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BPCE (for Banque Populaire Caisse d'Epargne) 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 ]
A replica of the first caisse populaire in Petit-Rocher was erected at the Village historique acadien in 2009. Mobile services were launched in 2010. [1] In 2012, Caisses populaires acadiennes was named a platinum partner of the Congrès mondial acadien 2014. The Financial Business Centre and the Centre administratif Acadie were also established.
In the late 1990s, the number of caisses was reduced from 1275 to 800. [6] Between 2008 and 2010, total assets at Desjardins Group grew over 15% from Can$151.9 billion (when it ranked sixth in Canada and first in Quebec among financial institutions ahead of the National Bank of Canada) to over $175 billion in 2010.
Groupe Banque Populaire started in 1878 with the foundation of the first local "people's bank" (French: banque populaire) in the western French city of Angers.During World War I, Commerce Minister Étienne Clémentel was instrumental in passing the law of 13 March 1917 which established the local Popular Banks' cooperative status and granted them favorable financial and tax treatment, with ...
Credit unions are called caisses populaires in French-speaking communities of Canada. This one is located in Shediac, New Brunswick. Canada has significant per-capita membership in credit unions, representing more than a third of the working-age population. [1]
Canada has a strong co-operative financial services sector, which consists of credit unions (caisses populaires in Quebec and other French speaking regions). At the end of 2001, Canada's credit union sector consisted of 681 credit unions and 914 caisses populaires , with more than 3,600 locations and 4,100 automated teller machines. [ 45 ]
Caisse populaire de Hawkesbury Limitée (#0495) Caisse populaire Nouvel-Horizon Inc. (#2179) Caisse Populaire Rideau-Vision d'Ottawa Inc. (#2206) Caisse populaire Sud-Ouest Ontario Inc. (#2224) Caisse populaire Trillium Inc. (#2209) Caisse populaire de la Vallée (#2162) Caisse populaire Vallée Est Ltée. (#2212) Caisse populaire Vermillon ...
At the time of his death in 1920, there were 187 caisses populaires in Québec (30,000 members and total assets of nearly $6 million), 24 in Ontario and 9 in the United States. Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins' home, where the first caisse populaire was launched, is now a center dedicated to his memory and has been visited by over 178,000 ...