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The financing model is evolving

Out of total corporate financing of 1,356 billion as of the end of December 2014, the proportion of bank lending to market financing was 62%/38% (compared to 70%/30% at the (…)

Loans to businesses: +2.3% year-on-year

Outstanding loans to businesses stood at 838 billion euros at the end of December 2014, up 2.3% year-on-year. Investment loan outstandings constituted the most dynamic share: (…)

New rules to strengthen transparency and security

Over the past five years, the European Union has adopted some twenty reforms to strengthen the security of the banking and financial system: the capital and liquidity requirements (…)

French banks and european banking reforms

After five years of comprehensive regulation (CRR-CRD4, Resolution Directive, Banking Union, EMIR, MIFID2), which led to large-scale adjustments by banks, the results of (…)

The Euro PP Steering Committee releases two model agreements for Euro PPs (Euro Private Placements), responding to needs of both issuers and (…)

The Euro PP Steering Committee, consisting of major Paris market professional associations along with other Euro PP market participants, is releasing on 8 January 2015 two (…)

French and German business organisations warn about the negative impact of the FTT on financing and risk management of non-financial companies

French banks finance their customers’ projects

Outstanding loans to businesses have risen sharply in France while they have fallen across the eurozone as a whole, even in Germany. French banks have played a counter-cyclical (…)

FBF management report 2002

On January 1st 2002, France along with eleven other European countries entered the era of the euro. The changeover to the new currency has been a success thanks to five years (…)