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Large French banking groups are increasingly concentrating their international activities in the euro area
[L’activité internationale des grands groupes bancaires français est de plus en plus concentrée sur la zone euro]

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  • Isabelle Bottineau
  • Jérôme Coffinet
  • Chloé Le Meur

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The large banking groups studied in this Bulletin (BNP Paribas, BPCE Group, Crédit Agricole Group, Crédit Mutuel Group, Société Générale and HSBC Continental Europe) had total consolidated assets of EUR 8,073 billion at the end of 2021, accounting for 86% of France’s total banking sector. Their footprint extends well beyond national borders: in Europe they are classified as “significant institutions” and have been directly supervised by the European Central Bank since 2014. Four of them (BNP Paribas, BPCE, Crédit Agricole and Société Générale) also qualify as “global systemically important banks”. The successive crises that have unfolded since 2008 – the financial crisis, the sovereign debt crisis, the public health crisis and then the war in Ukraine – have had knock-on effects on French banks’ foreign activities. The latter have become increasingly concentrated in the euro area in recent years, at a time when the growing integration of the Banking Union is making cross-border operations in the region less risky. Les grands groupes bancaires étudiés dans ce Bulletin (BNP Paribas, Groupe BPCE, Groupe Crédit Agricole, Groupe Crédit Mutuel, Société Générale et HSBC Continental Europe) totalisent, fin 2021, un montant total d’actifs consolidés de 8 073 milliards d’euros, représentant 86 % de l’ensemble du secteur bancaire français. Leur envergure dépasse largement le seul cadre national : en Europe, ils sont considérés comme des « banques importantes » placées sous la supervision directe de la Banque centrale européenne depuis 2014. Quatre d’entre elles (BNP Paribas, BPCE, Crédit Agricole et Société Générale) appartiennent aux « banques d’importance systémique mondiale ». Les crises successives depuis 2008 – crise financière, crise des dettes souveraines, crise sanitaire puis guerre en Ukraine – ont des répercussions économiques sur l’activité internationale des banques. Celle-ci s’est beaucoup recentrée sur la zone euro ces dernières années, dans un contexte d’intégration croissante de l’Union bancaire de nature à diminuer les risques des opérations transfrontalières.

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  • Isabelle Bottineau & Jérôme Coffinet & Chloé Le Meur, 2022. "Large French banking groups are increasingly concentrating their international activities in the euro area [L’activité internationale des grands groupes bancaires français est de plus en plus conce," Bulletin de la Banque de France, Banque de France, issue 241.
  • Handle: RePEc:bfr:bullbf:2022:241:04
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