List of banks in France


The following list of banks in France is to be understood within the framework of the European single market and European banking union, which means that France's banking system is more open to cross-border banking operations than peers outside of the EU.

Policy framework

European banking supervision distinguishes between significant institutions and less significant institutions, with SI/LSI designations updated regularly by the European Central Bank. Significant institutions are directly supervised by the ECB using joint supervisory teams that involve the national competent authorities of individual participating countries. Less significant institutions are supervised by the relevant NCA on a day-to-day basis, under the supervisory oversight of the ECB. In France's case, the NCA is the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority, hosted within the Bank of France and known by the acronym ACPR.

Significant institutions

As of, the ECB had the following 12 banking groups based in France in its list of significant institutions.
Of these, BNP Paribas, BPCE, Crédit Agricole, and Société Générale have been consistently designated as Global systemically important banks by the Financial Stability Board, including in the update of November 2025. A study published in 2024 assessed that the bank with most aggregate assets in France was Crédit Agricole at nearly €2 trillion, followed by BNP Paribas, BPCE, Société Générale and Crédit Mutuel, and La Banque Postale. France is also home to subsidiaries of other euro-area significant institutions namely Crelan, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and Santander.

Less significant institutions

As of, the ECB's list of supervised institutions included 93 French LSIs.

High-impact LSIs

Of these, five were designated by the ECB as "high-impact" on the basis of several criteria including size:
Of these, LCH SA met the criteria for SI designation, but has been classified by the ECB as a LSI by special derogation together with a handful of other financial market infrastructures.

Municipal pawnbrokers

Again based on the same ECB lists, 17 French LSIs were specialized municipal pawnbrokers :
  • Caisse De Credit Municipal d'Avignon
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Bordeaux
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Boulogne-Sur-Mer
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Dijon
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Lille
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Lyon
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Marseille
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Nancy
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Nantes
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Nice
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Reims
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Roubaix
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Strasbourg
  • Caisse de Credit Municipal de Toulon
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Other domestic LSIs

The 42 other domestic French LSI were:
  • Agence France Locale - Société Territoriale, holding entity of Agence France Locale
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  • Allianz Banque, subsidiary of Allianz
  • Axa Banque Financement, subsidiary of Axa Banque
  • * Axa Home Loan SFH, subsidiary of Axa Banque
  • Banque Chabrieres
  • Bakia SCA, holding entity of Banque Michel Inchauspé
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  • Banque Pouyanne
  • Compagnie Financière Richelieu, holding entity of Banque Richelieu
  • * Banque Richelieu France SA
  • Enyo SA, owner of Banque Saint Olive
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  • Carrefour Banque, subsidiary of Carrefour
  • Crédit Immobilier de France Développement, holding of state-owned
  • * Caisse Centrale du Credit Immobilier de France-3CIF
  • * CIF Euromortgage
  • Epargne Credit Des Militaires
  • Gresham Banque, subsidiary of
  • IC Financial Services, subsidiary of Iveco
  • Memo Bank SA, an online bank
  • Compagnie Financière Holding Mixte Milléis, holding entity of Milleis Banque
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  • * Groupe Cholet Dupont, owned by Milléis
  • * Cholet Dupont Oudart, part of Groupe Cholet Dupont
  • Mobilis banque, affiliate of Association Familiale Mulliez
  • Oddo BHF, subsidiary of Financière IDAT
  • Compagnie Financière d'Orange Bank, subsidiary of Orange Group
  • *, subsidiary of C. F. d'Orange Bank
  • Rothschild Martin Maurel, subsidiary of Rothschild & Co
  • Société Auxiliaire d'Etudes et d'Investissements Mobiliers
  • Société Financière de
  • Socram Banque, subsidiary of Macif
  • Sofax Banque, subsidiary of TotalEnergies
  • Stellantis Financial Services Europe, subsidiary of Stellantis
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Non-euro-area-controlled LSIs

Based on the same ECB list, 29 French LSIs were affiliates of financial groups based outside the euro area, among which 26 subsidiaries and 3 branches of banks based in the European Economic Area but outside of the euro area:

Third-country branches

As of, the following banking groups established outside the EEA had branches in France :

Other institutions

The Bank of France, Agence Française de Développement, and Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, all based in Paris, are public credit institutions that do not hold a banking license under EU law.

Defunct banks

Numerous former French banks, defined as having been headquartered in the present-day territory of France, are documented on Wikipedia. They are listed below in chronological order of establishment, divided into three categories.

Banks of issue in Metropolitan France

The Bank of France, created in 1800, secured its monopoly of bank issuance on the whole territory of Metropolitan France in 1848, which was only briefly contested in the aftermath of the annexation of Savoy in the early 1860s.

Colonial and overseas banks

Several colonial and overseas banks had most of their operations outside of Metropolitan France but were nevertheless based there, generally in Paris, for at least part of their existence. For example, the Banque de l'Algérie was originally headquartered in Algiers, but relocated its head office to Paris in 1900. The Ottoman Bank had dual headquarters in London and Paris.

Other banks

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