30 July 2023 | | Article 721-3 Book VII - Token Issuers and Digital Assets Services Providers > Title II - Digital Assets Services Providers > Chapter I - Registration requirements, license requirements and common provisions applicable to licensed digital assets services providers > Section 2 - License requirements … Article 721-3 … For the services referred to in 1° to 5° of Article L. 54-10-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code, the applicant shall send the AMF a programme … be so, and contracts signed or planned with said service providers; The measures taken to ensure the resilience and … |
27 July 2023 | AMF news release | Close to 40% of new equity investors are under 35 The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) publishes converging data on the emergence of a new generation of stock market retail investors. The transaction reports received by the AMF and the Kantar Institute's annual survey of direct share ownership both point to a record proportion of younger people among individual shareholders. … daily transaction reports sent to the AMF by investment services providers, which have been mandatory since the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) came into force in … |
26 July 2023 | News | Digital assets: the AMF amends its policy on DASPs to clarify the transition to "enhanced" DASP registration The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is amending its position on the regime governing digital asset service providers (DASPs) to take account of changes resulting from the DDADUE Law, which introduces enhanced DASP registration applicable from 1 January 2024. … for new players wishing to provide the four digital asset services subject to mandatory registration (custody, … it is otherwise authorised to provide in connection with financial instruments. A portfolio asset management company … changes will need to be taken into account by service providers who have to submit a registration file or complete … |
01 January 2024 | Policy | Recommendation DOC-2020-07 … Questions & answers on the digital asset service providers regime … Fintech Crypto-assets Anti-money … L. 561- 1 et seq. and R. 561-1 et seq. of the Monetary and Financial Code. Articles 721-3 to 721-6 and 722-1, 722-5, … have to register with the AMF when providing digital asset services in France? … |
17 July 2023 | Public statements | Speech by Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, AMF Chair – Publication of 2022 annual report AMF and the strategic guidelines for the period 2023-2027 – Monday 26 June 2023 … in Ukraine and the resurgence of inflation, in a changing financial environment faced with new risks. Financial markets … authorities in the context of the freedom to provide services. On the international level, the AMF will maintain … for mandatory authorisation of crypto-asset service providers. We want to help these market players reach … |
07 July 2023 | Article | Contact us … … Mediation request … You have a dispute regarding a financial product? You can file a mediation request before … victim of a scam, a mis-selling of financial products or services, or to report a malfunction of the market … AMF … a question regarding a contribution : Investment Services Providers, Asset Management Companies, market … |
07 July 2023 | Warning | The AMF and the ACPR warn the public against the activities of several entities offering in France investments in Forex and in crypto-assets derivatives without being authorized to do so With the objective of protecting investors, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) regularly update their black lists of websites identified as offering investments in the unregulated foreign exchange (Forex) market and in derivative products whose underlying assets include crypto… … regularly. To ensure that the intermediary offering you financial products or services is authorized to operate in France, you may consult the register of authorized investment service providers (https://www.regafi.fr) or the list of authorized … |
23 June 2023 | Warning | The AMF warns the public about the fraudulent investment offers in Forex and crypto-assets by Immediate Connect After receiving dozens of enquiries and complaints from retail investors, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is calling on the public to be extremely vigilant about the automated trading service offered by Immediate Connect, which is being promoted on the Internet through advertisements using the names of prominent personalities and well… … interested investors were quickly contacted by a supposed financial adviser who induced them to register on an … investors that only companies authorised as investment services providers in the European Union are permitted to offer … |
22 June 2023 | Enforcement Committee news releases | By two decisions, the AMF Enforcement Committee fines two investment services providers for breaches of their professional obligations By two decisions of 19 June 2023, the Committee handed down a warning and a fine of one million euros against Crédit Industriel et Commercial, and a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand euros against Banque CIC Sud-Ouest. … the AMF Enforcement Committee fines two investment services providers for breaches of their professional obligations … … that these companies had breached the obligation to market financial instruments suited to their clients' profiles, and … |
16 June 2023 | News | European Crowdfunding Services Providers: the AMF publishes a position on marketing communications The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published a Position 2023-05 setting out the requirements applicable to marketing communications of European Crowdfunding Services Providers (ECSPs) providing services in France. This position supplements the requirements applicable to ECSPs’ marketing communications arising from Regulation (EU)… … European Crowdfunding Services Providers: the AMF publishes a position on marketing … the AMF publishes a position on marketing communications … Financial services providers … Asset management … Marketing … |