Groupe Banque Populaire

In 2006, Groupe Banque Populaire has created a new company with another French cooperative banking group, Groupe Caisse d'Epargne in order to create Natixis. The new Investment Bank is the result of the spin-off of the two Investment Banks of the two groups : Banque Populaire's Natexis and Caisse d'Epargne's IXIS Corporate and Investment Bank. Natixis is equally controlled by the two groups.

Banque Populaire claims to have :

• 3,100,000 sociétaires (shareholders)
• 7,000,000 clients
• 2856 branches in France
• a presence in 70 countries

External links

• Groupe Banque Populaire organization
• Banque Populaire website (in french)