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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Money changers

Article L524-4

Any person who has not received prior authorisation from the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may not engage in the business of manual foreign exchange. Any person who has been subject…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definition

Article L522-4

…ng payment services do not constitute funds repayable from the public within the meaning of Article L. 312-2, or funds representing electronic money.The payment institution may not dispose of these fu…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to investment firms

Article L531-4

…credit institutions, which are authorised to provide the investment services referred to in Article L. 321-1 on a regular professional basis. The investment firms defined in the previous paragraph may…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Professional secrecy, accounting and statutory auditing

Article L526-40

Where they carry out other activities pursuant to Article L. 526-3, electronic money institutions shall prepare separate accounting information relating to the activities of issuing and managing elect…

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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 L532-4

…ramme of operations, the AMF assesses the quality of the programme in the light of the obligations set out in Articles L. 533-25 and L. 533-26, as well as the conditions under which the investment ser…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-47

In this section :1° "Third-country firm" means a firm which, if its head office or registered office were situated in a Member State of the European Union, would be either a credit institution providi…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-42

Where a competent authority of a third country fails to comply with a request for information exchange referred to in 2° of Article L. 532-29, the AMF may refer the matter to the European Securities a…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Specific rules concerning third-country companies

Article L532-48

…iana, Martinique, La Réunion, Mayotte or Saint-Martin, the investment services mentioned in Article L. 321-1 and, where applicable, the related services mentioned in Article L. 321-2, to : 1° Non-prof…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Approval of AIFM established in a third country

Article L532-41

Any dispute arising between the Autorité des marchés financiers and the AIFM established in a third country of which France is the reference Member State shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Responsibility of the competent authorities

Article L532-43

I. - The provisions of article L. 532-21-3 are applicable to AIFM established in third countries.II. - The provisions of Article L. 532-25-1 are applicable to portfolio management companies which mana…

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