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 registration in the file referred to in Article L. 546-1 and, where applicable, the existence of financial and economic links with one or more credit institutions, finance companies, payment or electronic money institutions that provide payment services, intermediaries in participative financing and providers of participative financing services.
He must also inform the customer whether he is under a contractual obligation to work exclusively with one or more credit institutions, finance companies, payment institutions or electronic money institutions that provide payment services, intermediaries in participative financing, providers of participative financing services and inform him that the names of these institutions or companies may be communicated to him at his request.