In all advertising, it is forbidden to state that a credit transaction or agreement, or a credit transaction consisting of grouping together previous loans, may be granted without any information enabling the borrower’s financial situation to be assessed, or to imply that the loan improves the borrower’s financial situation or budget, leads to an increase in resources, constitutes a substitute for savings or grants an automatic reserve of immediately available money without any identifiable financial consideration.
When an advertisement compares the amount of the instalments of one or more previous loans, and where applicable other debts, with that of an instalment resulting from a loan consolidation operation, it must clearly and conspicuously state, on the one hand, the sum of the total costs of the previous loans and, on the other hand, the total cost of the loan following the aforementioned operation.