NATIXIS // 2021 Universal Registration Document

8 LEGAL AND GENERAL INFORMATION

Statutory Auditors’ special report on related-party agreements

It is specified that the proposed transfers of employees and operating resources and the conclusion of the memorandum of understandingare in the interest of Natixis insofar as these transfers are necessary for the disposal transactions by Natixis of the Insurance and Payments business lines for the benefit of BPCE, and consequentlyto the refocusingof Natixis on global business lines by dedicating the appropriate resources to them. This memorandumof understandingwill be submittedto the General Shareholders' Meeting of March 22, 2022, for approval. Corporate officers concerned on the day of the transaction: Laurent Mignon (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Natixis and Chairman of the Management Board of BPCE), Catherine Halberstadt (permanent representative of BPCE on the Board of Natixis and member of the BPCE Senior Management Committee), Sylvie Garcelon, Dominique Garnier, Philippe Hourdain, Catherine Leblanc, Didier Dousset, Dominique Duband, Laurent Roubin and Christophe Pinault.

Memorandum of understanding relating to the transfer of operating resources and employees between BPCE, BPCE Achats, BPCE Services, Albiant-IT, Natixis, Natixis Immo Exploitation and Natixis Payment Solutions On February 10, 2022, the Board of Directors authorized the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding relating to the transfer of operating resourcesand employeesbetweenBPCE, BPCE Achats, BPCE Services, Albiant-IT, Natixis, Natixis Immo Exploitation and Natixis Payment Solutions and approved all the terms and conditions, including financial terms, of said agreement. As part of the simplification of the Group’s organization and the attachment of the Insurance and Payments business lines to BPCE, this memorandumof understanding aims to organize the transfers of certain employees as well as the transfer and provision of assets and liabilities, from Natixis and its subsidiaries to BPCE and its subsidiaries, and from BPCE to BPCE Services. 5.

Neuilly-sur-Seine and Paris-La Défense, March 11, 2022

The Statutory Auditors

PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit Emmanuel Benoist

Deloitte & Associés Charlotte Vandeputte

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