The French group seems both destined for dominance and predisposed to failure.

After a bloodless revolution at the eurozone’s second biggest banking group, Philippe Brassac says he has engineered a return to Crédit Agricole’s origins, rooted in French regional banking. Now he is aiming to revive the group’s appetite for foreign expansion. Can Brassac prevent a repetition of his predecessors’ international errors and avoid falling victim to another coup?

Euromoney magazine has released the results of the 2017 Fixed Income Research Survey.

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The country’s banking sector is the most undercapitalized in Europe, so French calls for a delay to new capital rules are growing.

Crédit Agricole CIB’s improving advisory prowess alongside its lending strength helped push it ahead of its peers.

€3bln for DCM, €3bln for FICC; UniCredit, Commerzbank and Crédit Agricole to benefit as funding shifts to bonds

French policymakers would need to inject up to €300 billion of capital – the highest level of support in Europe – to prop up the country’s banking system during a severe global financial crisis, according to a new European systemic risk index, Euromoney can reveal.

As concerns grow over French bank sovereign debt holdings, Moody’s cuts Société Générale and Crédit Agricole’s credit ratings – to no surprise from the market.