📋 France AMF Insider Trades — Déclarations Dirigeants Tracker

Every CEO, CFO, and board-member trade in their own company's shares — direct from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers. Pull machine-readable executive insider transactions from the AMF BDIF public register of Déclarations dirigeants. Under EU Market Abuse Regulation Article 19 and French Code monétaire et financier L621-18-2, every senior officer of a listed French issuer must report personal trades within 3 business days. The AMF publishes them in BDIF; we make them queryable, structured, and joinable to your portfolio. insider-transaction data for the French market — Carmignac, Comgest, Mirabaud, and Paris activist desks pay $24,000+ for a Bloomberg Terminal to read the same data.

This actor focuses on France-only by design. EU-wide insider tracking is fragmented across 27 National Competent Authorities (BaFin in Germany, CNMV in Spain, Consob in Italy, etc.) — each with its own portal, schema, and access controls. AMF is the largest single-jurisdiction source by volume after the UK FCA, with consistent coverage of CAC40 + SBF120 + Euronext Growth. Single-source focus = clean, deduplicated, joinable data.

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Why this actor beats the alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Bloomberg European Insider	Refinitiv Corporate Insider	Quiver Quantitative	Insider Monkey
France coverage	ALL CAC40 + SBF120 + Euronext Growth (~700 issuers)	Bloomberg-licensed coverage	Refinitiv-licensed coverage	❌ US only	❌ US only
EU jurisdiction	France (focused, deep)	EU-wide via consolidated feed	EU-wide via Eikon	❌	❌
Refresh latency	Real-time (within hours of AMF publication)	T+1	T+1	N/A	N/A
Pricing	Pay-per-declaration ($0.10 / record)	Bloomberg Terminal ($24K/yr)	Refinitiv Workspace ($22K/yr)	$50/mo subscription	Free/freemium
Filter by issuer ISIN	✅ Multi-ISIN supported	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Filter by date range	✅ daysBack window	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Transaction nature (buy / sell / option / etc.)	✅ Normalized	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Declarant role (CEO / CFO / Director / etc.)	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Total amount + unit price	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A
Output format	JSON / CSV / Excel	Excel / Bloomberg API	Excel / Workspace API	API	Web only
API / scriptable	✅ REST + SDK	Limited (BLP)	Limited (Workspace)	✅	❌
Setup time	< 1 minute	4-8 weeks	4-8 weeks	1 day	N/A
Source	AMF BDIF (primary)	AMF + Bloomberg overlay	AMF + Refinitiv overlay	N/A	N/A

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What you get

Every dataset item is a single executive declaration with these fields:

• Filing identifiers: declaration_id, publication_date, transaction_date
• Issuer: issuer_name, issuer_isin, issuer_mic (Euronext / Euronext Growth / etc.)
• Declarant (person reporting): declarant_name, declarant_role (Président du Directoire / Directeur Général / Administrateur / etc.)
• Instrument: instrument_class (Actions / Stock options / BSA / Performance shares / etc.)
• Transaction: transaction_nature (Acquisition / Cession / Souscription / Exercice / Attribution gratuite / etc.), transaction_quantity, transaction_unit_price, transaction_total_amount, transaction_currency (default EUR), transaction_venue (XPAR / XAMS / OTC / etc.)
• Audit trail: data_source, _source_url (direct BDIF detail-page link)

Every field is normalized — no parsing free-text "Acquisition d'actions" vs "Achat d'actions" vs "ACQUI" across thousands of declarations.

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Use cases

• French / European event-driven hedge funds (Carmignac, Comgest, Mirabaud) — track CEO/CFO buying clusters as a leading indicator on the next earnings beat
• Paris-based sell-side research desks — Kepler Cheuvreux, Oddo BHF, Société Générale equity research — augment fundamental coverage with insider-trade overlays
• EU-focused activist trackers — Bluebell Capital, Petrus Advisers — see when board members start buying on weakness, infer activist accumulation pre-13D
• Family offices with French equity exposure — get the same insider-transaction data that the big institutions read, without paying for a Bloomberg seat
• Corporate IR teams — monitor your own board's filings for compliance audit, get notified if a Section 19 deadline is approaching
• Compliance / surveillance teams at French brokers — automated cross-check of employer-traded names against the AMF dirigeants register
• Academic finance researchers — replicate published studies on insider-trade abnormal returns (Cohen / Malloy / Pomorski, Lakonishok / Lee) with French panel data

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Quick start

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("nexgendata/france-amf-insider-trades").call(
    run_input={
        "mode": "recent",
        "daysBack": 14,
        "maxDeclarations": 100,
        "proxyConfiguration": {
            "useApifyProxy": True,
            "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
            "apifyProxyCountry": "FR",
        },
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(
        item["publication_date"], "|",
        item["issuer_name"], "|",
        item["declarant_name"], "(", item["declarant_role"], ")|",
        item["transaction_nature"],
        item["transaction_quantity"], "@",
        item["transaction_unit_price"], item["transaction_currency"],
    )

Modes

• recent — scan all dirigeants declarations filed in the last daysBack days (default 14). Best for weekly watchlist pulls.
• by_isin — filter to one or more issuer ISINs. Required when tracking specific companies. Examples: FR0000131104 (BNP Paribas), FR0000120271 (TotalEnergies), FR0000133308 (Orange).

