terms for your transactions. In the case of over-the-counter derivatives transactions, for example, the Bank's price for such transactions takes account of and is informed by its hedging activity in respect thereof. Please also note that DBSI maintains informational barriers reasonably designed to prevent our trading units from obtaining knowledge of customer orders handled by other trading units. As such, if you provide us the instruction described in the preceding paragraph, subject to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, DBSI trading units other than those handling your orders may continue to trade on a principal basis at prices that would satisfy your orders. Once the Bank has committed capital to facilitate a customer trade and taken on as principal the risk of such position, the Bank will manage such resulting risk on an individual, portfolio, or other risk parameter basis. The risk management techniques may include, without limitation, trading in the actual assets or securities that the Bank has taken on, trading in assets or securities that are correlated thereto, and establishing derivatives positions on any of the foregoing. Such risk management techniques may also take account of other positions that the Bank has exposure to, including without limitation principal positions, derivative instruments, and collateral positions. In addition to the foregoing, the Bank may establish, maintain, modify and terminate principal positions for its own account in some of the same instruments, or the securities or assets underlying such instruments, in which its customers trade or which may be associated with the other services the Bank provides. The Bank takes these positions based on the ideas of its traders, sales staff, structurers, research staff, as well as from public information sources. These same ideas are often ideas shared with Bank customers and upon which the customers may or may not act. It is possible, therefore, that the Ba