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• You are not already holder of an account within LCL.

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• A valid proof of identity: National identity card (front/back) or passport (pages with photo and signature) or residence permit (front/back)
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• Your IBAN/RIB (French banking establishment) corresponding to the account associated with the bank card that you will use to activate your account (payment of € 50)
• Your specimen of your handwritten signature: On a blank page, affix your handwritten signature and transmit the scanned or photographed copy

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Can we avoid account holding costs?

By Laure-Emmanuelle Husson on 28.12.2015 at 5:43 p.m., updated on 04.03.2016 at 5:32 p.m. reading 4 min.

From April 1, LCL will apply account holding to its customers, such as 85% of banks. But it is possible to avoid them.

Large banks are preparing to invoice the holding of current accounts

LCL joins the movement started by many banking groups in 2015. As of April 1, 2016, the Lyonnaise bank will charge its customer account holding costs, that is to say the simple holding of a current account. The latter will now have to pay 24 euros per year to benefit from this service offered so far free. “There will be only 16 banks out of 116 which will continue to apply free account holding costs”, is alarmed by Serge Maître, president of AFUB, the French association of banks users.

Indeed, concerned with catching up the shortfall linked to the cap or the prohibition of various costs (intervention commissions, sending paper statements, emission of checks. ) and the increase, according to them, of the costs of securing transactions, the banks have generalized the accounts of account. According to the association of CLCV consumer, 85% of them today apply costs against less than one in 2010 in 2010.

Same tempo, same amount

Thus, since January 1, 2016, Société Générale and BNP Paribas have been paying 24 euros and 30 euros annually respectively to their customers. The establishment of the rue d’Antin justifies the end of gratuitousness due to a “constant increase” of account holding costs due to the intensification of the fight against fraud and one more legislative framework more demanding.

In October 2015, Crédit Mutuel also decided to remove freely in force in seven federations. Account holding costs are now 24 euros annually there. An average price that also seems to be generalizing. Thus, against the tide, the Chaix bank has changed its account of account holding, having passed, since January 15, 2016, from 146 euros per year to . 26.40 euros.

Which suggests a possible agreement. AFUB thus seized the competition authority and the ACPR, the gendarme in the banking sector to verify it. Bercy, who launched an online comparator in early February listing 150 banks, also asked for “a clarification” on the content of account holding costs to the financial sector Advisory Committee (CCSF).

More than a few exceptions

In the meantime, only a few regional funds from Crédit Agricole and the BPCE group (Banque Populaire-Caisse d’Epargne) preserve the total free of this service. Online banks also continue to offer this service and, in front of the rising discontent, multiply advertisements on the subject. Note that young people under 26 years old, people in over -indebtedness procedure or have low resources as well as customers who have subscribed to a “package” are exempt from these costs.

Normally, customers must be informed by mail at least two months in advance of a change in prices. AFUB thus advises customers concerned by an upcoming change in accounting costs to send a registered letter to the agency director invoking article L.312-1-1 of the monetary and financial code to justify the refusal to pay these new costs. Because the acceptance of these new prices is tacit for banks.

Online banks in ambush

At the end of December, Serge Maître said that 20.000 customers complained to their banks. Several cases are then emerging: either the banker refuses to cancel the new prices, or he agrees to decrease them, or he offers his customers to subscribe to a “package” integrating the account holding costs and others services with a higher rate.

This generalization of account holding costs is thus a boon for online banks. “The media have talked a lot about account holding costs in recent months and, in this sense, the dynamics have been favorable to us, explains Marie Cheval, director of Boursorama (Société Générale) group. Our customers come to us for several reasons but bank charges represent an important trigger “. Boursorama thus noted a significant increase in new customers at the end of January when the annual bank charges were sent.

Example of letter to send to his bank to demand the continuity of free:
Good morning,
Learning to establish by your establishment of account ownership fees from January 1, 2016, I inform you of my refusal of this new pricing.
This request is made in application of the prescriptions of the Monetary and Financial Code in its article L312-1-1 II as well as on the recommendation of the AFUB.
With my greetings,
Signature.