Fraud: Representation of falsehoods, or distortion or suppression of the truth in order to obtain an illegal financial advantage for oneself or a third party.

Corruption: Corruption applies to situations in which a public office, economic function or political mandate is misused for the benefit of another either at the instigation of the advantaged person or autonomously for the purpose of gaining a personal advantage or an advantage for a third party and the occurrence or expected occurrence of the situation incurs damage or disadvantages to the general public (in an official or political function) or a company (in an economic function).
Examples: Bribing and accepting bribes, inappropriate relationships with suppliers or customers, misuse of confidential information

Breach of trust: Misuse of the authorisation to dispose of another party's assets or violation of the obligation to act in order with the financial interests of another party.
Example: Bypassing of guidelines during the provision of credit; unauthorised use or abuse of company money or insolvency assets, e.g. by kickback transactions that are contrary to good faith; establishment of slush funds for bribes

Money laundering refers to the channelling of illegally earned money into the legal financial and economic system. The financing of terrorism is the acquisition, storage and hiding of funds used to finance terrorist organisations and infrastructures and the transfer of such means for supporting or carrying out concrete terrorist attacks.

Violations of sanctions or embargos: Direct or indirect breaches of embargos issued by the United Nations, European Union or the Federal Republic of Germany.
Examples (depending on embargo provision): Payments or mere provision of economic resources (perhaps in the form of insurance services) to individuals who are listed on embargo lists; providing insurance for goods which are prohibited from being shipped to the respective country; providing insurance for facilities which are the cause for the embargo

Insider trading and disclosure of insider information: A transaction is considered an insider deal if one person possesses insider information and uses it to acquire or sell the relating financial instruments directly or indirectly for their own account or the account of others.
Example: attempted or successful execution of insider trading; encouragement or instigation of third parties to engage in insider trading, and unlawful disclosure of insider information.

Market manipulation: Interference with the price of financial instruments by way of false or misleading information, fictitious transactions or other acts of deception.
Examples: Activities carried out by one person or several people acting in consultation to force up the price of a financial instrument and sell off the own stocks of this financial instrument in large quantities (“pumping and dumping”); Dissemination of information that can or does send wrong or misleading signals regarding financial instruments via the media (including the internet) or other means, including the spread of rumours or false/misleading news, if the person responsible for disseminating this information knows or should have known that it is false or misleading

Breaches of capital investment legislation: For reporting potential or actual breaches of the code of law pertaining to capital investments and all decrees related to it, violations of directly applicable provisions stipulated in European Union legal acts, or potential criminal acts taking place in the capital management company.