Crédit Agricole CIB

Business lines

Crédit Agricole CIB offers a full range of products and services in capital markets, brokerage, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international private banking.

Structured Finance

The Structured Finance business consists in originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and abroad, often backed by collateral security (e.g. aircraft, ships, corporate real estate, or commodities), as well as complex and structured loans.

The Structured Finance division comprises nine finance segments: aviation and rail / shipping finance / tax-based leases / natural resources, infrastructure and power / real estate and lodging / export and trade finance / acquisition finance / transactional commodity finance / structured finance advisory.

In each of these activities, Crédit Agricole CIB ranks among the world's top players.

Air transportation and rail financing With its over 35 years long experience in the field, Crédit Agricole CIB gives preference to lasting relationships with its customers. The expertise of its teams is recognised worldwide in the air and rail transportation markets.
Shipping finance Active in this field for 30 years now, Crédit Agricole CIB ranks amongst the world's leading banks in shipping finance. It finances a modern and diversified fleet of over 1,150 ships for an international customer base of ship-owners.
Tax based leases Crédit Agricole CIB specialists implement optimised asset-financing arrangements that are adapted to the major investments made by its clients in order to benefit from a substantial reduction in the cost of financing their investments.
 Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Power Crédit Agricole CIB's sectoral competencies enhance its expertise in the areas of financial advisory and arrangement of project finance, commodities and natural resources. With over 160 professionals worldwide distributed amongst its regional centres of expertise, Crédit Agricole CIB ranks amongst the leading banks in Europe in this area.
Real estate and lodging With its intimate knowledge of the real estate and lodging sectors, Crédit Agricole CIB has a unique worldwide expertise. This business line lines up 130 professionals, based in 11 countries. Acquisition Finance Present in Europe and in Asia, the product line provides private equity funds with a tailormade range of services. This range is at all stages of their business life.
Transactional Commodity Finance The Transactional Commodity Finance team is active in three areas via energy (oil and by products, coal and biofuels), soft commodities and metals. Global Energy Group Crédit Agricole CIB is one of the leading players worldwide in the energy sector. The know-how of its specialised business lines and its extensive international client base make it a force to be reckoned with. In this specific sector, the Global Energy Group (GEG) supervises and develops the Bank's Oil & Gas franchise.
Export & Trade Finance The global Export & Trade Finance product line is providing our exporting, importing and investing customers a complete product range including all the banking services and financing products in the field of international trade.