NORVIK BANKA is a member of Investors Protection System. License Registration number is 06.01.04.007/210. Credit institution operating licence is issued by the Financial and Capital Market Commission.
1. Who is an investor?
An investor is bank’s customer, who gives money or financial instruments to the bank for execution of deals with financial instruments or provision of other investment services.
2. How are interests of investors protected?
The Law on Protection of Investors envisages allowance of compensation to investors in cases, when the bank is not able to meet its obligations towards the investor in full amount and terms.
3. What is an amount of compensation?
The amount of compensation paid to one investor is 90% of:
Value of irrecoverably lost financial instruments. The Law on Protection of Investors states that irrecoverable loss of financial instruments is a fact established by the Financial and Capital Market Commission stating that data confirming investor’s ownership for financial instruments being located in bank’s computer system or kept recorded other way are destroyed or damaged irreversibly due some action or inaction or crime and the bank rejects to renew this data according to documents presented by the investor;
Losses caused by non-fulfillment of investment service. The Law on Protection of Investors states that unfulfilled investment service is an investment service undertaken by the bank for implementation that hasn’t been fulfilled in full amount or partially, and it caused damages or irrecoverable loss of financial instruments to the investor.
The amount of compensation is stated by:
In case of irrecoverable loss of financial instruments – according to market price of financial instruments belonging to the investor on the day, when application on irrecoverable loss of financial instruments was submitted to the Financial and Capital Market Commission. If it is not possible to establish market price on the day, when the application was submitted, then last available market price of financial instruments that was in force before the day of submitting of application is used;
In case of unfulfilled investment service – according to losses caused to the investor by unfulfilled investment service.
Compensation paid to one investor must not exceed the amount of EUR 20.000, which are converted in Lats according to the currency exchange rate established by the Bank of Latvia on the day, when decision about validity of application for compensation was made.
Compensation is paid in Lats.
4. What should be done to receive compensation?
The investor must submit an application for receipt of compensation the Financial and Capital Market Commission.
The Financial and Capital Market Commission establishes the procedure of admission of the application.
The Financial and Capital Market Commission reviews the application for receipt of compensation submitted by the investor in 30 days and decides about validity of allowance of compensation or about refusal for allowance of compensation.
The application for receipt of compensation must be submitted in one year from the moment, when the investor got to know that the bank didn’t meet its obligations, but not later than in five years since the day of non-fulfillment of obligations.
5. How and when is the compensation paid?
Procedure of allowance of compensation is established by the Financial and Capital Market Commission. The Financial and Capital Market Commission publishes information about procedure and terms of allowance of compensation in newspaper "Latvijas Vēstnesis" and at least in one daily newspaper.
The Law on Protection of Investors states that compensation must be paid in three months from the day, when the decision about admission of validity of the application for compensation is made. In exceptional cases and special circumstances the Financial and Capital Market Commission may prolong this term for three months.
6. The compensation is not paid:
To person for deals, in relation to which verdict of guilty in criminal case about money laundering was passed;
To banks, insurance companies, investment companies or other investors considered to be professional investors;
To persons included in one holding with bank, pension funds, public and municipal companies, as well as responsible officials of bank stated in the Law on Protection of Investors, who directly or indirectly received more than five percents of bank’s capital, their relatives and spouses;
To persons, in relation to whom Financial and Capital Market Commission established that on the basis of special conditions of agreement signed individually, these persons received high interest rates or financial concession or caused or used for their benefit circumstances, if such circumstances caused financial difficulties to the bank or aggravation of its financial position.
