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Article R163-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

It is an offence for any person responsible in any capacity whatsoever for the management or administration of a credit institution or one of the institutions or services mentioned in Article L. 518-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code, with the exception of the French Treasury, to charge a customer for electronic payment transactions in euros or credit transfers in euros up to a maximum amount of 50,000 euros…

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Article D211-1 A of the French Monetary and Financial Code

I.-The financial contracts referred to in III of Article L. 211-1 are : 1. Options, futures, swaps, forward rate agreements and all other forward contracts relating to financial instruments, currencies, interest rates, yields, units mentioned in article L. 229-7 of the Environment Code, financial indices or financial measures that can be settled by physical delivery or in cash ; 2. Options, futures, swaps, forward rate agreements and any other forward…

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Article R211-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where the securities account is kept by the issuer or the financial securities are entered by the issuer in a shared electronic recording device referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 211-7 and meeting the conditions set out in Article R. 211-9-7, the financial securities are in registered form. When the securities account is held by an intermediary mentioned in Article L. 211-3 or when the financial securities…

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Article R211-3 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Where the issuer is responsible for maintaining securities accounts or registering securities in a shared electronic recording system and appoints an agent for this purpose, it shall publish the name and address of its agent in the Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires, together with the category of financial securities for which the agent is appointed. The conditions under which this agent, when it is a “DLT market infrastructure” within the…

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Article R211-4 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

An owner of registered financial securities may instruct an intermediary referred to in Article L. 211-3 to maintain his securities account with an issuer or to administer the entries appearing in the shared electronic recording device referred to in the same Article. In this case, the entries appearing in this securities account or in the shared electronic recording device also appear in an administration account held by this intermediary. The…

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Article R211-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

Financial securities in mandatory registered form may only be traded on a trading platform once they have been placed in an administration account. Financial securities that are not in registered form may only be traded on a trading platform in bearer form. However, if they are registered in a shared electronic recording system, financial securities may be traded on a trading venue in registered form without necessarily having first been…

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Article R211-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

A central depository shall open accounts for issuers of financial securities admitted to its operations and for intermediaries referred to in Article L. 211-3 who thereby become members. For financial securities admitted to its operations, it ensures delivery by debiting and crediting the accounts opened for its members. Where the central depository is a “DLT market infrastructure” within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2022/858 of the European Parliament and of…

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