ATHENS, May 10 (Reuters) - Greece's third-largest lender Alpha Bank on Friday posted net first quarter profit of 2.88 billion euros ($3.75 billion), booking goodwill on its acquisition of Emporiki Bank from Credit Agricole.

Italy's cooperative bank Banco Popolare SC (BP.MI) said Wednesday it has agreed with France's Credit Agricole (CRARY, ACA.FR) to inject 450 million euros ($592.2 million) into their loss-making consumer credit unit, Agos Ducato--aiming at turning the

PARIS/MILAN, May 8 (Reuters) - France's Credit Agricole and Italy's Banco Popolare have agreed to inject 450 million euros ($593 million) into their consumer credit joint venture Agos Ducato, which...

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PARIS, May 8 (Reuters) - Credit Agricole has reached a deal with Italy's Banco Popolare over their troubled consumer credit joint venture Agos Ducato involving a capital injection, the French bank...

PARIS, May 8 (Reuters) - Credit Agricole has reached a deal with Italy's Banco Popolare over their troubled consumer credit joint venture Agos Ducato involving a capital injection, the French bank said on Wednesday.

PARIS, May 7 (Reuters) - French banks Societe Generale and Credit Agricole vowed on Tuesday to keep cutting costs after asset sales and lending cutbacks helped to offset a weak domestic economy in the first quarter.

PARIS, May 7 (Reuters) - French banks Societe Generale and Credit Agricole vowed on Tuesday to keep cutting costs after asset sales and lending cutbacks helped to offset a weak domestic economy in...

PARIS, May 7 (Reuters) - French banks Societe Generale and Credit Agricole vowed on Tuesday to keep cutting costs after asset sales and lending cutbacks helped to offset a weak domestic economy in...

* Core Tier 1 ratio falls to 8.5 pct from 9.2 pct (Adds Tier 1 ratio, loan provisioning details)

Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) Tuesday said first-quarter net profit jumped 51%, as the French bank draws a line under its disastrous foray into Greece, and slims down its investment bank to cope with Europe's sovereign-debt crisis.

PARIS, May 7 (Reuters) - French bank Credit Agricole said on Tuesday that its quarterly earnings rose 51 percent, helped by the sale of a Greek unit which had cost it heavily in the year-ago period.

* Credit Agricole, SocGen to post results on Tuesday (Adds confirmation on "bad bank" plans, share performance)

Lead Manager(s) Credit Agricole CIB, Commerzbank, LBBW, NordLB,

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LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - French bank Credit Agricole cleared the final hurdle to exit the British gas market when energy regulator Ofgem on Wednesday approved the bank's request to cancel its UK gas trading licence.

Lead Manager(s) Credit Agricole CIB, Citi, Deutsche

Lead Manager(s) Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank & HSBC

Lead Manager(s) Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank & HSBC

Italian lender Banco Popolare (BP.MI) plans to reduce its stake in Agos Ducato, a consumer credit unit it jointly owns with French bank Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR), reports French business daily Les Echos, without citing sources.

RIYADH, April 14 (Reuters) - Banque Saudi Fransi, the lender part-owned by Credit Agricole, posted a 13.3 percent drop in its first-quarter net profit, it said in a bourse statement on Sunday, missing analysts' forecasts.

Credit Agricole SA's (ACA.FR) investment banking unit seeks to cut costs by 15% between now and 2015-16 and shrink activities, its chief executive Jean-Yves Hocher said in an interview with the Financial Times released Monday.

France's two largest listed banks by assets BNP Paribas SA (BNP.FR) and Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) helped customers evade tax by setting up offshore companies in the Virgin islands, Samoa and Singapore during the late 90s and the following decade, F

PARIS (Reuters) - Credit Agricole is aiming for a return on equity of 12 percent through 2016 and will cut fixed costs by 15 percent to achieve it, the head of its investment banking unit told Les Echos newspaper and Agefi newsletter.

Credit Agricoleis aiming for a return on equity of 12 percent through 2016 and will cut fixed costs by 15 percent to achieve it, the head of its investment banking unit told Les Echos newspaper and Agefi newsletter.

PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - Credit Agricole is aiming for a return on equity of 12 percent through 2016 and will cut fixed costs by 15 percent to achieve it, the head of its investment banking unit told Les Echos newspaper and Agefi newsletter.

Cacib, the corporate and investment bank unit of French lender Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR), must cut its fixed costs by 15% by 2016, the unit's chief told French daily newspaper Les Echos.

* European players drop down rankings vs US and Asian rivals

* European players drop down rankings vs US and Asian rivals

* European players drop down rankings vs US and Asian rivals

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Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) may challenge in court a decision by tax authorities to deny the French bank a tax deduction worth nearly 1 billion euros ($1.29 billion) that it sought for 2012 on the losses it made in Greece, reported French daily Le Mo

By Leslie Shaffer"Switching, yes; great rotation, no," says Victor Choi, head of markets and investment solutions for Asia at Credit Agricole private banking, which has US$47 billion of client assets under management.Since the financial crisis, Credi

The fundamentals of Italy's economy remain sound despite the country's complex political situation, Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Chifflet said Wednesday in an interview on French radio.

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are down more than 1 percent Monday morning following an earlier downgrade from Credit Agricole's Avi Silver.

French lender Credit Agricole (ACA.FR) was planning a two-part bond sale Tuesday, an official on the bank's syndicate desk said.

Lead Manager(s) Credit Agricole CIB, Commerzbank, ING,

Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) Thursday is planning to sell a new seven-year covered bond, one of the banks working on the transaction said.

Dominic Chu reports on an exchange between Credit Agricole Securities Analyst Mike Mayo and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon over capital ratios. Chu speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” Source: Bloomberg, Feb. 26 2013 Hat tip M

Feb 21 - Fitch Ratings says that Credit Agricole's ('A+'/Negative/'a') Q412 earnings release did not provide information that wouldprompt any immediate rating action. Operating profit for the...

French bank Credit Agricole SA (CRARY) will proceed with a capital increase at its Italian consumer credit unit Agos-Ducato in the next few weeks, said the company Deputy Chief Executive Bruno de Laage Wednesday.

The French bank said a series of write-downs and other charges had contributed to its largest-ever annual loss, as the bank looked to move beyond the problems in Greece and Italy that have hobbled its recent earnings.

French bank Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) said Wednesday it had sold its remaining stake in Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo (SP.MI) in 2012, in a presentation posted on its website.

Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) Wednesday pledged to strengthen its finances, and to present this autumn a new three-year strategic plan, even as the French bank posted a steep fourth-quarter loss, hurt by write-downs on its investment bank and its Itali

French bank Credit Agricole reports a worse-than-expected annual loss after an unexpected tax charge pushes it deeper into the red.