Subsection 5: Obligations of intermediary payment service providers and cooperation obligations

Intermediary payment service providers shall ensure that all information received on the payer and payee which accompanies a transfer of funds is retained with that transfer.

I.-The intermediary payment service provider shall apply effective procedures to detect whether the fields relating to information on the payer and payee provided for in the messaging or payment and settlement system used to effect a transfer of funds have been filled in using characters or elements that are permissible under the conventions of that system. The intermediary payment service provider shall apply effective procedures including, where applicable, a posteriori…

In compliance with the procedures set out in Title VI of Book V, payment service providers shall respond fully and without delay to requests for information on the payer and payee sent to them by the department referred to in Article L. 561-23, the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, the judicial authorities and criminal investigation officers. The information communicated pursuant to the first paragraph may only be used…