In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Director,” the director of insurance;

(2) “Agent,” an individual, other than a broker-dealer, who represents a broker-dealer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities or represents an issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of the issuer’s securities. But a partner, officer, or director of a broker-dealer or issuer, or an individual having a similar status or performing similar functions is an agent only if the individual otherwise comes within the term. The term does not include an individual excluded by rule adopted or order issued under this chapter;

(3) “Bank,”:

(A) A banking institution organized under the laws of the United States;

(B) A member bank of the Federal Reserve System;

(C) Any other banking institution, whether incorporated or not, doing business under the laws of a state or of the United States, a substantial portion of the business of which consists of receiving deposits or exercising fiduciary powers similar to those permitted to be exercised by national banks under the authority of the comptroller of the currency pursuant to Section 1 of Public Law 87-722 (12 U.S.C. § 92a), and which is supervised and examined by a state or federal agency having supervision over banks, and which is not operated for the purpose of evading this chapter; and

(D) A receiver, conservator, or other liquidating agent of any institution or firm included in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C);

(4) “Broker-dealer,” a person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others or for the person’s own account. The term does not include:

(A) An agent;

(B) An issuer;

(C) A bank or savings institution if its activities as broker-dealer are limited to those specified in subsection 3(a)(4) and 3(a)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78c(a)(4) and (5)), or a bank that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 3(a)(4)(E) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78c(a)(4));

(D) An international banking institution; or

(E) A person excluded by rule adopted or order issued under this chapter;

(5) “Depository institution,”:

(A) A bank; or

(B) A savings institution, trust company, credit union, or similar institution that is organized or chartered under the laws of a state or of the United States, authorized to receive deposits, and supervised and examined by an official or agency of a state or the United States if its deposits or share accounts are insured to the maximum amount authorized by statute by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, or a successor authorized by federal law. The term does not include:

(i) An insurance company or other organization primarily engaged in the business of insurance;

(ii) A Morris Plan bank; or

(iii) An industrial loan company;

(6) “Federal covered investment adviser,” a person registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;

(7) “Federal covered security,” a security that is, or upon completion of a transaction will be, a covered security under Section 18(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. § 77r(b)) or rules or regulations adopted pursuant to that provision;