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  CNN.com - Lyonnais sparkles on bid talk - Nov. 25, 2002
Lyonnais (PCL) shot up by more than 20 percent, or 7.78 euros, to 46.72 euros and BNP (PBNP)slipped 2.59 euros, or 5.3 percent, to 43 euros in early Paris trading on Monday.
He said making a full bid for Lyonnais was not an issue at the current time and would not lead to a change in leadership at Lyonnais, although he would like to establish "close dialogue" with the bank's management.
Credit Lyonnais, which has a market capitalisation of about 13 billion euros and is seen as too small to continue on its own in the long-term, held talks with Credit Agricole about a merger earlier this year before disagreements over the balance of power in a combined group scuppered a deal.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/11/25/bnp.creditlyonnais/index.html   (612 words)

  
 Lyonnais, Léon II
Lyonnais (Bossu or Bossue, dit Lyonnais), Léon II.
He played piccolo in the Lyonnais orchestra and took part 26 Jan 1880 in a charity concert as an actor and a singer of 'comic songs.'
See also Pierre-Olivier Lyonnais (his great-uncle), Joseph Lyonnais (his father), Roch Lyonnais (his brother), and Cyrille-Roch Lyonnais (his nephew).
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003883   (105 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais & L.F. Rothschild Ready to Topple
Credit Lyonnais has long relied on two simple mechanisms to ensure its bloated growth: a ready supply of money-laundering deposits from the Cali cartel and similar sources, and financial infusions from the French government (which owns most of the bank) when all else fails.
Representative of this is Credit Lyonnais' financing of Giancarlo Parretti's purchase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Kirk Kerkorian in 1990 for $1.3 billion.
Credit Lyonnais is trying to finagle its books so it can announce a first-half "profit" on October 3, to prove to its benefactors their miracle cure has worked.
www.aci.net /kalliste/lyon.htm   (873 words)

  
 SAS | Customer Success: Credit Lyonnais
Crédit Lyonnais decided to look to SAS for solutions to help manage its broader marketing strategy in four major areas: data mining, attrition, prediction and direct marketing.
A priority for Crédit Lyonnais was to be able to identify customers with a high probability of leaving the group.
This will enable Crédit Lyonnais to make offers targeting each customer according to his or her preferred channel, and in particular on the Internet.
www.sas.com /success/creditlyonnais.html   (931 words)

  
 Lyonnais (Traditional province, France)
In the Vth century, Lyonnais was the center of the Kingdom of Burgundy, whose capital city was Vienne, located 30 km south of Lyon.
The province of Lyonnais was formed in 1531 by merging several feudal states, most of them having been confiscated to the Constable of Bourbon after he had betrayed King François I. Those states were Lyonnais sensu stricto, Beaujolais, Forez and Franc-Lyonnais.
After the confiscation, Lyonnais was used by the last Valois as an apanage and eventually incorporated to the royal domain by Louis XIII.
www.fotw.net /Flags/fr-lyon.html   (571 words)

  
 Whitings Writings - Paris Bistros - Aux Lyonnais
Aux Lyonnais is more modest in all respects: flavors are succulent but genteel, quantities ample but unagressive, and the cost lies between bistro-plus and Michelin-minus.
The Lyonnais is (1) the best Lyonnais restaurant in Paris; (2) one of the three best bistros in Paris; and (3) one of the dozen best restaurants of any category in Paris.
Under the name of that typical Lyonnais dish, hot sausage, you read 'In Lyonnais families, hot sausage is eaten with butter and boiled potatoes'....
www.whitings-writings.com /bistro_reviews/lyonnais.htm   (1407 words)

