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Thursday, 21 March 2024

Crédit Agricole announces launch of a joint venture with Worldline

After receiving unconditional authorisation from the European Commission, Crédit Agricole and Worldline have reached a new milestone in their partnership, announcing the launch of a joint venture that aims to become a major player in the French merchant payment services market.

The joint venture, whose brand will be unveiled in the near future, will leverage Worldline’s technological excellence and capacity for innovation, particularly in payment acceptance, as well as the Crédit Agricole group’s performance in the French merchant acquiring market. It will also develop business with merchants while proactively supporting the Crédit Agricole group’s retail banks.

At the first Board meeting, held on 19 March 2024, Laurent Bennet, CEO of Crédit Agricole des Savoie and Chairman of CAPS, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and Meriem Echcherfi was appointed Chief Executive.

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Polish regulations require banks to provide their customers with an e-mail address for credit-related documents. In that way, Crédit Agricole Bank Polska has launched its e-delivery box, the electronic equivalent of registered letters with acknowledgement of receipt. This service ensures secure correspondence between the bank, customers, partners and other institutions and public entities. In particular, the e-delivery box guarantees that the contents have not been altered or tampered with after being sent to the addressee.

Operational Memorandum NF 2024-05, “Data governance in the Crédit Agricole group: principles and organisational arrangements”, sets out principles to be applied within the Group to ensure that data governance arrangements foster increased use of data in support of the Customer, Human-Centric and Societal Projects and the strategies of Group entities and business lines and that such use is controlled and complies with regulations and Group standards. Data governance falls within the responsibilities of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) of each Crédit Agricole S.A. entity and/or department. The memorandum also sets out the role of the Group CDO. It can be found online at the Affaires Générales site.

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PODCAST

Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance has launched the “Transformons l’avenir” (“Transforming the Future”) podcast, a series of conversations and perspectives about our changing economy.
The first episode, on the subject of transitioning to low-carbon forms of mobility, shares perspectives from Léo Larivière of NGO Transport & Environment and Stéphane Priami, CEO of Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance. Issues discussed include moving towards more sustainable mobility, rethinking our modes of transport and reviewing how we use our cars.

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100 days to go to the 2024 Tour de France: andiamo!

The 2024 Tour de France starts in just 100 days’ time. The 111th Tour will kick off in Tuscan capital Florence on 29 June and end on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais on 21 July.
While this year marks the 26th time in history that the symbolic countdown of the last 100 days before the Tour has been triggered from outside France, it’s the first time it’s ever been triggered from Italy. The competitors will spend three days riding on Italian roads before crossing the Alps into France during the fourth stage. Florence, Rimini, Cesenatico, Bologna, Piacenza, Turin…
Take a look at the route of the first three stages in Italy..

IFCAM webinar

Learning through sports

Wednesday 3 April, 1:00 to 2:15 p.m.

Don’t miss this fascinating discussion between a young elite sportsperson and a Doctor of Education.
Through the story of champion BMX racer Mathilde Doudoux, Dorothée Cavignaux Bros, Head of Research at IFCAM’s R&D Innovation Lab, will unpack the significance of goals, motivation, focus, effort, failure, success and perseverance – concepts common to all forms of learning.

“Off the charts”

As the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial gets underway, bringing together climate leaders and ministers for the first time since COP28, the World Meteorological Organization has published its report on the state of the global climate in 2023 which it describes as “off the charts”. The report says 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average temperature 1.45°C above the pre-industrial baseline, and that the number of people suffering acute food insecurity has more than doubled (from 149 million before the pandemic to 333 million in 2023). There was, however, a faint glimmer of hope: renewable energy capacity additions were nearly 50% higher than the previous year at 510 GW – the highest rate of capacity growth in the past two decades.

UNITED KINGDOM – Green transition: mid-point review

The United Kingdom has made notable progress in transitioning towards a low-carbon economy. It became the first country to halve its territorial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 1990 and 2022, mostly thanks to a big shift away from coal and towards energy from renewable sources. However, the hardest part is still to come…

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