Crédit Mutuel

Overview

Crédit Mutuel

type	Credit union
industry	Financial services
products	Retail banking · corporate banking · investment banking · insurance · private banking · private equity · mortgage loans · credit cards · investment management · wealth management · asset management · mutual funds · exchange-traded funds · index funds
predecessor	February 27, 1882 first bank based on the Raiffeisen model
foundation	September 10, 1947 first cooperative bank of Crédit Mutuel
location city	Paris
location country	France
key people	Nicolas Théry, President of the National Confederation and of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale; Julien Carmona, president of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
revenue	€20.4 billion (2022)‡R1R‡
operating income	€7 billion (2022)‡R1R‡
net income	€4.1 billion (2022)‡R1R‡
assets	€1.169 trillion (Q4 2024)‡R1R‡
equity	€68.6 billion (2022)‡R1R‡
num employees	83,636 (2022)‡R1R‡
homepage	creditmutuel.com

Crédit Mutuel is a French cooperative banking group, one of the country's top five banks with over 30 million customers. It traces its origins back to the German cooperative movement inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in Alsace–Lorraine under German rule, in the 1880s. Crédit Mutuel was a member of the International Raiffeisen Union (IRU).[2]

Crédit Mutuel has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.[3][4]

History

Origins

The first local cooperative bank inspired by the Raiffeisen system on what is now French territory was created in February 1882 in La Wantzenau, a village near

Organization

The Crédit Mutuel group has a decentralized structure, despite being designated as a single significant institution under European Banking Supervision. Its central entity is the Confédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel (CNCM) in Paris. The CNCM was headquartered from 1981 to 2020 at 88–90, rue Cardinet in Paris, and in 2020 moved to a newly erected building at 46, Rue du Bastion near the high-rise Tribunal judiciaire de Paris.

In France, the group's main retail network is formed of around 2,000 individual local Crédit Mutuel banks, which are owned by their customers in line with the Raiffeisen system. These local cooperative banks are grouped into 18 regional federations and one nationwide agricultural federation.

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale

In 1992, the Fédération du Crédit Mutuel de Centre Est Europe (CMCEE) was formed in Strasbourg, where the Crédit Mutuel was born in German-ruled Alsace–Lorraine, through the merger of the regional federations of Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté and Centre-Est, the latter including Bourgogne and Champagne-Ardennes. Since 2011, a number of regional federations have formed a quasi-national grouping led by the CMCEE, initially called the "CM11" and known since 2018 as the Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, which as of early 2022 brings together 14 of the 18 regional federations plus the nationwide agricultural federation. The local banks of the Alliance fédérale collectively own the Caisse fédérale de Crédit Mutuel in Strasbourg, which in turns owns 91.7% of the Banque fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM), with an additional 6.4% of the latter being held by regional federations through their regional caisses. The Caisse fédérale also owns the Caisse agricole du Crédit Mutuel, which serves the nationwide agricultural federation except in Brittany.

The BFCM in turns owns most of the group's assets beyond the network of local cooperative banks, both in France and abroad. As of early 2022, these included Crédit Industriel et Commercial, a significant banking group which is older than Crédit Mutuel itself, purchased in stages between 1998 and 2017; subsidiaries that host consumer credit (Cofidis), real estate, asset management, insurance, private equity, factoring and leasing; Groupe EBRA, a fully owned media group active in Eastern France; and 96% of the Banque européenne du Crédit Mutuel (BECM), a specialized bank that provides property lending in France and Germany. Other affiliates outside of France include:

Banque de Luxembourg in Luxembourg
Targobank in Germany
51% of Beobank in Belgium, with the remaining 49% held by regional federations of Crédit Mutuel in France
a 35% stake in Banque de Tunisie in Tunisia
a 25% stake in Bank of Africa in Morocco[11]

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and other federations

The federations outside of the Alliance fédérale are those of Brittany (headquartered at Le Relecq-Kerhuon near Brest) and Sud-Ouest (in Bordeaux), which together form a grouping called Crédit mutuel Arkéa with its own brand identity; Maine-Anjou-Basse-Normandie (MABN, in Laval); and Océan (in La Roche-sur-Yon). Each of the Arkéa, MABN and Océan groupings have their own serving banking entity, respectively the Caisse interfédérale Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel de Maine-Anjou et Basse-Normandie, and Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Océan. Arkéa also has specialized financial services subsidiaries mirroring those of the BFCM, as well as an online bank, Fortuneo, which it acquired in 2006, and the Belgian Keytrade Bank, acquired in 2016.

Caisse Centrale du Crédit Mutuel

The Caisse Centrale du Crédit Mutuel, run by the CNCM in Paris and not to be confused with the Caisse Fédérale in Strasbourg, is a bank that serves financial functions for the entire group, including the Alliance fédérale and Arkéa. Its capital structure is a reflection of the Crédit Mutuel group's structure. As of end-2021, its shareholders were the Caisse Fédérale de Crédit Mutuel (54.07%); Crédit Mutuel Arkéa (20.15%); the Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe (13.11%); the Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel de Maine-Anjou et Basse-Normandie (7.26%); and the Caisse Fédérale du Crédit Mutuel Océan (5.41%). the regional federation of Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe, based in Lille, joined the Alliance fédérale with effect on 2022/01/01, so that its stake may be expected to be consolidated with that of the Caisse Fédérale.

Crédit Mutuel

History

Origins

After the 2008 financial crisis: expansion with acquisitions

Organization

Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and other federations

Caisse Centrale du Crédit Mutuel

Motto

Controversy

Check processing fees

CIC and the National Bank of Haiti

See also

External links

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