  
 CNN.com - Ex-Credit Lyonnais duo indicted - Dec. 18, 2003
Under the agreement, Credit Lyonnais and MAAF will plead guilty to three counts of making false statements to U.S. regulators and will each be placed on three years' probation.
Credit Lyonnais and the French government agency that rescued it after it later ran into financial trouble agreed to pay $575 million in fines.
Peyrelevade became head of Credit Lyonnais after the Executive Life purchase but denied reading a 1993 fax that would have alerted him to the illegal nature of the deal.
www.cnn.com /2003/BUSINESS/12/18/france.creditlyon.reut   (549 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais, Americas rolls out SunGard's AvantGard Tiger for Internet Cash Management
The system allows customers (including banks and corporates) of Credit Lyonnais, Americas to initiate a variety of international and domestic payments and provides access to their balances for accounts held with CLA and other financial institutions.
Credit Lyonnais is one of the leading French banks in the field of cash management.
In Western Europe, Credit Lyonnais has developed a range of value-added services enabling its customers to manage all their international and domestic electronic transactions from a single point of entry.
www.sungard.com /journalists/global/creditlyonnaisamericasrollsoutsungardsavantgardtigerforinternetcashmanagement.htm   (723 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais
Crdit Lyonnais had been constructing a financial timebomb for the French taxpayer since at least 1987, when the then newly appointed Haberer had developed a plan to grow the institution into a global banking powerhouse to rival Deutsche Bank and the major US investment banks.
The MGM fiasco is thought to have cost Crdit Lyonnais up to a billion dollars, and court cases and revelations surrounding the affair have dogged the bank for many years.
They insisted that Crdit Lyonnais should be prepared for privatisation, and entered into a long-running battle with the French government and the bank to try to establish the ground rules for the rescue of Crdit Lyonnais.
www.erisk.com /Learning/CaseStudies/CreditLyonnais.asp   (3012 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Credit Agricole offers to buy Credit Lyonnais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Last week, BNP Paribas said it wouldn't stand in the way of a friendly merger between its two rivals as long it was "acceptable" to Credit Lyonnais shareholders and its 40,000 workers.
Credit Agricole has been in talks toward a tie-up with Credit Lyonnais since Credit Lyonnais was privatized in mid-1999, but the negotiations fell apart over who would take top management slots in a merged bank.
Relations have thawed in recent weeks as senior management at Credit Lyonnais was faced with a choice between negotiating a merger deal with Credit Agricole or joining BNP Paribas.
www.usatoday.com /money/industries/banking/2002-12-16-french-banks_x.htm   (458 words)

  
 CNN.com - Agricole agrees $20bn Lyonnais bid - Dec. 16, 2002
Credit Lyonnais CEO Dominique Ferrero is set to become the operational second-in-command in the combined group under Agricole chief Jean Laurent.
Credit Lyonnais, which has a market capitalisation of about 18.4 billion euros and is seen as too small to continue on its own in the long term, held talks with Credit Agricole about a merger earlier this year before disagreements over the balance of power in a combined group scuppered a deal.
Credit Lyonnais has turned itself around since bad loans brought the bank close to bankruptcy and forced a costly government bailout in the mid-1990s.
edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/12/16/agricole/index.html   (585 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais, others plead guilty in Calif. case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Former Credit Lyonnais chairmen Jean Peyrelevade and Jean Yves Haberer were indicted on a range of charges, including conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to U.S. banking regulators, according to court documents.
Credit Lyonnais entered its plea before U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian to three counts related to the falsification of facts and documents filed with the Federal Reserve.
The CDR pleaded guilty to three counts of fraudulently concealing facts of the illegal acquisition of the failed insurer by the bank from the Federal Reserve between September of 1990 and August of 1995.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1062753/posts   (2131 words)

  
 USAO/CDCA Press Release
Other individuals associated with MAAF and Artemis have agreed to pay an additional $1.25 million, bringing the total settlement amount to $771.75 million – which is believed to be the largest settlement in a criminal case in United States history.
These secret portage agreements, and Credit Lyonnais’ resulting illegal control of the insurance business, remained concealed until the fraud came to light in the summer of 1998 when an anonymous whistleblower alerted California authorities of their existence.
He is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Bank Holding Company Act, criminal violation of the Bank Holding Company Act, and making false statements to the Federal Reserve, the United States Attorney's Office and the FBI during the government's investigation.
www.fbi.gov /dojpressrel/pressrel03/credit121803.htm   (1360 words)

