Question 15480 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Mikaele Seo draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories to the banking situation on the islands of Wallis and Futuna. The banking situation is particularly degraded and does not offer the minimum services that residents have the right to expect. For individuals, it is very difficult to have a bank account. There are no minimum services, not enough agency openings, no advice, no automatic teller machine (ATM). In Futuna, this banking weakness is particularly serious, with the island truly left in a banking situation. For businesses the situation is also complicated. Companies do not have the minimum necessary for the proper functioning of economic life. The protest movements attest to this situation and the needs expressed by the populations: demonstrations of individuals, blockages of entrepreneurs. The IOEM and the Banque de France are fully informed of this, and they dealt with this problematic situation during the last consultations in Paris. The situation is known and analyzed. The desire of the BWF, at least to be supported by the Government, if not to withdraw from the territory is clear. The wish of the Bank of New Caledonia and BNP to disengage from BWF is not ignored. The MP reminds the Government of the imperative for the territory to have a banking system equivalent to that proposed throughout the metropolitan territory. Individuals and businesses alike need to have a supply necessary for local economic life but also essential for trade with the rest of the country. Even more than any other, this French territory is open to the world and its exchanges are carried out with all of its Pacific neighbors, with Australia, but also mainly with Asian countries. The MP asks the Minister what means he intends to implement to respond to the territory's demand. Like all French people, Wallisians and Futunians are entitled to a modern and adapted banking service. Like any business, those in Wallis and Futuna must have a modern system, adapted and able to offer the support needed. The MP reminds the Government that it cannot wish for the territory of Wallis and Futuna to become part of the common economic and financial law, impose its rules, standards and constraints on it and prohibit its tools. The MP wishes to know the proposals that the Government plans to implement in the territory. In particular, he asks him if he plans to end the withdrawal of the Treasury public as a banking service provider, if it imagines supporting the BWF in its current mission, or even looking for new banking partners capable of meeting the demands of the populations.

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