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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

au niveau de placements

English translation:

were already investment clients

Added to glossary by Wyley Powell
Aug 1, 2012 13:14
11 yrs ago
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French term

au niveau de placements

French to English Bus/Financial Investment / Securities
This is a legal case (Quebec) involving a breach of the Securities Act.

The defendant is accused of illegally acting as a dealer and soliciting clients to make investments through him. "Certains des investisseurs étaient déjà des clients du défendeur ***au niveau de placements***.

Not sure what's meant by "au niveau de placements."

TIA
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 phrase ci-dessous
4 +1 with regard to investments
4 +1 for/in respect of investment activities
4 for investment purposes
Change log

Aug 1, 2012 14:49: cc in nyc changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Law: Contract(s)" to "Investment / Securities"

Aug 1, 2012 15:09: Yolanda Broad changed "Term asked" from "phrase below" to "au niveau de placements"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Patrice, Nikki Scott-Despaigne

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Discussion

Nikki Scott-Despaigne Aug 2, 2012:
@Gurudutt In this particular instance, I believe we have sufficient context to make useful suggestions for the expression which is causing a problem for the asker. The expression "au niveau de" can be found in a dictionary and online sources for the meaning. It is then just a matter of adapting the wording to include the expression with the term "placement". The latter term is a general term for "investments". As the original makes no mention here to the type of investment, it is not relevant to start speculating (pun intended) in order to add a specificity in English which is not there in the original.
Gurudutt Kamath Aug 2, 2012:
Placement, Private Placement It is sure to be a breach regarding placement or private placement of securities. However, only with more context can we exactly translate this sentence. Right now, it seems to be (broad, rough translation): Some investors were already customers of the defendant as private placement investors. Or, Some of the investors were already the defendant's customers with private placement investments.
Gurudutt Kamath Aug 2, 2012:
Investments 4 Answerers: Investments -- but what kind of investments? Asker: Can you provide more context? Also, if you have the sections under which he is charged you can read the act and understand the correct breach of the act.
rkillings Aug 2, 2012:
Is he a broker (agent) accused of acting as a dealer (principal, buy and selling for his own account) without proper authorisation? Or a provider of some other kind of investment services?
AllegroTrans Aug 1, 2012:
Asker ProZ questions go into a searcheable database. Please don't put "phrase below" in your question box, but the actual phrase.

Proposed translations

+4
18 mins
French term (edited): phrase below
Selected

phrase ci-dessous

"were already investment clients"

PS : it is best to put a real term in the term header as noone will search the glossary for "phrase below". ;-)


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Note added at 10 hrs (2012-08-01 23:26:57 GMT)
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By the way, I'm not meaning to be sarcastic with the translation in the header, just a fun way to draw attention to the fact that the term/expression itself should go in the header for glossary search purposes.

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Note added at 2 days20 hrs (2012-08-04 09:43:39 GMT) Post-grading
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I think we had all the information we required in terms of context here actually.
Peer comment(s):
agree EirTranslations : This is the simpler solution ;) nice!
32 mins
agree Yvonne Gallagher : [point hopefully made about term headers
42 mins
agree AllegroTrans : hopefully someone will re-gloss both the question and this answer if it gets chosen!
1 hr
agree Patrice
3 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all. I will be more specific in future questions."
+1
9 mins
French term (edited): phrase below

with regard to investments

"Au niveau" me semble vouloir dire ici "en ce qui a trait à", "en ce qui concerne"...
Peer comment(s):
agree Patrice
3 hrs
Thank you
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+1
9 mins
French term (edited): phrase below

for/in respect of investment activities

placement usually refers to investment, sometime placement, as in private placement. In this context, I would assume investment.
Peer comment(s):
agree Patrice
3 hrs
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14 mins
French term (edited): phrase below

for investment purposes

for investments.
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