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Perimeter

Eight bright lines and the regulatory firewall. Howey, Reves, partnership, foreign overlays.

  1. 01Eight bright linesThe non-negotiable rules.
  2. 02Howey, appliedFour-element US securities test.
  3. 03Reves, appliedFamily-resemblance test for note-like instruments.
  4. 04Credits-vs-positions firewallWhy credits are commodities and positions are not.
  5. 05Partnership characterizationWhy this is not an investment partnership.
  6. 06Foreign jurisdictions overlayHow the perimeter maps onto non-US regimes.
  7. 07Pre-deployment self-checkChecklist a pilot must pass before going live.