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The banking industry in France has, as of 11 October 2008, an average leverage ratio (assets/net worth) of 28 to 1, and its short-term liabilities are equal to 60% of the French GDP or 128% of its national debt. France operates a deposits guarantee fund, known as the Fonds de Garantie des Depôts.
The Rothschild banking family of France ( French: Famille banquière Rothschild) is the French branch of the Rothschild family. It was founded in 1812 by James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868) in Paris, which was then part of the First French Empire. He was sent there from his home in Frankfurt by his father, Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744 ...
Groupe BPCE (for B anque P opulaire C aisse d' E pargne) is a major French banking group formed by the 2009 merger of two major retail banking groups, Groupe Caisse d'Épargne and Groupe Banque Populaire. As of 2021, it was France's fourth largest bank, the seventh largest in Europe, and the nineteenth in the world by total assets. [3]
The Bank of France (French: Banque de France) is the French member of the Eurosystem. The bank doesn't translate its name to English and uses its French name Banque de France in all English communications. The bank was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 as a private-sector corporation with unique public status.
The Rothschild family (/ ˈ r ɒ θ (s) tʃ aɪ l d / ROTH(S)-chylde German: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s.
BRED Banque populaire. BRED (formerly acronym for Banque régionale d'escompte et de dépôts / Regional Discount and Deposit Bank) is one of the cooperative banks part of Groupe Banque Populaire in France. It was founded in 1919 by Louis-Alexandre Dagot in Vincennes.
To increase maritime activity, Francis I founded the port city of Le Havre in 1517. Other significant ports included Toulon, Saint Malo and La Rochelle. Lyon was the center of France's banking and international trade markets. Market fairs occurred four times a year and facilitated the exportation of French goods, such as cloth and fabrics, and ...
The economy of Paris is based largely on services and commerce: of the 390,480 of its enterprises, 80.6 percent are engaged in commerce, transportation, and diverse services, 6.5 percent in construction, and just 3.8 percent in industry. [1] Paris, including both the City of Paris and the Île-de-France region (Paris Region), is the most ...