I. – The banking and payment services intermediaries referred to in 2° and 3° of the I of article R. 519-4 and their agents referred to in 4° of the same I, carrying out an intermediation activity in addition to providing a product or service as part of their professional activity, must provide evidence of the professional skills resulting from :
1° Either a diploma attesting to a first cycle of higher education at a level corresponding to level 5 of the national framework of professional qualifications;
2° or six months’ professional experience in roles related to the performance of banking transactions or payment services, acquired during the two years preceding registration in the single register referred to in Article L. 546-1 ;
3° Or sufficient professional training, adapted to banking and payment services, taken :
a) With a credit institution, finance company, payment institution, electronic money institution providing payment services or insurance company ;
b) A training organisation chosen by the person concerned, their employer or, where applicable, their principal, in accordance with the conditions specified by order of the Minister for the Economy.
II. – By way of exception to I, the intermediaries referred to in I who carry out the activity of credit intermediation referred to in article L. 313-1 of the French Consumer Code must meet the professional competence requirements set out in article L. 314-24 of the same code, in accordance with the conditions set out in articles D. 314-23, D. 314-24 and D. 314-26 of the same code.