Mutual and Cooperative Banking for the Benefit of the Economy
Mutual and Cooperative Banking for the Benefit of the EconomyBPCE Chair
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The mission of this chair, signed for three years, is to study the role of mutual and cooperative banks in the world, their commitment to the economy and regions, and their resilience in the face of economic crises.
It also aims, more broadly, to develop research on the interactions between finance, the real economy and society.
A few words from
Nicolas Namias
Chairman of the Management Board
Groupe BPCE
“This new Chair with ESCP Business School underscores Groupe BPCE’s attachment to its universal cooperative banking model. Groupe BPCE’s banks and ESCP share a common history dating back over 200 years and have both made their mark on the major economic and industrial transformations that have shaped our country. Ever since their origins, the Group’s companies, and particularly the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne banks, have reconciled financial performance with social progress in the heart of the regions where their operate. Today, I am convinced this new Chair will highlight the benefits of the model upheld by mutual and cooperative banks and its undoubted value for the future.”
Nicolas Namias, Chairman of the Management Board, Groupe BPCE Photo credit: ©Greg Gonzalez/BPCE
A few words from
Cristina Peicuti and
Christophe Moussu
Scientific co-directors
“The creation of this Chair leverages the shared values of ESCP Business School and Groupe BPCE and provides the opportunity to expand academic research on the theme of mutual and cooperative banks and particularly to examine how they function for the benefit of the economy and society. This research will enable our students to better understand the richness of the cooperative banking model and its modernity.”
Professors Cristina Peicuti and Christophe Moussu, Scientific co-directors of the BPCE Chair
Groupe BPCE is the second-largest banking group in France. Through its 100,000 staff, the group serves 35 million customers – individuals, professionals, companies, investors and local government bodies – around the world.
It operates in the retail banking and insurance fields in France via its two major networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, along with Banque Palatine and Oney. It also pursues its activities worldwide with the asset & wealth management services provided by Natixis Investment Managers and the wholesale banking expertise of Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking.
The Group's financial strength is recognized by four credit rating agencies with the following senior preferred LT ratings: Moody's (A1, stable outlook), Standard & Poor's (A, stable outlook), Fitch (AA-, negative outlook) and R&I (A+, stable outlook).
Objectives
Research work
To promote research on the theme of mutual banks and their resilience in financial crises, whether endogenous to the economic system or exogenous.
Promotion of research
To promote research on economic and financial issues with societal implications.
Topics
Topics studied may include financial institutions and their governance, women's representation, gender equality and the inclusion of disabled people in financial institutions, the real effects of financial markets, the regulation of finance, issues linking finance, corporate governance and CSR, finance and climate/environment, finance, work and value sharing.
Activities
- Research projects
- Articles
- Research thesis and Master thesis
- Guest speakers in the ESCP courses
- Best Master thesis prize
- Conferences
- Workshops
Focus on...
Article
Although the banking sector is highly feminised, it still has a masculine image. In fact, too few women hold positions of responsibility. In order to achieve a future where equality will be effective, regulation will need to play an important role in transforming the sector and establishing de facto equality so that one day it will feel natural to all.
News and Events
Research & Publications
Article
Feminisation of positions of responsibility in the workplace as a goal of Compliance Example of the banking sector
Economist, Natixis SA
Jacques Beyssade
General Secretaray, BPCE Group
2023
Although the banking sector is highly feminised, it still has a masculine image. In fact, too few women hold positions of responsibility. In order to achieve a future where equality will be effective, regulation will need to play an important role in transforming the sector and establishing de facto equality so that one day it will feel natural to all.
Book
Decoding Economic Crises
ESCP Business School - Economist, Natixis SA, France
Jean-Marc Daniel
ESCP Business School, France
2023
Constantly bandied about, 'crisis' has tended to be a much-overused word. Understanding the economy and its future challenges requires a detailed and precise analysis of what an economic crisis is. The book attempts to answer the question of whether American leadership has emerged unscathed from the damage inflicted by the 1975, 1992, 2009 and 2020 recessions and their legacies of debt.
As for environmental issues, this book interrogates whether they carry with them a devastating crisis, reminiscent of the 'nutritional trap' theorized by Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, and asks if there will be a return to times of extreme scarcity as seen prior to the mid-18th century.