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The ACPR head office has been located since 2018 at 4, place de Budapest in Paris

The French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (French: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution, ACPR), formerly known as Prudential Supervision Authority (French: Autorité de contrôle prudentiel, ACP), is an independent administrative authority under the aegis of the Bank of France, which exercises prudential supervision of regulated French financial firms such as banks and insurance companies.[1] Since 2014, it has been France's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision.[2]

Background

Building at 4 place des Victoires in Paris (right), where the Commission de Contrôle des Banques was located in the 1970s;[3] with the Bank of France in the background

A number of financial supervisory authorities were created in France over the years and with various mandates. These included:[4]

  • the Bank Supervisory Commission (French: Commission de Contrôle des Banques, CCB), established in 1941 and renamed in 1984 the Banking Commission (French: Commission bancaire)
  • the Insurance Supervisory Commission (French: Commission de contrôle des assurances, CCA) and the Mutual Insurance and Health Care Supervisory Commission (French: Commission de contrôle des mutuelles et des institutions de prévoyance, CCMIP), merged in 2003 to form the Insurance, Mutuals and Health Care Supervisory Commission (French: Commission de contrôle des assurances, des mutuelles et des institutions de prévoyance, CCAMIP) which in 2005 was renamed Insurance and Mutuals Supervisory Authority (French: Autorité de contrôle des assurances et des mutuelles, ACAM)
  • the Committee for Credit Institutions and Investment Companies (French: Comité des établissements de crédit et des entreprises d'investissement, CECEI) and Committee for Insurance Companies (French: Comité des entreprises d'assurance, CEA), separate licensing authorities, respectively, for credit institutions and investment services providers and for insurers

History

In January 2010, the ACP was formed by executive order through the merger of the Banking Commission, ACAM, and CECEI.[5] A new executive order in July 2013 granted it resolution authority, in the context of the formation of the European Single Resolution Mechanism, and correspondingly changed its name from ACP to ACPR.

The Secretary-General (French: secrétaire général) is the ACPR's chief executive officer. The successive Secretaries-General of ACP, then ACPR have been:

  • Danièle Nouy (March 2010 - December 2013), previously Secretary-General of the Banking Commission since 2003
  • Edouard Fernandez-Bollo (January 2014 - September 2019)
  • Dominique Laboureix (October 2019 - 2023)
  • Nathalie Aufauvre (2023–present)

Conducted from July 2020 to April 2021, the first assessment of financial risks[6] due to climate change was carried out by the ACPR and included 22 insurance organizations and 9 banking groups.[7]

Operations

A plaque in the ACPR's lobby emphasizes the authority's embeddedness in European Banking union by memorializing the presence of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and ECB Supervisory Board Chair Danièle Nouy at the building's inauguration ceremony, together with the ACPR's own chair and Secretary-General

The ACPR is an independent administrative authority attached to the Banque de France, with the Governor of the Bank of France acting as its chairman.[8] Its stated purposes include supervision and control, preservation of the stability of the financial system and protection of clients, insured participants and beneficiaries who are subject to its control.[9] The ACPR have supervisory powers, the power to impose administrative enforcement measures, and disciplinary powers with respect to entities under its jurisdiction. It may also make public any information that it deems necessary to discharge its duties.[8]

It consists of three different decision-making bodies: the Supervisory College, the Resolution College and the Sanctions Committee, as well as some consultative bodies, such as the Audit Committee and the Scientific Consultative Committee.[8]

The ACPR occasionally launches public consultations on different issues, as was the case in 2013, when it drafted the regulations for crowdfunding following a public consultation launched alongside the Autorité des marchés financiers and the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) have launched a public consultation on crowdfunding". Autorité des marchés financiers. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "National supervisors". ECB Banking Supervision.
  3. ↑ Procès-verbal de la quatre-vingt-quatrième séance du comité des gouverneurs des banques centrales des États membres de la Communauté économique européenne tenue à Washington, le lundi 30 septembre 1974 à 15 heures (PDF)
  4. ↑ Didier Israël (2012), "L'indépendance de l'Autorité de contrôle prudentiel", Revue française d'administration publique, 2012/3 (n° 143): 759–767
  5. ↑ "The ACP an overview" (PDF). banque de france. 17 December 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2011.
  6. ↑ "" Le paysage actuel de l'assurance pourrait connaître un bouleversement complet face au risque climatique "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  7. ↑ lassurenmouv. "Résultats de l'exercice pilote climatique 2020 |" (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  8. 1 2 3 "Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution - ACPR (French financial supervisory body)". The Journal of Regulation. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  9. ↑ Hubert, Olivier; Pince, Arnaud (1 September 2018). "Banking Regulation in France: Overview". Thomson Reuters Practical Law.
  10. ↑ "The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) have launched a public consultation on crowdfunding". AMF. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
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