{"id":36027,"date":"2026-06-16T01:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/36027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:08:23","slug":"credit-agricole-140-years-of-history-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/36027\/","title":{"rendered":"Cr\u00e9dit Agricole 140 years of history: 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further extensions of its scope of action allowed it to serve all types of customers, from households to businesses, and all economic sectors. Cr\u00e9dit Agricole was on track to become a universal bank, which it fully achieved in 1991 with the lifting of the last restrictions on corporate and investment banking.<\/p>\n<p>To meet the needs of its customers, particularly in terms of savings, it embarked on a different activity from banking with the creation of Predica, its life insurance subsidiary. This was soon a great success and contributed to ranking the Group among the leaders in bancassurance.<\/p>\n<p>This gradual transformation of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole from a financial institution specialised in farming to a universal bank serving all types of customers occurred despite the fact that its structure had barely changed since 1920. The Caisse Nationale was still a public entity under government supervision, serving as the central institution for the regional banks, private cooperative companies. However, the regional banks wanted to take control of the Group\u2019s fate by freeing it from the public authorities. Therefore, in 1987, they bought the capital of the Caisse Nationale from the government and became the majority shareholders. This operation was referred to as the mutualisation of the Caisse Nationale.<\/p>\n<p>Three posters showing Cr\u00e9dit Agricole\u2019s three activities in the 1980s: retail banking, international trade and life insurance<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c3ec385af96c-Affiches-Banque-Credit-Agricole-Annees-1980.jpg\" title=\"Affiches Banque Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Ann\u00e9es 1980.jpg\" alt=\"Affiches Banque Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Ann\u00e9es 1980.jpg\" style=\"max-width: min(100%, 1083px);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1aae7c949aae-Logo-Banque-Credit-Agricole-Annees-80.jpg\" title=\"Logo Banque Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Ann\u00e9es 80.jpg\" alt=\"Logo Banque Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Ann\u00e9es 80.jpg\" style=\"max-width: min(100%, 200px);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cr\u00e9dit Agricole logo since 1987<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate the institutional change, a new visual identity was deployed with the adoption of the logo which is still used today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Further extensions of its scope of action allowed it to serve all types of customers, from households to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12927],"tags":[8301,13758,13760,13759,12947,13757,13761],"class_list":["post-36027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-credit-agricole","tag-action","tag-actualite","tag-banque","tag-cours-de-bourse","tag-credit-agricole","tag-credit-agricole-sa","tag-groupe-credit-agricole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}