Crédit Agricole

Crédit Agricole S.A.

Type	Société Anonyme
Traded as	Euronext: ACA
Industry	Financial services
Founded	May 23, 2000
Headquarters	Paris, France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jean-Paul Chifflet (CEO), Jean-Marie Sander (Chairman)
Products	Banking, asset management, insurance
Revenue	€34.21 billion (2010)
Operating income	€8.166 billion (2010)
Profit	€3.611 billion (2010)
Total assets	€1.731 trillion (end 2010)
Total equity	€77.43 billion (end 2010)
Employees	161,280 (end 2010)
Website	www.credit-agricole.com

Crédit Agricole S.A. (CASA) is the largest retail banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the eighth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. It is also part of the CAC 40 stock market index.

It was the title sponsor of the Crédit Agricole professional road cycling team from 1997 to 2008.

Structure of the group

Emporiki Bank offices in Makariou Avenue, Nicosia, Cyprus. Emporiki bank was a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole. In October 2012, Emporiki Bank was sold by Credit Agricole to Alpha Bank for €1.

Crédit Agricole S.A. is majority owned by 39 French co-operative retail banks, Caisses Régionales de Crédit Agricole Mutuel. Its subsidiaries include:

• Credit Agricole CIB, the investment banking division of Crédit Agricole.
• Newedge, global futures and options brokerage serving institutional investors (50-50 joint venture with Société Générale).
• CACEIS Investor Services, Asset servicing entity, joint venture with Natixis
• CLSA, the Asian securities brokerage division.
• Predica and Pacifica, the insurance divisions
• Amundi, its asset management subsidiary, jointly with Société Générale.
• Uni-Éditions, a French magazine publisher
• ACBA Crédit Agricole, an Armenian bank
• Cariparma FriulAdria, an Italian bank
• Crédit Agricole Egypt, an Egyptian bank
• Crédit Agricole Srbija, a Serbian bank
• Crédit du Maroc, a Moroccan bank
• LCL (Previously Crédit Lyonnais), a French bank
• Credit Agricole Bank Polska S. A. (Previously LUKAS Bank S. A.), a Polish bank
• Credit Agricole Bank (Previously Index Bank), a Ukrainian bank
• CA Grands Crus, a French vineyard owner
• Crelan, a Belgian bank and insurer (50-50 joint venture).
• Cheuvreux[1]

Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux recently merged with Kepler Capital Markets [2][3]

Kepler Capital Markets is a European broker, which was acquired by its senior managers after its parent Icelandic company Landsbanki's bankruptcy. Kepler Capital Markets is now owned at 42% by CDC, Credit Mutuel and Blackfin, a Paris based private equity firm. [4][5][6]

Management:

• Thierry Puerto [7][8] – CEO
• Laurent Quirin – CEO [9][10]
• Laurence Justice - CRO
• Francis Canard [11] - CFO
• Mathieu Denis - Head of compliance
• Roger Darocha - Compliance
• Paul Weil - HR and CFO
• Jakub Kurkowski - COO
• Patrick Grandfils - Head of Group Finance
• Philippe Musette-Sykes - Head of Debt [12] [13][14]
• Joseph Cusanno - Head of bonds IDB [15][16]
• Michael Creedon - Head of Emerging Markets [17]
• François Mallet - Head of Equity Paris [18]
• Marlon Kelly - Co-Head of Equity Brokerage
• Peter Romanzina - Head of Equity Research
• Jose Antonio Hernandez [19] - Co-Head of Equity Brokerage
• Carl Kenigsberg - Head of Equity Derivatives
• Nicolas Miara-Godet [20] - Head of Investment Solutions [21][22][23][24][25]
• Pascal Marionneau [26] - Global head of Credit ASG [27][28]
• René Seitz - Head of Frankfurt Branch
• Damien Carenini - Head of Inflation [29]
• Dominik Belloin - Head of Corporate Finance [30]
• Eric Deluga - Head of Corporate bonds IDB [31]
• Robert Buller - Head of CRM
• Jacques Attali - Supervisory board [32]
• Dr. Heinrich Binder - Advisor
• Frederik Bernhard Baron van Dedem- Advisor
• Hubertus Krossa - Advisor
• Rudolf Scharping- Advisor
• Dr. Martin Steinbach - Advisor
• Tom Schwab - Advisor
• Philippe Baboulin - Head of Business Development [33]

Kepler Holding SA, à Nyon, CH-550-1056494-2, l'acquisition, la détention, la gestion, l'aliénation et le financement de participations (FOSC du 15.02.2010, p. 21/5495546). Statuts modifiés le 8 septembre 2010. La reprise de biens envisagée portant sur 3'813'756 actions nominatives de EUR 15.25 de Landsbanki Kepler, à Paris, a été réalisée par contrats du 30 janvier 2009 et 13 août 2010 pour CHF 1. [34]

Key services

Through its subsidiaries, Crédit Agricole SA is involved in the following services:

• French Retail Banking
• International Retail Banking
• Specialised Financial Services
• Asset Management, Insurance and Private Banking
• Corporate and Investment Banking

Market presence

The Caisses Régionales (e.g. Crédit Agricole Normandie in the Lower Normandy region) mainly focus on rural areas and less on urban ones. However, the Crédit Lyonnais subsidiary has a significant presence in the big cities; the combination gives the Crédit Agricole group a leading market share in France.

Through all of its subsidiaries, Crédit Agricole SA has in excess of 21 million clients and a presence in over 60 countries.

The current objective of the group is to develop a strong presence in various other European banking markets by acquiring stakes in local banks in other countries.^{citation needed}

In 2008, the Group was listed as the #2 largest cooperative in the world, by the International Cooperative Alliance.

Credit Agricole left the Greek market in October 2012 after it agreed to sell Emporiki Bank to Alpha Bank for a token price of €1, ending a six year investment in the debt-ridden country.

Head office

Head office in Paris, near Montparnasse station.

The head office is located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, 91-93 boulevard Pasteur. The building was inaugurated in 1966. Edgar Faure, the Minister of Agriculture, was supposed to attend the inauguration but was in a negotiation in Brussels. Faure's predecessor, Edgar Pisani, cut the ribbon for the building. After renovations to the Crédit Agricole head office occurred in 1995 and 1997, the employees who were formerly based in the Tour Montparnasse moved into the CA head office.

Controversy

In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including Crédit Agricole, the sum of 384,900,000 Euros for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer.

See also

• European Financial Services Roundtable

External links

• Official website