Banque Palatine is a French bank founded in 1780 in Lyon, and is therefore one of the oldest French banks still being run. It is today a full branch subsidiary of the mutual group BPCE. Its core businesses are retail banking with small and medium-sized enterprises, private banking and asset management. Its headquarters is in Paris downtown, in the la Madeleine neighbourhood. Its long-term debt rating is Aa3 (Moody's). In the end of the 18th century the Vernes family of Ardéchoise origin established in Lyons on the Helvetic bank of the Lake Geneva having taken refuge in the edict of Nantes revocation. The family founded the house of bank Vernes et Compagnie in 1780. This family bank was established in Paris in 1821 and acquired very fast a strong notability in the world of business and a big competence in management of fortunem attaining a reputation comparable to the houses of Rothschild and Mallet. Following the example of other families of Haute Banque8, the Vernes family was intimately linked to the Banque de France directly (Charles Vernes was sub-governor of the Bank of France from 1832 till 1857, Adolphe Vernes was regent from 1886 till 1907 and Jules Félix Vernes was regent from 1921 till 1934) and indirectly by the savoir-faire of the descendants who married daughters or cousins of regents. The family was also linked to the Groupe Caisse d'Épargne (Charles Vernes became censor in 1823, then vice-president in 1844, and Félix Vernes was guiding there in 1879). More information...
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