary based on the nature of the Asset being sold short. You pay Interest on your Margin Loan Facility which we can amend at our sole discretion without prior notice to you. These Interest costs will reduce your return on investment.
10. You may borrow Margin to stake Assets. When you stake Assets, you may lose control over the Assets (such as to the network you have staked it to) including the ability to repay Margin used to the staked Assets. Loans may or may not be given depending on our analysis, You agree that we have no obligation to give you a loan whether you meet the requirements or not. In such a circumstance you are still obligated to repay interests for as long as these assets are no repaid. You should carefully consider the risks of staking Margin Assets.
11. Special Risks of Short Selling. There are additional risks associated with short selling Assets that may expose you to significant losses. We may close out your position by buying back and Asset if you do not maintain adequate Margin in tour Account. This may expose you to substantial losses if the price of the Asset is above the price at which you sold it short. Short selling carries unlimited market risk and could lead to extraordinary losses because you may have to purchase an Asset at a higher price than which you sold it for in order to cover a short position. There is no limit to how high the price of an Asset can go. When you sell an Asset short, we must lend you the Asset from our own inventory or from outsourced liquidity providers or liquidity within our marketplace provided by other Users. Borrowed Assets are subject to recall without notice. Asset lenders retain the right to recall their Assets at any time. We may buy-in Assets on your behalf, without notice to you, to cover short positions in the event the event we cannot borrow Assets or re-borrow Assets after a recall notice. You are liable for any losses or costs incurred in the event of a buy-in, including any associated Transactions commissions or fees.
Interpretations and Definitions
1. Capitalised terms used in this MLFA that are not defined herein, have the meanings given to them in the Terms of Use
Loan Facility
1. You may draw upon the available Margin from your Margin Account for Margin Trading or to continue to hold Assets purchased through the Margin extended by this Margin Lending Facility provided that you maintain sufficient Collateral in your Margin Account at all times as required under the Margin Requirements. We will determine the Margin Requirements of your Margin Lending Facility in our sole discretion.
2. You agree that we are entitled to charge you Interest for the Margins we issued to you, in whatever Asset type, such Margins may have been incurred at the rates as specified on our Site and as amended from time to time at our sole discretion regardless of whether prior notification has been given. You agree that we have no obligation to, be held accountable for any amounts you put into your wallet. You undertake to pay all Interests incurred from Margin lending Facility extended to you regardless whether you Account goes into a deficit.
3. Unified and Universal Collateral– When you use our Margin Loan Facilities you agree and accept the unification of the Margin across all Services across and Account with us.
Security Interests
1. All Assets purchased with Margin shall form Collateral. Assets in your Account to the extent sufficient are deemed pledged as Collateral relative to the Margin requested and granted in accordance with the prevailing Margin Requirements.
2. All Collaterals of any kind held by us are hereby pledged to us by you and you grant to us a perfected first-priority lien and security interest in our favour to secure the performance and obligations and liabilities to us arising under this or any other agreement with us to the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws.
Margin Accounts, Margins and automatic Liquidation
1. If at any time your Account does not meet the Margin Requirements we may, without limiting its other rights, sell, close or otherwise liquidate all or part of your positions in any of your Account held with us or with an any agent or broker with no prior notice to you.
2. This Liquidation will usually occur automatically but not withstanding the foregoing, we have no obligation to take any action if your Account does not meet the Margin Requirements.
3. Our Margin Requirements or risk control may include leverage ratio limits or position size limits. If these limits are reached or exceeded, you may not be able to place new orders and you authorise us to liquidate existing positions and/or enter into risk reducing Transactions on your behalf without notice, in order to bring your Account back into compliance with the relevant Margin Requirements.
4. Margins are subject at all times to Margin requirements established by us and you agree and undertake to maintain your Margins within Margin Requirements. We reserve the right to modify Margin Requirements for any and all Users any open or new positions at any time, in our sole discretion without prior notice.
5. You undertake to monitor your Account at all times to ensure that you maintain sufficient Collateral at all times to meet our Margin Requirements.
6. We may reject any order if your Account has insufficient collateral to meet Margin Requirement and can delay processing of any order while determining the Margin status of your Account.
