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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: External control

Article L518-15-2

…It may issue the formal notices provided for in article L. 612-31 and the penalties provided for in 1° and 2° of article L. 612-39. It may also impose, instead of or in addition to the penalties provi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-16

…L. 612-32. In addition to these measures, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may: 1° Suspend the exercise of voting rights attached to shares held in subsidiary institutions by the f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial conglomerates

Article L517-6

The regulated entities referred to in 1° of Article L. 517-2 belonging to a financial conglomerate are subject to the supplementary supervision provided for in this subsection and in Articles L. 633-1…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Membership and operation of professional associations of banking and payment services intermediaries

Article L519-11

…to join an approved professional association provided for in I of this article does not apply to : 1° Exclusive banking and payment services agents who act as intermediaries under a mandate from a cr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-13

…utorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall verify that the following conditions are met: 1° The internal arrangements and allocation of tasks within the group are appropriate to the objecti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial conglomerates

Article L517-3

…h groups. II. - A group constitutes a financial conglomerate when the following conditions are met: 1° A regulated entity is at the head of the group or at least one of the group's subsidiaries is a r…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-3

…vices based on means of payment that are accepted, for the acquisition of goods or services, only : 1° On the premises of that undertaking or, under a commercial agreement with it, in a limited networ…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Tasks

Article L518-7

…r times a year, the Supervisory Board is convened by its Chairman to discuss the following matters: 1° The strategic orientations of the public institution and its subsidiaries, including the medium-t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter I: Payment service providers

Article L521-3-1

…electronic communications services to a subscriber to that network or service, for the execution of:1° Payment transactions carried out for the purchase of digital content and voice services, regardle…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Approval of financial holding companies, mixed financial holding companies and parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-14

…de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution is not required when all the following conditions are met: 1° The principal activity of the financial holding company or the parent undertaking of a finance co…

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