{"id":69264,"date":"2026-08-25T05:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/69264\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:19:34","slug":"credit-agricole-140-years-of-history-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/69264\/","title":{"rendered":"Cr\u00e9dit Agricole 140 years of history : 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the end of the war, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole improved its operations. In 1920, it decided to replace the government advances distribution committee with a public entity. This led to the creation of the Office National du Cr\u00e9dit Agricole, renamed Caisse Nationale de Cr\u00e9dit Agricole in 1926. This was a unique set-up, with a public entity acting as the central institution for private cooperative entities \u2013 the regional banks. State control over the Caisse Nationale allowed it to guide major decisions on agricultural investment.<\/p>\n<p>Extension of the scope of action<\/p>\n<p>It was also at this time of relaunching farming that subsidised loans distributed by Cr\u00e9dit Agricole were put in place, allowing farmers to borrow at a preferential rate, with the government paying the difference. This product boosted Cr\u00e9dit Agricole\u2019s growth. The regional banks also recorded an increase in the number of deposit accounts opened during this period.<\/p>\n<p>In 1923, the government authorised Cr\u00e9dit Agricole to finance rural municipalities for their electrification. This was a real success. A large number of villages could thus access electricity and, again, this helped combat the rural exodus.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, from 1928, the regional banks were able to grant low-interest loans to farm workers and small tradesmen of limited means for the construction or purchase of a home or for its enhancement and sanitation. This new extension of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole\u2019s scope of action was enthusiastically welcomed by the regional banks, which saw this as a way of improving living conditions in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decade was also marked by several extensions of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole\u2019s scope of action. \u00a0First of all, from 1920, it was no longer necessary to be a member of a farmers\u2019 union to become a mutual shareholder of Cr\u00e9dit Agricole. In addition, a new category of borrowers, rural tradesmen, could also apply for loans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cebc5ec58366-Archives-de-CASA-1920-EN.jpg\" title=\"Archives de CASA 1920 EN\" alt=\"Archives de CASA 1920 EN\" style=\"max-width: min(100%, 2691px);\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the end of the war, Cr\u00e9dit Agricole improved its operations. In 1920, it decided to replace the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12927],"tags":[8301,13758,13760,13759,12947,13757,13761],"class_list":["post-69264","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\/69264","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=69264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}