The ACPR and AMF, French financial regulators, focused on anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism, internal control procedures, conflicts of interest and market abuse infringements in 2016. While the focus may have shifted, financial sanctions made up 90% of the penalties in 2016. In fact, financial regulators’ powers of sanction have drastically broadened over the last decade and have made sanctions a more effective deterrent. To read more about the 2016 French financial regulation click here.
