In the context of this Chapter, outsourcing means an arrangement whereby a third party performs on behalf of a licensee an activity which would normally be undertaken by the licensee itself (or in the case of a new activity, one which commonly would have been performed internally by the licensee) as part of the offering of regulated financial services. Examples of services that are sometimes outsourced include data processing, cloud services, customer call centres and back-office related activities.
Amended: October 2017
January 2014