The purpose of Rule LR-1.2.11 is to ensure that the core banking activities of deposit taking and providing credit form part of the definition of conventional wholesale banks. However, unlike conventional retail banks, there is no requirement that the activity of providing credit must be a significant part of the bank's business, relative to other activities. This is to allow conventional wholesale banks greater flexibility as to the nature of their activities; it also recognises that, because of the wholesale nature of their client base, there is less need to limit the scale of non-credit related risks to which their depositors may be exposed. Rule LR-1.2.11 does not in any way prevent conventional wholesale banks from developing the provision of credit as a major activity, should they wish to. The Guidance provided in Paragraph LR-1.2.7 with regards to overseas banks is also applicable to Rule LR-1.2.11.