OREANDA-NEWS. March 25, 2011. End of March 2011, PJSC “INDEXBANK” adopts the name Credit Agricole*, its French mother company, reported the press-centre of Credit Agricole.

The Credit Agricole Group is market leader in full-service retail banking in France and one of the largest banks in Europe. With operations in 70 countries, the Credit Agricole Group is a leading partner in supporting clients with their projects in all areas of retail banking and associated specialised business lines: day-to-day banking, savings, home and consumer loans, insurance, private banking, asset management, leasing and factoring, and corporate and investment banking. On the strength of its cooperative and mutualist foundations, the Credit Agricole Group's expansion is underpinned by balanced growth serving the real economy and respecting the interests of its 54 million customers, 1.2 million shareholders, 6.1 million cooperative shareholders and of its 160,000 employees.

In Ukraine Credit Agricole is an universal bank and provides full range of modern banking services to private individuals and legal entities in all regions through its 200 points of sale. 370 000 of PI customers and more than 25 000 corporate customers rely on its financial expertise and confirm its reliability and business reputation. In our country, Credit Agricole holds a leading position on car and cash loans markets, successfully promotes salary projects, grants mortgage loans for the purchase of housing on the primary and secondary markets, attracts deposits, services payment cards, makes money transfers and provides number of other services to PIs, including insurances.

Due to its expertise and skills deeply rooted in its history – being founded in France more than a hundred years ago by farmers – Credit Agricole in Ukraine renders all range of services for business with a specific focus on agricultural companies.

Being a part of an international financial group, Credit Agricole in Ukraine pays great attention to service quality and customer satisfaction, be they individuals or corporate, thus following worldwide standards.

Adopting the name of its mother company, Credit Agricole in Ukraine will benefit from its international reputation – solidity, expertise, customer-centric approach, its financial skills and its true knowledge of the Ukrainian markets to insure its sustainable development.

Credit Agricole is included in the three main sustainable development indices: Aspi Eurozone since 2004, FTSE4Good since 2005 and the DJSI since 2008 (Europe and worldwide).
It is ranked the eighth most sustainable corporation in the world and No. 1 in France in the 2011 Global 100 List. Credit Agricole has been operating on the Ukrainian banking markets for 18 years, both through its corporate subsidiary CA-CIB and more recently with INDEXBANK on retail and enterprises markets.

* PJSC “CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK”