Credit institutions and finance companies shall set up a risk management function that is independent of operational functions and has adequate resources to enable it to carry out its mission.
Credit institutions and finance companies shall appoint a head of the risk management function. Where the head of the risk management function is not a person referred to in Article L. 511-13, nor a deputy chief executive officer nor a member of the management board or any other body exercising equivalent management functions of the credit institution or finance company, he shall have a sufficiently high hierarchical position to enable him to exercise his function independently. They are subject to the provisions of article L. 511-51.