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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L522-14

Payment institutions are required to comply with management standards designed to ensure their solvency and the balance of their financial structure. They must also have an adequate internal control s…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L522-18

Payment institutions shall provide their customers, and any other person who so requests, with all relevant information on the procedures for protecting the funds collected. Customers are informed of…

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

Article L521-10

I. - Payment service providers shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution of any major operational incident without undue delay. II. - Payment service providers shall inform the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-10

Where an electronic money institution carries out activities of a hybrid nature within the meaning of Article L. 526-3 or activities referred to in Articles L. 525-4 or L. 525-5, the Autorité de contr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Prudential provisions

Article L522-16

Any payment institution intending to outsource operational functions of payment services shall inform the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution.Important operational functions may not be ou…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: General information

Article L525-1

Electronic money issuers are electronic money institutions and credit institutions.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-18

The removal of an electronic money institution from the list of authorised electronic money institutions may be ordered as a disciplinary sanction by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résoluti…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-15

The withdrawal of an electronic money institution's authorisation may also be decided ex officio by the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution if the institution:1° Does not make use of the…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Approval

Article L526-17

In the cases provided for in Articles L. 526-14 and L. 526-15, the funds of electronic money holders collected by an electronic money institution are returned to the holders or transferred to a credit…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L532-16

In this section and for the application of the provisions relating to freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services :1. The expression "competent authorities" means the authorities of a Mem…

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