Article 16 of the Regulations on the Administration of Futures Business Department (Trial) stipulates that the business department shall strengthen the management of account opening and contract, and shall meet the following requirements:
(1) The business department shall designate a special signatory to sign futures brokerage contracts with investors, and the signatory shall be authorized by the futures company;
(2) The business department shall strictly implement the futures brokerage contract management system of the futures company, and establish a ledger of receiving, sending, archiving and borrowing records of futures brokerage contracts;
(3) The business department shall use the futures brokerage contracts that are continuously numbered and uniformly printed by the futures company;
(4) The futures brokerage contract signed by the business department is in triplicate, with the futures company, the business department and the investor holding one copy respectively, and the contents of the futures brokerage contract are complete and standardized;
(5) A futures company shall establish a two-level audit system for investors' account opening, and the relevant responsible persons of the business department shall sign and leave marks on the account opening materials;
(6) The business department shall, within 1 month after the completion of the investor's account opening, submit the text of the investor's account opening information to the headquarters of the futures company, and keep the relevant information text or electronic document for the agency where the business department is located to consult;
(7) The business department shall uniformly apply for trading codes for investors through the headquarters of the futures company, allocate capital accounts, and uniformly maintain the investor account opening information in the trading settlement system of the futures company.