The Corporate equity derivatives business line is responsible for structuring and sales transactions that make use of equity derivates to solve large corporate clients’ problems involving capital transactions.

Working in partnership with the Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division, the business comprises:

• leveraged employee savings plans,
• stock buybacks,
• hedging of stock options,
• equity line agreement.

Corporate Equity Derivatives also structures and sells equity derivatives to its corporate clients.

In 2007, the Corporate Equity Derivatives business stepped up its development by adding to its French and international teams (in United States and Japan). In this way, it spread its product expertise and increased its geographic coverage.

Crédit Agricole CIB arranged several major structured financing transactions on listed shares on behalf of clients in France and abroad and strengthened its leadership position in the French market for employee stock ownership programs (12 mandates executed, of which seven were for CAC 40France's main stock market index. The CAC 40 is a capitalisation-weighted composed of the forty most heavily traded stocks that are considered to be most representative of the market. The level of the CAC 40 is used as an indicator of general trends in the stock market.
"CAC" stands for Cotation Assistée en Continue (continuous quotation of a stock from opening to close on the Paris Bourse), and the number "40" refers to the 40 stocks from the official list used for the sample. companies).