7. The Margin Requirements on our Site is only indicative and does not reflect the actual Margin Requirements which can change rapidly depending on market conditions.
8. If you have multiple Accounts or sub-accounts, we shall have the sole discretion of treating such accounts as either whole or separate for the purposes of applying Margin Requirements. You therefore acknowledge and accept that this may cause the total Margin Requirements to be higher than otherwise indicated and could cause your positions to be liquidated in one Account or sub-account notwithstanding excess Assets in any of the respective Accounts.
9. You will not rely on us to close or liquidate positions in your Account in the event you do not comply with the Margin Requirements. In-particular, you shall not rely on the auto-liquidation rights and systems to function as a stop-loss order. You shall not assume that we shall liquidate positions to prevent you from losing more than you have deposited. Likewise, we may in our sole discretion and our interests delay or decide not to liquidate positions in your Account with a Margin deficit and shall have no liability for any loss you sustain in connection with such delay of or forbearance from Liquidation.
10. For the purposes of determining your compliance with our Margin Requirements, we will in our sole discretion determine the value of positions and Assets in your Account. Our calculations may differ from the valuation and prices disseminated by other markets, and you agree to subject yourself unconditionally to our valuations.
11. These terms and the Margin Requirements are designed to protect the integrity of the market and are not designed to protect you. You understand and agree nonetheless that by using our Margin Lending Facilities you are subjecting yourself to this MLFA and the Margin Requirements. Our failure to apply or enforce any of the terms here in or in the Margin Requirements does not give you any right to bring an action against us and nothing in this Agreement constitutes a warranty or undertaking that we will apply or enforce the Margin Requirements.
Liquidation and Set-Off
1. You agree that we have the right in our sole discretion by not the obligation to Liquidate and/or set-off all or any part of your positions or Assets or Collaterals in any of your accounts, individual or joint, at any time and in any manner without prior notice to you at any time where:
Your account has no Assets are in deficit;
You have insufficient Assets or Collateral to meet Margin Requirements;
We anticipate in our sole discretion that your holding of any position is likely or will result in a future violation of our Margin Requirements;
Where you execute an order for which you do not have sufficient Assets;
Where we determine in our sole discretion that Liquidation is necessary to advisable to protect you;
In an event of default, a breach by one or more terms on your part in this MLFA, our Terms of Use or the Margin Requirements;
Where this agreement is terminated;
Where legal or investigation proceedings are commenced by either party.
2. When your purchase Assets, you may pay for the Assets in full or you may borrow all or part of the price from us. Where you choose to borrow Assets from us, you will open a Margin Account with us. The Assets purchased in full will for the Collateral for the loan to you. If Assets that make up the Collateral decline in value, so will the Collateral. As a result, we can take actions such as to sell the Collateral in any of your Accounts held with us or to issue a Margin Call in order to maintain the require Asset value of the Account.
3. You should understand that pursuant to this MLFA we generally do not issue Margin Calls and we will not credit your Account or increase your Margin to meet you margin deficiencies. We will instead generally liquidate positions in your account in order to satisfy Margin Requirements without prior notice to you and without an opportunity for you to choose the positions to be liquidated or the timing or the order of the liquidation.
4. You can lose more Assets than you have deposited in your Account. A decline in value in the value of Assets that are purchased on Margin may require you to provide additional Collaterals to avoid the forced sale (a “liquidation”) of those Margin purchased Assets or other Assets in your Account.
5. If the value of your Collateral falls below the Margin Requirements, or if we revise these requirements to be higher at any time, we can sell the Assets in your Account to cover the Margin deficiency. Where the liquidation is insufficient to cover such shortfall, your will be legally responsible for making up of such shortfalls.
6. We have no obligation to contact a User before a Margin Call, or a liquidation is valid. Thus, you should understand that you need keep yourself informed about preceding Margin Requirements and how Margins will affect you at any time a Margin Requirement changes against your favour. You should also ensure proper risk management of positions that are in line with your risk tolerance.
7. You are not entitled to choose which Assets are liquidated to meet a Margin Call. We have sole discretion and right to decide which positions to liquidate in order to protect our interest.
