The Institut d’émission d’outre-mer may contact directly companies and professional groups that are willing to participate in its surveys. These voluntary companies and professional groups provide the Institute with information on their financial situation.
The Institute may communicate all or part of the information it holds on the financial situation of companies to other central banks, to the tax departments of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands for their economic missions, to the local economic or financial departments of the said authorities involved in preventing and dealing with company difficulties, to credit institutions and finance companies, to portfolio management companies, to intermediaries in participative financing when they exercise intermediation within the meaning of Article L. 548-1 for loan transactions against payment or free of charge, providers of participative financing services and credit insurance companies governed by locally applicable equivalent provisions having the same purpose in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, provided that their interventions are aimed at companies.