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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 L532-1

…nies must obtain authorisation. This authorisation is issued by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution. It is not required for the sole purpose of providing one or more of the services m…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Representative offices of investment firms

Article L532-14

…son or representative offices in France, they must first notify the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, which will inform the Autorité des marchés financiers. These offices shall state t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-19

…investment service provider benefiting from the regime provided for in Article L. 532-18-1, the competent authorities of the home country to which it belongs may require its branches established in Fr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions common to investment firms and portfolio management companies relating to professional secrecy

Article L531-12

…aw so provides, professional secrecy may not be invoked against the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Banque de France, the Institut d'émission…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: European investment service providers

Article L532-18

…621-18-1, the persons mentioned in the previous paragraph are treated as investment service providers.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Withdrawal of approval and deregistration

Article L532-12

…list of approved portfolio management companies as a sanction by the Autorité des marchés financiers.Deregistration entails the liquidation of the legal entity if it has its registered office in Fran…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-17

An investment service provider other than an asset management company who receives an instruction to perform investment or related services on behalf of a client from another investment service provid…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-19

…l instruments to which they relate, according to the time at which they are received by the providers.After executing a transaction on behalf of their clients, ISPs shall inform clients where the orde…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-16

…cedures according to which non-professional clients may request to be treated as professional clients.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-15

…the costs associated with the transactions carried out and the services provided on behalf of clients.II - Investment service providers other than portfolio management companies that provide the inves…

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