Important: Geo-restricted source

The AMF BDIF API blocks requests from non-French IP ranges with HTTP 500. You MUST use Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy with apifyProxyCountry: FR for the actor to retrieve any data. The default proxy configuration is already set correctly — leave it as-is unless you have a specific reason to override.

If the AMF blocks even FR residential traffic (rare but possible during portal updates), the actor exits gracefully with a source_blocked status item — your run won't crash and won't burn billing events on holding records that never materialized.

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Pricing — premium institutional tier

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event billing:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Dirigeants declaration	$0.10 per record returned

Typical query costs:

• Weekly watchlist pull (50-150 declarations) — $5–$15
• Single-issuer 12-month audit (10-100 declarations) — $1–$10
• Quarterly CAC40 sweep (~500 declarations) — $50
• Smoke-test query (maxDeclarations: 20) — $2.00

We recommend setting a daily account cap of $100 / 1,000 declarations to bound spend on accidental large pulls.

Compared with a Bloomberg Terminal seat ($24,000/yr) or a Refinitiv Workspace subscription, a $15/week watchlist pull is ~99% cheaper for the same France insider-transaction data.

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Related actors from NexGenData

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SEC Form 4 Insider Tracker	US equivalent — Section 16 officer / director / 10%-owner buys & sells
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SEC Form N-PORT Mutual Fund Holdings	Mutual fund portfolio holdings (US)
SEC Schedule 13D/G Activist Tracker	5%+ activist filings (US)
Australia ASIC Form 605 Substantial Holdings	ASX 5% substantial-holder disclosures
Insider Cluster Detector	Multi-insider buying clusters across markets
Corporate Actions Tracker	Dividends, splits, M&A, spinoffs
Analyst Targets Scraper	Wall Street price targets + rating changes

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FAQ

Q: Is this real AMF data, or a third-party aggregator? A: 100% primary-source AMF BDIF. We hit the official AMF JSON search endpoint at https://bdif.amf-france.org/api/v1/informations. There is no third-party rewrite layer. Your _source_url field points at the exact BDIF detail page.

Q: How current is the data? A: AMF publishes Déclarations dirigeants within 3 business days of the trade per MAR Art. 19 deadline. Our recent mode surfaces them within hours of AMF publication.

Q: Why is the proxy required? A: The AMF BDIF API restricts access to French (and some EU) IP ranges — direct requests from US / Asia / non-EU data center IPs return HTTP 500 "URL has been blocked". Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy with apifyProxyCountry: FR solves this. The default proxy configuration is set up correctly.

Q: What if AMF blocks even FR residential traffic? A: The actor exits gracefully with a source_blocked status item — your run won't crash and won't burn billing events on records that never returned. Contact support@thenextgennexus.com if you see persistent geo-blocks and we'll investigate alternative routing.

Q: Why France-only and not EU-wide? A: EU-wide insider tracking is fragmented across 27 National Competent Authorities (BaFin, CNMV, Consob, AFM, etc.) — each with its own portal, JSON schema, rate limits, and access controls. Building a single "EU insider" actor would require maintaining 27 separate scrapers. AMF is the largest single-jurisdiction source by volume after the FCA, with the cleanest API. Single-source focus = clean, deduplicated, joinable data. If you need other jurisdictions, contact us — we have UK FCA, German BaFin, and Italian Consob actors in development.

Q: How do you handle the various transaction nature codes? A: Acquisition (achat sur le marché), Cession (vente), Souscription (subscription on rights issue), Exercice (option exercise), Attribution gratuite (free share grant), Donation, and various derivative-based codes are exposed as-is in transaction_nature. We don't collapse them into a generic buy/sell flag because the distinction matters for indicator analysis (an option exercise is not the same indicator as an open-market buy).

Q: What about declarations with no published unit price or total amount? A: Some declarations (especially attribution gratuite / free-grant) have null prices and totals — the actor preserves the null so you can filter them out. Open-market buys and sells always carry a price.

Q: Can I get this data exported to Snowflake / BigQuery / S3? A: Yes. Apify's scheduled-run + dataset export to S3 / GCS / Snowflake is built in. Set up a daily scheduled task (the AMF publishes throughout the day) and the data lands in your warehouse with no glue code.

Q: Are records deduplicated within a run? A: Yes — per declaration_id. Re-running the same query will not produce duplicate dataset rows for the same declaration.

Q: Why is the per-record price $0.10? A: France insider-trade data is a buyer pool that pays $20K-$25K/year for a Bloomberg Terminal seat to access. The $0.10 / record price keeps the actor affordable for one-off compliance audits ($10 covers 100 declarations) while preserving margin on weekly-watchlist subscriptions that institutions pay premium prices for. Compared to a Bloomberg Terminal, you'll break even on the first focused query.

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About NexGenData

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The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is the French independent public authority that regulates financial markets. Declarations dirigeants are mandated by EU Regulation 596/2014 (MAR) Article 19 and French Code monétaire et financier L621-18-2. This actor reproduces the public record. No subscription is required to view AMF filings at bdif.amf-france.org; this product exists to make the data machine-readable, queryable, and reliably structured at institutional scale.

Factual public data — not financial or investment advice.