Class 36: Financial
Nice Classification services class, NCL 13-2026.
Class heading
Financial, monetary and banking services; insurance services; real estate services
Explanatory note
Class 36 includes mainly services relating to banking and other financial transactions, financial valuation services, as well as insurance and real estate activities.
This class includes, in particular:
- financial transaction and payment services, for example, exchanging money, electronic funds transfer, processing of credit card and debit card payments, issuance of travellers' cheques
- financial management and research
- financial appraisals, for example, jewellery, art and real estate appraisal, repair costs evaluation
- cheque verification
- financing and credit services, for example, loans, issuance of credit cards, hire- or lease-purchase financing
- crowdfunding
- safe deposit services
- financial sponsorship
- real estate agency services, real estate management, rental of apartments, rent collection
- insurance underwriting, actuarial services
- brokerage services, for example, securities, insurance and real estate brokerage, brokerage of carbon credits, pawnbrokerage
This class does not include, in particular:
- administration services relating to business transactions and financial records, for example, book-keeping, drawing up of statements of accounts, business and financial auditing, business appraisals, tax preparation and filing services (Class 35)
- sponsorship search, promotion of goods and services through sponsorship of sports events (Class 35)
- cash replenishment of automated teller machines (Class 39)
- freight brokerage, transport brokerage (Class 39)
- quality evaluation of wool and standing timber (Class 42)
Common terms in Class 36
A sample of official terms from the WIPO alphabetical list. Search the full list in the Nice Class Finder.
- actuarial services
- antique appraisal
- art appraisal
- bail-bonding
- banking
- brokerage
- business brokerage
- capital investment
- car broker services
- charitable fund raising
- cheque verification
- credit bureau services
- crowdfunding
- debt advisory services
- deposits of valuables
- exchanging money
- factoring
- financial advice
- financial analysis
- financial clearing
- financial consultancy
- financial engineering
- financial management
- financial patronage
- financial research
- financial sponsorship
- financing services
- fiscal valuation
- hire-purchase financing
- instalment loans
Indicative only. Classification and specifications should be confirmed by an attorney before filing. This is general information, not legal advice.