Jean-Yves Forel
Jean-Yves Forel, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, member of the General Management Committee, in charge of the development of retail banking business in Europe and for strategic thinking regarding the development of Fidor.
After graduating from IEP Grenoble and obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Economic Science, Jean-Yves Forel began his career in 1983 at Banque Populaire des Alpes. After a period working in retail banking, he was appointed head of Operations in 1992, then General Manager in 1995. He subsequently joined Banque Populaire Bretagne-Atlantique as General Manager in charge of business development and responsible for managing the business line subsidiaries in 1997.
In 2000, he was appointed head of Business Development for Banque Fédérale des Banques Populaires and became a member of the General Management Committee in 2001. He then joined Natexis Banques Populaires in 2003, where he was appointed member of the General Management Committee and head of Banking, Financial and Technological Services. In November 2006, he became a member of Natixis’ Executive Management Committee and head of its Specialized Financial Services division.
From 2013 to 2016, Jean-Yves Forel served as a member of the Groupe BPCE Management Board and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, in charge of Commercial Banking and Insurance for Groupe BPCE. Since 2016, he has been in charge of IT, and Transformation and Business Efficiency.
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February 23, 2017
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Groupe BPCE, prior to the launch of its future strategic plan, unveils a plan to transform its retail banking activities
February 21, 2017
Faced with new expectations on the part of its customers and a paradigm shift in the technological environment, Groupe BPCE announces the launch of a retail banking transformation plan.[...]
Apple Pay available to Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne customers starting today
July 19, 2016
Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne will offer customers Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient[...]
Groupe BPCE will offer Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne customers Apple Pay
June 13, 2016
Groupe BPCE will offer Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne customers Apple Pay, which is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast[...]
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The Group’s long-term senior preferred debt is rated by four financial rating agencies: Moody’s (A1, outlook stable), S&P (A+, outlook stable), Fitch (A+, outlook stable) and R&I (A, outlook positive). Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France, includes two independent and complementary cooperative commercial banking networks: the network of 14 Banque Populaire banks and the network of 15 Caisses d’Epargne. The Group is active in the fields of medium-sized company financing and private banking, notably through Banque Palatine, and in the area of real-estate financing through Crédit Foncier. It is a major player in Asset & Wealth Management, Insurance, Corporate & Investment Banking and Specialized Financial Services with Natixis. Through its 106,500 employees, Groupe BPCE serves a total of 31 million customers and enjoys a strong local presence in France with 7,800 branches and 9 million cooperative shareholders. The Group’s long-term senior preferred debt is rated by four financial rating agencies: Moody’s (A1, stable outlook), S&P (A+, stable outlook), Fitch (A+, stable outlook) and R&I (A, positive outlook).
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