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Article L420-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-A trading venue is a regulated market within the meaning of Article L. 421-1, a multilateral trading facility within the meaning of Article L. 424-1 or an organised trading facility within the meaning of Article L. 425-1. A trading platform manager is a market undertaking or an investment services provider other than a portfolio management company authorised to provide the investment services referred to in Articles 8 and 9 of…

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Article L420-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The manager of a trading platform does not commit its own capital or trade by matching with its own account on the platforms it manages. Proprietary trading is a form of trading in which a person, the facilitator, acts as an intermediary between the buyer and the seller involved in the trade, so that there is no exposure to market risk throughout the execution of the trade, both sides are…

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Article L420-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue shall put in place effective systems, procedures and mechanisms to ensure that its trading systems are resilient, have sufficient capacity to handle high volumes of orders and messages and allow for an orderly trading process during periods of market stress. These trading systems are tested to confirm that these conditions are met in situations of extreme market volatility. The operator of a…

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Article L420-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue shall enter into written contracts with all investment service providers other than portfolio management companies that apply a market-making strategy, within the meaning of 3° of Article L. 533-10-3, on the trading venue and shall put in place arrangements to ensure that a sufficient number of investment service providers enter into such contracts. These contracts shall require these investment services providers, where…

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Article L420-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The operator of a trading venue shall ensure that its rules on collocation services are transparent, fair and non-discriminatory, in accordance with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/573 of 6 June 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments by technical regulatory standards as regards requirements to ensure that collocation services and fee structures are fair and non-discriminatory.

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Article L420-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue shall ensure that its pricing structures, including execution fees, ancillary fees and any rebates, are transparent, fair and non-discriminatory and do not create incentives to submit, modify or cancel orders or execute trades in a way that contributes to disorderly trading conditions or leads to market abuse. To this end, the rates for cancelled orders may be adapted according to the length…

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Article L420-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue shall implement quotation step regimes for shares, representative certificates, listed funds, preferential certificates and other similar financial instruments, as well as for any other instruments in accordance with the provisions of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/588 of 14 July 2016 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments by regulatory technical standards concerning the…

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Article L420-9 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue shall establish and maintain arrangements and procedures, including the necessary resources, to monitor on a regular basis the compliance of its members with the rules of the trading venue and the orderly conduct of transactions on the trading venue. It shall monitor orders transmitted, including cancellations, and transactions carried out by members on the trading platform, with a view to detecting any…

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Article L420-10 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – The operator of a trading venue may suspend or delist a financial instrument from trading for a specified period of time if the instrument or the conditions under which it is traded no longer comply with the rules of the venue, unless such action is likely to significantly harm the interests of investors or jeopardise the orderly operation of the venue. The issuer of a financial instrument admitted…

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