🇫🇷 France · AML & KYC
Anti-money-laundering and customer-due-diligence obligations, regulated activities, and the official financial regulator.
In France, AML/CFT obligations apply to financial and designated non-financial professions. The ACPR supervises banks and insurers, while Tracfin is the financial intelligence unit that receives suspicious-transaction reports. Obliged entities must identify and verify clients (KYC), assess risk, monitor relationships and report suspicions to Tracfin.
- Identify and verify clients (KYC) and assess money-laundering risk.
- The ACPR supervises banks and insurers; other professions have their own supervisors.
- Report suspicious transactions to Tracfin, the financial intelligence unit.
Official authorities
- ACPR (Banque de France)
AML supervisor for banks and insurers.
- Tracfin
France's financial intelligence unit.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Government of France — Office of the French Prime Minister — government policies, ministers, and key legislation
- France Public Services (Service-Public) — France's unified administrative services — residence permits, taxes, social security, civil records
- French General Tax Directorate (DGFiP) — French income tax, VAT, wealth tax filing; tax residency determination; French tax number (NIF) application