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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 L511-41-1

…of a credit institution or a finance company is a credit institution, an investment firm, a financial holding company, a mixed financial holding company or a parent undertaking of a finance company wh…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 7: Prudential provisions

Article L511-41-4

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution may require credit institutions and finance companies to publish more than once a year, within the timeframes it determines, the information referr…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 6: Accounting provisions.

Article R511-7

Article R. 511-6 does not apply to establishments mentioned in articles L. 511-22 and L. 511-23.

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Governance of credit institutions and finance companies

Article R511-26

The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution collects the information referred to in Articles L. 511-98 and L. 511-99 published by credit institutions and finance companies, under the conditio…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Governance of credit institutions and finance companies

Article R511-23

Credit institutions and finance companies shall require the instruments referred to in Article L. 511-81 to be held for a minimum period defined under the conditions set out in Article L. 511-72 in or…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article R511-2-2

When the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution assesses the good repute of the persons mentioned in Article L. 511-51 in accordance with Articles L. 511-10 or R. 511-3-1, it consults the ce…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 8: Governance of credit institutions and finance companies

Article R511-25

The deferred instruments referred to in Article L. 511-79 are equity instruments, debt instruments or other instruments referred to in Article L. 511-81.Credit institutions and finance companies updat…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Bills of exchange.

Article R511-11

On filing of the documents mentioned in Article L. 511-58, the Registrar shall remove the registration from the form and enter in column 9 of the chronological register the removal entry provided for…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for admission to the profession.

Article R511-4

When a financial institution has provided evidence to the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution that it meets the conditions set out in the second paragraph of Article L. 511-28, the Autori…

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