A retail customer fails the Customer Knowledge Assessment but insists on buying a structured OTC derivative. The licensee may proceed only if:
Notice SFA 04-N12 lets a customer who lacks knowledge or experience proceed only with the enhanced safeguards: advice, or documented acknowledgement of the risks, with senior management approval and communication of the outcome to the customer.
Failing CKA is not a bar; it triggers extra safeguards, not a bypass.
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