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Record Keeping Comply with regulated record keeping requirements

An FSP loses client records to a system crash and has no backup. Which Fit and Proper requirement is breached?

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  1. a) Competence, because the loss reflects poor representative product knowledge.
  2. b) Financial soundness, because the lost data was a capital asset.
  3. c) Operational ability, in its business-continuity and data-management dimension, which should have prevented the loss.Correct
  4. d) Honesty and integrity, because losing data is always deliberate.

Why this is the answer

Losing records with no backup is a failure of operational ability — business continuity and data management. It is not a solvency issue, not a reflection of product competence, and accidental loss is not in itself dishonesty.

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