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Title I: Banking, payment services and the issuance and management of electronic money

Article L311-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – Credit institutions may also carry out transactions related to their business, such as : 1. Foreign exchange transactions ; 2. Transactions in gold, precious metals and coins; 3. Investment, subscription, purchase, management, custody and sale of securities and all financial products; 4. Asset management advice and assistance; 5. Advice and assistance in financial management, financial engineering and, in general, all services intended to facilitate the creation and development…

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Article L311-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Means of payment include all instruments that enable any person to transfer funds, regardless of the medium or technical process used. The operations of providing customers with or managing means of payment include the payment banking services mentioned in article L. 311-1 , the activities of issuing and managing electronic money and the payment services listed in II of article L. 314-1.

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Article L311-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Issuers and managers of complementary local currency securities are subject to Title I of Book V when the issue or management of these securities falls within the scope of the payment banking services mentioned in Article L. 311-1, or to Title II of the same book when they fall within the scope of payment services within the meaning of II of Article L. 314-1 or electronic money within the meaning…

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Article L311-7 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For the purposes of this Title, a durable medium is any instrument which enables the customer or professional to store information addressed personally to him so that he can refer to it at a later date for a period of time appropriate to the purposes for which the information is intended, and which allows identical reproduction of the information stored.

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Article L311-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Subject to the provisions of IIIa of Article L. 533-12, where the professional wishes to make available or provide the customer with information or documents on a durable medium other than paper, the professional shall first check that this method of communication is appropriate to the customer’s situation; he shall ensure that the customer is able to take cognisance of this information and documents on the durable medium envisaged. After…

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Article L311-9 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Unless this is incompatible with the nature of the contract concluded or the financial service provided, the customer may, immediately and at any time during the contractual relationship, object by any means to the use of a durable medium other than paper and request, free of charge, to be provided with a paper medium. He may also carry out all the formalities and obligations incumbent upon him on any other…

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Article L311-10 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where the professional provides the customer with information and documents via a secure personal space on the Internet, he shall inform the customer of the existence and availability of this information and documents on the secure personal space by any means appropriate to the customer’s situation.

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