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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Rules of good conduct

Article L519-4-2

…ntering into a banking transaction or payment service, the intermediary referred to in Article L. 519-1 must provide the customer with information relating in particular to his identity, his registrat…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Intermediary parent companies

Article L517-4-2

…or investment firms, are part of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country and which, for at least two of these subsidiaries, are located within the territory of the European…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and registration requirements

Article L519-3-2

…c money institutions that provide payment services, payment institutions, intermediaries in banking and payment services, intermediaries in participative financing, providers of participative financin…

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

Article L521-3-2

…r similar, subject to specific legislative or regulatory provisions or a special public law regime, and enabling the acquisition of specific categories of goods or services from suppliers who have con…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Article L518-2-1

Caisse des dépôts et consignations may issue the debt securities referred to in Article L. 211-1, II, 2.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Management mandates

Article L518-24-1

…tioned in Article L. 518-2, may, after authorisation from the ministers responsible for the economy and the budget and by written agreement, be mandated by the State, its public establishments, public…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: External control

Article L518-15-2

…résolution shall ensure, under the conditions set out in Articles L. 612-17, L. 612-23 to L. 612-27 and L. 612-44, that the banking and financial activities carried out by Caisse des dépôts et consign…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Registration of account information service providers

Article L522-11-2

…ôle prudentiel et de résolution shall verify that the provider meets the requirements set out in II and a of III of Article L. 522-6, II of Article L. 522-7-1 and I of Article L. 522-8 and that the pe…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: French FIA portfolio management companies

Article L532-25-1

I. - Any portfolio management company having its registered office in mainland France, the French overseas departments, Saint-Martin and the Department of Mayotte and authorised to manage an AIF cover…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions and procedures for authorisation of investment service providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L532-3-2

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 229-4 of the Commercial Code, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution also has the power to oppose, in accordance with the provisions of…

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