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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Guarantee for sureties

Article L313-50-2

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution shall determine the method for calculating contributions to the surety guarantee mechanism. These contributions are based on the total guarantee co…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Obligations of directors and shareholders of market undertakings

Article L421-7-2

Market undertakings shall devote adequate human and financial resources to the training of the persons referred to in Article L. 421-7.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions and activities

Article L511-4-2

The institutions referred to in this chapter which hold financial futures instruments the underlying interest of which consists wholly or partly of an agricultural commodity shall indicate in their an…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 1: Infringements of market transparency

Article L465-3-2

I. - Any person who, by any means, disseminates information that gives false or misleading information about the situation or prospects of an issuer or about the supply, demand or price of a financial…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Prohibitions

Article L511-8-2

Any credit institution operating on the markets for financial futures instruments whose underlying asset is, in whole or in part, an agricultural commodity is prohibited from building up physical stoc…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-2

Credit institutions and finance companies whose subsidiaries include at least one credit institution, investment firm or financial institution within the meaning of Article L. 511-21, or which hold an…

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

Article L519-4-2

Before entering 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 r…

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

Article L517-4-2

An intermediate parent undertaking in the European Union is a credit institution or a financial holding company or a mixed financial holding company which has applied for approval in accordance with t…

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

Article L519-3-2

Credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions that provide payment services, payment institutions, intermediaries in banking and payment services, intermediaries in participati…

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

Article L521-3-2

Services based on specific payment instruments, valid only in France, provided at the request of a legal person governed by public or private law or similar, subject to specific legislative or regulat…

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