  
 Former Lyonnais Chairman Under Fire - - CFO.com
The former chairman of Crédit Lyonnais is fighting charges that he lied to the U.S. Federal Reserve regarding the French bank's acquisition of failed U.S. insurer Executive Life, according to the Financial Times.
Jean Peyrelevade, who served as Lyonnais chairman from 1993 until his resignation in October, has appealed against the criminal charges of making false declarations about the acquisition of Executive Life in 1991 by a Lyonnais subsidiary.
Sanctions that would be imposed by the Fed include a fine of $500,000, a prohibition against working for a bank in the United States, and a three-year ban on entering the country.
www.cfo.com /article.cfm/3012089/c_3042511?f=TodayInFinance_Inside   (403 words)

  
 Lyonnais, France: Gastronomic Center of the World
Lyonnais cooks have always rejected the contention that onions play an overwhelming role in their cooking.
But even they acknowledge the importance of onions in such dishes as the gras-double, and it is a fact that as lunchtime approaches, the odor of onion predominates in the streets near the rue Edouard Herriot and in Le Vieux Lyon, areas with many restaurants.
In the neighboring province of the Bourbonnais, where the potato is also abundant and important in the diet of poor people, there is a potato dish called le pate de pommes de terre, which is known in the Lyonnais as pommes de terre a la pate.
tgcmagazine.com /articles/265.shtml   (1940 words)

  
 Crédit Lyonnais and SunGard Join Forces to Provide Straight-through Processing through SunGard’s AvantGard
Using AvantGard-ETX, Credit Lyonnais is able to seamlessly connect to a network of member financial institutions for straight-through processing of transactions and a holistic view of global cash positions.
With AvantGard-ETX, Crédit Lyonnais can offer its clients that are participants of AvantGard-ETX access to their financial information, integrated in real time with their treasury management software, helping them to optimize their liquidity position.
Crédit Lyonnais is a global domestic banking services provider, notably proposing state-of-the-art corporate transactional product and services through an extensive nationwide network of branches.
www.sungard.com /journalists/global/credit_lyonnais_and_sungard_join_forces_to_provide_straightthrough_processing_through_sungards_avant.htm   (703 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais Jobs: Vault Jobs & Employment Profiles
The company survived the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, but after the siege of Paris by the Prussians in the winter of 1870, Germain felt Credit Lyonnais could benefit from more geographical diversity; a London office was promptly set up.
At the same time, Credit Lyonnais began expanding into different industries, operating as a merchant bank that invested in promising busines......
Credit Lyonnais employee surveys are collected by Vault editors, Vault Gold Surveys provide detailed information on jobs and employment at specific employers.
www.vault.com /jobs-company/Credit-Lyonnais.html   (221 words)

  
 BBC News | BUSINESS | Credit Lyonnais probe widens
The US financial authorities are considering prosecuting French bank Credit Lyonnais for conspiracy and money laundering, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Altus, the Credit Lyonnais subsidiary that bought Executive Life junk bond portfolio, was prohibited from buying a stake in the US insurer.
Their lawyers argue that since Credit Lyonnais was bailed out in 1995, it would be futile to bring charges now.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/1528449.stm   (466 words)

  
 Crédit Lyonnais shares suspended - Jun. 14, 1999
     The suspension comes as Lyonnais braces for a long-anticipated stock market debut on July 8 - although roughly 10 percent of Lyonnais stock is already in the public domain in the form of the investment certificates, which carry no voting privileges.
The public sale values Crédit Lyonnais at 41.2 to 48 billion francs ($6.59 to $7.67 billion).
     A so-called "blocking minority" of 33 percent of the Lyonnais share capital is being divvied up among a group of seven core shareholders, who will each hold 1 to 10 percent stakes in Lyonnais.
money.cnn.com /1999/06/14/europe/lyonnais   (564 words)

  
 BW Online | July 30, 2001 | The Sword over Lyonnais
The embattled chairman of France's Crédit Lyonnais is fighting for his bank's very independence: The expiration in early July of a pact among core shareholders leaves the Paris institution and its $162 billion in deposits vulnerable to a takeover.
For all his efforts to help Crédit Lyonnais recover from its history of mismanagement, the bank is at the epicenter of a scandal that won't go away, the legacy of a fateful purchase of California's failed Executive Life Insurance Co. in the early 1990s.
Crédit Lyonnais was on the verge of bankruptcy, and we had to find billions to prop up the bank.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_31/b3743143.htm   (1162 words)

