Client Money We are not authorised to handle client money; any payments received from you or which need to be refunded to you, will be held by Coversure Insurance Services Limited. Client money is money that is received and held on behalf of our clients during the course of our dealings such as premium payments, premium refunds and claim payments. This money will be held either as agent of the insurer or agent of the client, determined by the agreement in place with each insurer. Where money is held as agent of the insurer, this means that when your cleared premium funds are received, the premium is deemed to have been paid to the insurer. The FCA require that all client monies, including yours, are held in a trust account, the purpose of which is to protect you in the event of our financial failure since, in such circumstances, our general creditors would not be able to make claims on client money as it will not form part of our assets. Coversure Insurance Services Limited hold all client monies with one or more approved banks, as defined by the FCA, in a Non-Statutory Trust bank account in accordance with the FCA client money rules. Under these arrangements, Coversure Insurance Services Limited assume responsibility for such monies and are permitted to, and may: • Use such monies received on behalf of one customer to pay another customer’s premium, before the premium is received from that other customer. However, we are not entitled to pay ourselves commissions before we receive the relevant premium from the customer; • For the purpose of effecting a transaction on your behalf, pass your money to another intermediary, including those resident outside the UK who would therefore be subject to different legal and regulatory regimes. In the event of a failure of the intermediary, this money may be treated in a different manner from that which would apply if the money were held by an intermediary in the UK. Please inform us if you do not agree to this. • Retain for our own use, any interest earned on client money. Unless we receive your written instruction to the contrary, we shall treat receipt of payment from you and of any claim payment and/or refund of premium which falls due to you, as being with your informed consent to the payment of those moneys into our Non-Statutory Trust bank account.
