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...Three other shareholders — the UK’s Universities Superannuation Scheme, Canada’s Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Singapore’s GIC — have also exercised a right to try to sell their stakes...
...He proposed a system similar to France’s Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, in which a small part of every insurance premium is kept aside and used to fund coverage for large natural disasters provided by both...
...Mr Pérol was moved in a hurry earlier this year from the Elysée to effect the merger between Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire, the two mutual banks which between them own 70 per cent of Natixis....
...According to people close to Caisse d’Epargne, it injects €13bn-€15bn in liquidity into the financial system every day....
...Natixis, the lossmaking investment bank in which Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire hold 35 per cent each, has been hit hard by the financial crisis....
...He will be replaced by the head of the Ile de France mutual, Bernard Comolet....
...The guillotine dropped this Sunday on the Caisse d’Epargne, one of France’s biggest and most trusted mutual banking groups....
...Under a complex structure put in place at the time Natixis was created in 2006, the bank owns 20 per cent of both Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire....
...Christine Lagarde, finance minister, is expected to announce tomorrow that the Caisse Centrale de Réassurance, a publicly owned insurer of last resort, will ensure that suppliers remain covered against their...
...Mr Sarkozy also wants the Caisse Central de Réassurance, a state-backed “reinsurer of last resort”, to look into whether it could provide credit insurance for companies if the market dries up....
...“Since the sales of Jupiter and Caisse Centrale de Reescompte, Cominvest was an orphan asset at Commerzbank,” Mr Clark says....
...The bank is selling seven regional retail banking networks that it acquired in 1999 as part of its purchase of Crédit Commercial de France....
...In a show of support, Natixis’s two biggest shareholders – Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire – announced that they were keen to increase their stakes in the bank....
...CCR, which Commerzbank bought as Caisse Centrale de Reescompte in 1993, consists of three operations selling mainly to institutional investors – CCR Actions, which manages European equity portfolios, CCR...
...UBS took a big step in expanding its European fund management activities outside its Swiss base with the €435m purchase of the Caisse Centrale de Réescompte group from Commerzbank....
...UBS on Wednesday took a big step in expanding its European fund management activities outside its Swiss base with the €435m ($620m) purchase of the Caisse Centrale de Réescompte group from Commerzbank....
...Under the agreement, the French government will directly and indirectly control close to 40 per cent of the energy group, including stakes held by state-owned entities such as Areva and Caisses des Dépôts...
...If the merger proceeds, Caisse Nationale d’Epargne (CNCE) and the Banque Federale des Banques Populaires, the majority shareholder in Natexis, will each hold 34 per cent in the new entity Natixis, with at...
...The political favourite for APRR is understood to be a consortium led by Autostrade of Italy, backed by the French state’s financing arm, Caisse de Depots....
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