(16)To secure the orderly functioning of core infrastructure services within the financial market, a CSD applying for authorisation should provide the competent authority with all necessary information to demonstrate that it has adequate policies and procedures for ensuring reliable record-keeping systems as well as effective mechanisms for CSD services, including in particular the measures for preventing and addressing settlements fails, and the rules concerning the integrity of the issue, the protection of securities of participants and those of their clients, settlement finality, participant default and transfer of participants and clients' assets in case of a withdrawal of authorisation.