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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 L519-16

Bank and payment services intermediaries shall inform the association of which they are members of any change in the information concerning them and of any fact that may affect their membership of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-section 3: Mixed holding companies and mixed parent companies of finance companies

Article L517-4-1

…ood within the meaning of Article 4(1)(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013.A mixed parent undertaking of a finance company is a parent under…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Tasks

Article L518-7

…delegation. It is provided with sufficient resources to ensure the proper performance of its duties and the mandate of its members, in accordance with the conditions set out in its internal regulation…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Remuneration of deposits and consignments

Article L518-23

The rate and method of calculation of interest on deposit accounts opened with the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and on sums deposited with the said Caisse are set by decision of the General Mana…

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

Article L519-1

I.-Intermediation in banking transactions and payment services is the activity of presenting, proposing or assisting in the conclusion of banking transactions or payment services or carrying out any w…

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

Article L521-3

…s it to the Banque de France, in order to demonstrate compliance with the aforementioned provisions and the security of the means of payment they issue and manage. As soon as a company plans to no lon…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Financial conglomerates

Article L517-3

…ntity is at the head of the group or at least one of the group's subsidiaries is a regulated entity and : a) where a regulated entity is at the head of the group, it is either the parent undertaking o…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Investment holding companies

Article L517-4-3

…any is an investment holding company in a Member State which is part of a group of investment firms and which is not itself a subsidiary of an investment firm authorised in a Member State or of anothe…

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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

…l 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 objective of complying with prudenti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Tasks

Article L518-8

The Supervisory Board has an Investment Committee and other specialised committees, the list and powers of which are set out in its internal regulations.The role of the Investment Committee is to over…

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