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Crédit Agricole Assurances has joined the ranks of Scope’s shareholders, underlining the institutional support for the leading European rating agency after recent investments by AXA and BPCE and Scope’s acceptance by the European Central Bank.

CACEIS has enabled clients to subscribe into the first French UCITS money-market funds with units natively issued and delivered on Ethereum’s public blockchain. These tens of millions of euros in investments, mark the launch of CACEIS' new custody architecture for tokenised financial instruments and crypto-assets.

Guangzhou Automobile Corporation (GAC), one of the largest Chinese car manufacturers, has chosen CA Personal Finance & Mobility and its subsidiary CA Auto Bank as its financial partner to support the arrival of its 100% electric range in Europe from January 2025 via its subsidiary GAC International. GAC International will benefit from CA Auto Bank's strong geographic footprint in Europe and its broad catalog of customizable financing solutions. This pan-European partnership is part of CA Personal Finance & Mobility's ambition to become the leader in electric mobility in Europe by 2025.

CA Personal Finance & Mobility announces the planned acquisition of 50% of the equity interests of GAC Finance Leasing Co. Ltd. (GAC Leasing), the leasing company of one of the largest Chinese manufacturers Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (GAC Group), via a reserved capital increase. With this new joint venture, CA Personal Finance & Mobility is expected to offer financial and operational leasing solutions on the Chinese market in 2025 and will thus promote the deployment of electric vehicles in China. This transaction will consolidate a partnership that has existed since 2009 between CA Personal Finance & Mobility and GAC Group with the creation of GAC-Sofinco AFC, a 50-50 joint venture. The latter operates throughout China and offers automotive financing and services to the GAC-Honda, GAC-Toyota, AION, HYPTEC and GAC Motor networks, serving more than 3,000 dealers.

Crédit Agricole Leasing & Factoring (CAL&F) announces the signing of a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA), subject to obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals, to acquire Merca Leasing, one of the top ten independent Leasing companies in Germany. This operation is in line with CAL&F's development strategy, which aims to round out its offering in the European market, and particularly in the dynamic German leasing market.