insufficient to satisfy customer claims in full, customers would continue to have a claim against the proprietary assets of the broker-dealer. Notwithstanding point (b) of paragraph 2 of Article 15 of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation, when we use your Customer Assets, they continue to be included on your account statement reflecting their status as Customer Assets, and we may not identify to you the financial instruments that we have used. If we are a broker-dealer or FCM, our exercise of our right to use Customer Assets has no effect on the nature of your property interest in the financial instruments or on your rights as a customer in the event of our insolvency. The amount of your customer claim in a broker-dealer or FCM insolvency proceeding is a function of the value of assets held in your account and the amount of your obligations to us, if any. In a broker-dealer or FCM insolvency proceeding, all customers generally receive the same pro rata share of their claims based on Customer Assets (and customer cash), regardless of whether their financial instruments were subject to use or were used by the broker-dealer or FCM. (In the case of an FCM insolvency, customers are separated into several account classes based on product type, and recoveries may vary across account classes. Customers within the same account class receive the same pro rata share of all customer claims within that class.) In the insolvency of a U.S. banking organization, Custodial Assets are generally returned to their owners to the extent such assets are available for distribution. Your consent to our use of your financial instruments may prevent them from being treated as Custodial Assets, and it may jeopardize your right to obtain their retum in the event of our insolvency. Collateral Arrangements with respect to Non-Customer Assets can take a variety of forms with differing legal characterizations and practical consequences. Generally, a title transfer c