NATIXIS_REGISTRATION_DOCUMENT_2017

7 LEGAL INFORMATION

Statutory Auditors’ special report on related-party agreements and commitments

All of these letters of joint and several guarantee and commitmenthad expired or been terminatedat the date of this report, but continueto apply retrospectivelyto all the guaranteed transactions entered into prior to the date on which the underlying joint and several guarantees were terminated or expired,until these transactionshave been fully unwound. In the case of joint and severalguaranteesenteredinto with CDC Finance-CDCIXIS, the IXIS CIB creditorsfor transactionssecured under these guaranteesthat were entered into before the expiry of the respectiveguaranteesmay, in accordancewith the letter

from the Chief ExecutiveOfficerof CDC datedOctober 12,2004, enforce their rights directly against CDC until the maturity of the guaranteed transactions,as if this commitmenthad been taken out directlyby CDC on behalf of the IXIS CIB creditors. The conditionsgoverningthe paymentand calculationof the fees payableby IXIS CIB in respect of the guaranteeswere defined in an agreementwith CDC Finance-CDCIXIS and CNCE. The expenses recognized by Natixis in respect of these agreements came to €697,455 for the fiscal year ended December31, 2017.

French original signed in Neuilly-sur-Seine and Paris La Défense on March 23, 2018 The Statutory Auditors

Deloitte & Associés Charlotte Vandeputte Jean-Marc Mickeler

PricewaterhouseCoopersAudit

Mazars

AgnèsHussherr PatriceMorot

Charlesde Boisriou EmmanuelDooseman

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