{"id":543,"date":"2024-05-31T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/interpretative-circular-of-the-financial-committee-on-the-method-of-calculating-the-cost-of-using-the-services-of-an-intermediary\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:46:04","slug":"fc-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/fc-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretative circular of the Financial Ombudsman on the method of calculating the cost of using the services of a mediator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">CIRCULAR NUMBER: FC 2\/2024<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;Download File &#8211; Interpretative Circular of the Financial Commissioner Circular No. 2-2024.pdf&#8221; style=&#8221;classic&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-file-pdf&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Ffinancialombudsman.org.cy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F01%2F%CE%95%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE-%CE%95%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D-%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%91%CF%81-%CE%95%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-2-2024-%CF%85%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B7.pdf|target:_blank|&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span class=\"fontstyle2\">The Financial Commissioner issues this Interpretative Circular, which shall be referred to as the <\/span><strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">&#8220;Interpretative Circular of the Financial Commissioner (Ombudsman) on how to calculate the cost of using the services of a mediator&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"fontstyle2\">, which sets out the costs for the use of the services of an intermediary appointed, at the request of a debtor, for the purpose of restructuring credit facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">2. Pursuant to Article 14C(5) of the Law on the Establishment and Operation of the Unified Body for the Out-of-Court Settlement of Financial Disputes of 2010, as amended and\/or replaced from time to time (hereinafter &#8220;the Law&#8221;):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">&#8220;The cost of using the services of the intermediary may not exceed five hundred euros (\u20ac500) and shall be distributed twenty percent (20%) to the debtor and eighty percent (80%) to the licensed institution or credit buyer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontstyle3\">It is understood that the Commissioner may, with his interpretive circular, as defined in subsection (12), determine the method of calculating the cost for the use of the mediator&#8217;s services.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">3. Accordingly, and subject to section 14C(5) of the Law, the <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">the Financial Commissioner shall determine the manner of calculation of the cost of <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">use of the services of the ombudsman as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">(a) For credit facilities under restructuring, up to one hundred thousand <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">(\u20ac100,000), the mediator&#8217;s fee shall be set at four hundred euros <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">(\u20ac400), of which the debtor shall pay the intermediary the <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">eighty euros (\u20ac80) and the licensed institution or the buyer of credit shall pay <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">three hundred and twenty euros (\u20ac320)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">(b) For credit facilities under restructuring in the amount of more than one hundred thousand euros (\u20ac100,000), the mediator&#8217;s fee is set at five hundred euros (\u20ac500), of which the debtor must pay the mediator one hundred euros (\u20ac100 ) and the licensed institution or credit buyer four hundred euros (\u20ac400).<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circulars","category-mediations","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialombudsman.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}