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Crédit Agricole
Bank acquirer · Issuer
FranceFounded 1894- Revenue
- €39.6bnnet banking income (group, FY2025) · as of 2025
- Employees
- 160,200FTE (Groupe Crédit Agricole, permanent and fixed-term employees in full-time equivalent at 31 December 2025; 2024: 157,714)
- Headquarters
- Montrouge, France
- Website
- credit-agricole.com
What it does
French cooperative banking group whose 39 Caisses régionales and LCL sign merchants for card acceptance as the acquiring bank, with Crédit Agricole Payment Services running the group's payment processing and CAWL, wholly owned since 30 June 2026, designing the merchant payment offers the group's banks sell, built on Worldline acceptance technology.
Deals
- Jun 2026·acquired CAWL — Crédit Agricole acquired all shares held by the Worldline group in CAWL, their French merchant payments joint venture, in a deal announced and completed on 30 Jun 2026 with no price disclosed. CAWL keeps integrating Worldline's acceptance solutions under a commercial partnership instead of an equity model.
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