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Article L517-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

A financial holding company is a financial institution within the meaning of Article L. 511-21 whose subsidiaries are exclusively or mainly institutions or financial institutions, at least one of these subsidiaries being an institution, and which is not a mixed financial holding company. For the purposes of the previous paragraph, the word “institution” shall be understood within the meaning of Article 4(1)(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European…

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Article L517-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

For the purposes of the supplementary supervision provided for in Chapter III of Title III of Book VI, the following definitions shall apply 1° Regulated entity : a) A credit institution referred to in Article L. 511-1 ; b) A company referred to in Article L. 310-1 of the Insurance Code, a mutual insurance company or a union governed by Book II of the Mutual Insurance Code or a provident…

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Article L517-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I. – For the purposes of the supplementary supervision provided for in Chapter III of Title III of Book VI, “group” means: a group referred to in III of Article L. 511-20 or an insurance group referred to in 5° of Article L. 356-1 of the Insurance Code or any sub-group of such groups. II. – A group constitutes a financial conglomerate when the following conditions are met: 1° A…

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Article L517-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

A mixed financial holding company is a parent undertaking, other than a regulated entity, which has its registered office in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and which, together with its subsidiaries, at least one of which is a regulated entity, forms a financial conglomerate.

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Article L517-4-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

A mixed-activity holding company is a parent undertaking other than an establishment, a financial holding company or a mixed-activity financial holding company, which includes at least one establishment among its subsidiaries. For the purposes of the previous paragraph, the word “establishment” shall be understood within the meaning of Article 4(1)(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013. A mixed parent…

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Article L517-4-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

An intermediate parent undertaking in the European Union is a credit institution or a financial holding company or a mixed financial holding company which has applied for approval in accordance with the provisions of L. 517-13, whose subsidiaries, which are exclusively or mainly credit institutions or investment firms, are part of a group whose parent undertaking is established in a third country and which, for at least two of these…

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Article L517-4-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

An investment holding company is a financial institution the subsidiaries of which are exclusively or mainly investment firms or financial institutions, at least one of which is an investment firm which is not a financial holding company within the meaning of point 20 of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013. An EU parent investment holding company is an investment holding company in a Member State which is part of…

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