8. Margin Requirements can be amended and raised at any time at our sole discretion without written notice to you. These changes often take effect immediately and will affect your existing Margins. If your use of Margin is not within an amended or raised Margin Requirements, you can expect to be liquidated immediately without notice.
9. You are charged Interest in connection with borrowing Margins in order to maintain a short position. Interest rates paid to, or rates and fees collected from your in connection with borrowing or lending Assets are subject to frequent change without notice and will vary based on the nature of the Asset being sold short. You pay Interest on your Margin Loan Facility which we can amend at our sole discretion without prior notice to you. These Interest costs will reduce your return on investment.
10. You may borrow Margin to stake Assets. When you stake Assets, you may lose control over the Assets (such as to the network you have staked it to) including the ability to repay Margin used to the staked Assets. Loans may or may not be given depending on our analysis, You agree that we have no obligation to give you a loan whether you meet the requirements or not. In such a circumstance you are still obligated to repay interests for as long as these assets are no repaid. You should carefully consider the risks of staking Margin Assets.
11. Special Risks of Short Selling. There are additional risks associated with short selling Assets that may expose you to significant losses. We may close out your position by buying back and Asset if you do not maintain adequate Margin in tour Account. This may expose you to substantial losses if the price of the Asset is above the price at which you sold it short. Short selling carries unlimited market risk and could lead to extraordinary losses because you may have to purchase an Asset at a higher price than which you sold it for in order to cover a short position. There is no limit to how high the price of an Asset can go. When you sell an Asset short, we must lend you the Asset from our own inventory or from outsourced liquidity providers or liquidity within our marketplace provided by other Users. Borrowed Assets are subject to recall without notice. Asset lenders retain the right to recall their Assets at any time. We may buy-in Assets on your behalf, without notice to you, to cover short positions in the event the event we cannot borrow Assets or re-borrow Assets after a recall notice. You are liable for any losses or costs incurred in the event of a buy-in, including any associated Transactions commissions or fees.
Interpretations and Definitions
1. Capitalised terms used in this MLFA that are not defined herein, have the meanings given to them in the Terms of Use
| “Asset” | Means any contract, such as a derivative or future contract or any digital asset such as a crypto currency token or a non-fungible token. |
| “Collateral” | Means the Asset you have pledged and charged as security for the grant of Margin. |
| “Liquidation” | Means a forced sale of an Asset belonging to a User arising from either Collateral or Margin not meeting Margin Requirements. |
| “Interest” | Means the prevailing rates of interests charged for the lending of Margin by us to you. |
| “Margin” | means the amount of asset you borrow from us for the purposes of Margin Trading. |
| “Margin Call” | Means an instruction by us, the Company to you, a User to increase the Collateral. |
| “Margin Account” | Means an account where Margin Lending Facility is made available to you, a User. |
| “Margin Trading” | Means engaging in any transaction in which assets are purchased entirely or partially through a Margin Lending Facility extended to you, a User for which your assets act as Collateral. |
| “Margin Lending Facility” | Means the Margin we make available to you subject to the terms under this MLFA. |
| “Margin Requirements” | Means the requirements, limits and the Interests set out in Site for our grant of Margins to your which we may amend from time to time without prior notice to you. |
Loan Facility
1. You may draw upon the available Margin from your Margin Account for Margin Trading or to continue to hold Assets purchased through the Margin extended by this Margin Lending Facility provided that you maintain sufficient Collateral in your Margin Account at all times as required under the Margin Requirements. We will determine the Margin Requirements of your Margin Lending Facility in our sole discretion.
2. You agree that we are entitled to charge you Interest for the Margins we issued to you, in whatever Asset type, such Margins may have been incurred at the rates as specified on our Site and as amended from time to time at our sole discretion regardless of whether prior notification has been given. You agree that we have no obligation to, be held accountable for any amounts you put into your wallet. You undertake to pay all Interests incurred from Margin lending Facility extended to you regardless whether you Account goes into a deficit.
3. Unified and Universal Collateral– When you use our Margin Loan Facilities you agree and accept the unification of the Margin across all Services across and Account with us.
