Banks in France

Banque de France – The central bank of France, created in January 1800 by Napoleon Bonaparte. At the time, both Sweden and England already had an issuing bank.

AXA Banque – A retail banking subsidiary of AXA Group.

Banque Federative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) – The Holding company of the CM11-CIC Group. BFCM carries the Group subsidiaries and coordinates their activities. The business of these subsidiaries covers the fields of finance, insurance, ATMs and means of payment, and IT.

Banque Populaire – A French group of cooperative banks comprising 13 Banque Populaire banks. In 2009, the Group merged with Groupe Caisse d'Epargne to form BPCE.

Banque Robeco was a private banking arm of Group Robeco. In 2010, it was acquired by Oddo et Cie.

Banque Transatlantique – One of the oldest private banks in France. It operates as a subsidiary of CIC group. The Bank offers private and corporate banking, assets and wealth management, and other services.

BNP Paribas – One of the largest banking groups in France and in the euro area. The ECB's list of supervised entities, with a cut-off date of 1 July 2026, places BNP Paribas S.A. in its highest total assets band, above EUR 1,000 billion. Its subsidiaries include BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Italy and BNP Paribas Personal Finance.

Boursorama – An online retail bank and a subsidiary of Societe Generale, offering current accounts, savings, brokerage and lending in France. It trades under the BoursoBank brand.

BPCE – One of the largest banking groups in France. It was created from the merger of Banques Populaires and Caisses d’Epargne, two complementary cooperative banking networks.

BRED Banque Populaire – The largest commercial bank in the BPCE Group.

Caisse des Depots et Consignations – A French financial organization under the control of the Parliament.

Caisse d'Epargne – A cooperative banking network in France with more than 20 million customers. It operates as a subsidiary of BPCE Group.

Citibank Europe (French Branch)

Crédit Agricole Group – The largest retail bank in France and one of the largest banking groups in Europe in terms of total assets. It serves more than 50 million customers worldwide and has a presence in 52 countries.

Crédit Agricole CIB (formerly Calyon) – The corporate & investment banking division of Credit Agricole Group. For 2015, Crédit Agricole CIB reported revenue of EUR 4.1 billion.

Crédit Commercial de France (CCF) was a commercial bank in France. In 2000, it became a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC and was renamed HSBC France in 2005. The CCF brand was sold to My Money Group together with the French retail banking network of HSBC, in a sale completed on 1 January 2024, and is now carried by a separate credit institution.

Crédit Coopératif – A cooperative banking group set up in 1893 for the purpose of providing financing to social economy enterprises.

Credit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) – A financial services company founded in 1859. It serves nearly 4.8 million customers through a network over 2,000 branches in France and representative offices in 35 countries.

Crédit du Nord was a French banking group that provided a wide range of financial services through 8 regional banks as a subsidiary of Societe Generale Group. Its network was merged into the French retail bank of Societe Generale and it no longer exists as a separate credit institution, its legal entity identifier recording Societe Generale S.A. as successor entity. The combined network trades as SG, which retains SG Crédit du Nord as the name of one of its regional units.

Crédit Mutuel Group – A leading player in the banking sector in France with a market share of 17.3% of credits and 15% of deposits. The Group serves over 30 million customers.

Dexia Credit Local SA – The main operational entity and issuer of the Dexia Group, which entered orderly resolution after the financial crisis. The entity still exists, renamed Dexia, but it no longer appears on the ECB's list of supervised credit institutions, whose cut-off date is 1 July 2026.

Groupama – An international insurance group based in Paris, France. With over 33,000 employees, it serves over 13 million customers. Groupama is number one mutual insurance company in France.

HSBC Continental Europe (formerly HSBC France) – A subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc providing corporate and institutional banking, global banking and markets, private banking and asset management. It sold its French retail banking network of about 244 branches, together with the Crédit Commercial de France brand, to CCF, a subsidiary of My Money Group; the sale completed on 1 January 2024 and the network now trades as CCF, a separate credit institution.

La Banque Postale – A postal French bank established on 1 January, 2006. It operates as a subsidiary of La Poste. As of June 2017, La Banque Postale had total assets of EUR 233 billion.

LCL S.A. (Le Crédit Lyonnais) – A French retail bank with a strong presence in urban areas. It operates as a subsidiary of Credit Agricole.

Natixis – The corporate and investment banking and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE. The ECB's list of supervised entities, with a cut-off date of 1 July 2026, records it as a subsidiary within the BPCE S.A. group.

ODDO BHF – A Franco-German private bank and asset manager, formed after Oddo & Cie acquired Seydler, Meriten and BHF Bank from 2015. It operates through ODDO BHF SCA in France and ODDO BHF SE in Germany, both of which appear on the ECB's list of supervised entities.

Societe Generale – One of the largest financial services groups in the eurozone. The Group employs approximately 146,000 people and has about 2,200 branches in France and over 5,300 locations worldwide.

Sofinco – A specialist in consumer lending. It is a brand of Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Group.

Top Banks in France

Total assets (EUR billion)

* Crédit Agricole Group includes Crédit Agricole S.A., Regional Banks and Local Banks.