  
 Lyonnais B & B - Paris
Clients have access to living room where breakfast is served in morning.
It is a very private part of an apartment in the 5th; rue des Lyonnais; on
Lyonnais seems more like a bed and breakfast.
www.frenchhomerentals.com /paris/lyonnais.htm   (263 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Credit Lyonnais faces huge fine
French bank Credit Lyonnais has agreed to pay $100m to settle charges that it illegally bought a US insurance firm twelve years ago.
Prosecutors allege that Lyonnais used front companies to buy California-based insurer Executive Life in an attempt at getting round laws barring banks and foreign governments from owning more than 25% of US insurance firms.
Credit Lyonnais was partly owned by the French government at the time of the acquisition.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3329763.stm   (287 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais Securities (USA) Inc. Selects StarMine To Objectively Measure Research Analyst Performance Market Wire ...
Credit Lyonnais Securities (USA) Inc. announced today that it has adopted StarMine Monitor as a tool to assist in the internal evaluation of research analyst performance.
Credit Lyonnais Securities (USA) Inc. uses StarMine Monitor, a Web-based service, to assist in the tracking of analyst performance with an eye towards utilizing the results as a component of analyst compensation.
Credit Lyonnais is a full-service worldwide financial institution with representation in about 60 countries, 4,600 offices worldwide and more than 40,000 professionals serving clients in every corner of the globe with a broad range of services and products.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200206/ai_mark02043002   (649 words)

  
 Crédit Lyonnais Selects Serena Software For Corporate Software Change Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Crédit Lyonnais implemented Serena ChangeMan™ for z/OS and OS/390, the company's premiere software change manager, to improve the effectiveness, time to market, and responsiveness of service delivery to business users and bank customers.
Crédit Lyonnais' primary challenge was to achieve consistent and repeatable levels of quality, ensuring numerous and in-depth testing combined with the quick implementation of new software to meet all audit and security criteria.
Crédit Lyonnais chose Serena ChangeMan for z/OS and OS/390 as the best answer to solve the technical challenge of automating all activities needed to deliver and install software changes.
www.serenainternational.com /News/PR/sPR_07162001.asp   (449 words)

  
 Ex-Credit Lyonnais chairman pleads guilty - Boston.com
Former Credit Lyonnais chairman Jean Peyrelevade has pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from the French bank's purchase of failed insurer Executive Life.
LOS ANGELES --Former Credit Lyonnais chairman Jean Peyrelevade has pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from the French bank's purchase of failed insurer Executive Life.
In 1999, the state Department of Insurance sued the French investors, claiming they had conspired to give Credit Lyonnais control over all of Executive Life's assets, which violated California law at the time prohibiting foreign governments from owning insurers in the state.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2006/01/20/ex_credit_lyonnais_chairman_pleads_guilty   (496 words)

  
 Credit Lyonnais expands presence in Brazil - Special Advertising Feature Latin Trade - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 2001, Credit Lyonnais' executive committee decided to expand the bank's role in Brazil, and acquired Banco AGF Braseg in December.
Credit Lyonnais is the lead bank for TAM's Airbus financing and arranged, for example, a $114 million export credit lease for four A319-100s for the Brazilian air carrier.
Credit Lyonnais is a full-service worldwide financial institution with assets of approximately US$175 billion and operations in more than 60 countries.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_4_10/ai_85236759   (620 words)

  
 Crédit Lyonnais certificates slide - Jun. 15, 1999
LONDON (CNNfn) - Investment certificates of Crédit Lyonnais, which represent the 10 percent of the privatizing French bank already in the public domain, dipped nearly five percent at the Paris open Tuesday as investors reacted to the French state's terms for converting them into new voting stock.
Of those, Lyonnais employees will have the option to buy 13 million shares.
     Under the Lyonnais privatization, the French government is selling a 33 percent stake to seven core shareholders who will each hold stakes of between one and 10 percent in the bank.
money.cnn.com /1999/06/15/europe/lyonnais   (581 words)

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