Security Interests
1. All Assets purchased with Margin shall form Collateral. Assets in your Account to the extent sufficient are deemed pledged as Collateral relative to the Margin requested and granted in accordance with the prevailing Margin Requirements.
2. All Collaterals of any kind held by us are hereby pledged to us by you and you grant to us a perfected first-priority lien and security interest in our favour to secure the performance and obligations and liabilities to us arising under this or any other agreement with us to the maximum extent permitted under applicable laws.
Margin Accounts, Margins and automatic Liquidation
1. If at any time your Account does not meet the Margin Requirements we may, without limiting its other rights, sell, close or otherwise liquidate all or part of your positions in any of your Account held with us or with an any agent or broker with no prior notice to you.
2. This Liquidation will usually occur automatically but not withstanding the foregoing, we have no obligation to take any action if your Account does not meet the Margin Requirements.
3. Our Margin Requirements or risk control may include leverage ratio limits or position size limits. If these limits are reached or exceeded, you may not be able to place new orders and you authorise us to liquidate existing positions and/or enter into risk reducing Transactions on your behalf without notice, in order to bring your Account back into compliance with the relevant Margin Requirements.
4. Margins are subject at all times to Margin requirements established by us and you agree and undertake to maintain your Margins within Margin Requirements. We reserve the right to modify Margin Requirements for any and all Users any open or new positions at any time, in our sole discretion without prior notice.
5. You undertake to monitor your Account at all times to ensure that you maintain sufficient Collateral at all times to meet our Margin Requirements.
6. We may reject any order if your Account has insufficient collateral to meet Margin Requirement and can delay processing of any order while determining the Margin status of your Account.
7. The Margin Requirements on our Site is only indicative and does not reflect the actual Margin Requirements which can change rapidly depending on market conditions.
8. If you have multiple Accounts or sub-accounts, we shall have the sole discretion of treating such accounts as either whole or separate for the purposes of applying Margin Requirements. You therefore acknowledge and accept that this may cause the total Margin Requirements to be higher than otherwise indicated and could cause your positions to be liquidated in one Account or sub-account notwithstanding excess Assets in any of the respective Accounts.
9. You will not rely on us to close or liquidate positions in your Account in the event you do not comply with the Margin Requirements. In-particular, you shall not rely on the auto-liquidation rights and systems to function as a stop-loss order. You shall not assume that we shall liquidate positions to prevent you from losing more than you have deposited. Likewise, we may in our sole discretion and our interests delay or decide not to liquidate positions in your Account with a Margin deficit and shall have no liability for any loss you sustain in connection with such delay of or forbearance from Liquidation.
10. For the purposes of determining your compliance with our Margin Requirements, we will in our sole discretion determine the value of positions and Assets in your Account. Our calculations may differ from the valuation and prices disseminated by other markets, and you agree to subject yourself unconditionally to our valuations.
11. These terms and the Margin Requirements are designed to protect the integrity of the market and are not designed to protect you. You understand and agree nonetheless that by using our Margin Lending Facilities you are subjecting yourself to this MLFA and the Margin Requirements. Our failure to apply or enforce any of the terms here in or in the Margin Requirements does not give you any right to bring an action against us and nothing in this Agreement constitutes a warranty or undertaking that we will apply or enforce the Margin Requirements.
Liquidation and Set-Off
1. You agree that we have the right in our sole discretion by not the obligation to Liquidate and/or set-off all or any part of your positions or Assets or Collaterals in any of your accounts, individual or joint, at any time and in any manner without prior notice to you at any time where:
Your account has no Assets are in deficit;
You have insufficient Assets or Collateral to meet Margin Requirements;
We anticipate in our sole discretion that your holding of any position is likely or will result in a future violation of our Margin Requirements;
Where you execute an order for which you do not have sufficient Assets;
Where we determine in our sole discretion that Liquidation is necessary to advisable to protect you;
In an event of default, a breach by one or more terms on your part in this MLFA, our Terms of Use or the Margin Requirements;
Where this agreement is terminated;
Where legal or investigation proceedings are commenced by either party.