Shadow banking
13 September 2018

The French investment bank and asset manager is offloading lending units to parent company BPCE for 2.7 bln euros. Ditching capital-intensive business makes sense. But as banking still brings in half its operating profit, hopes for an Amundi-style valuation will have to wait.
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