Crédit Agricole S.A.

Crédit Agricole S.A. is a French banking company headquartered in Montrouge, near Paris. Its shares trade on Euronext Paris under the ticker ACA, and the company is included in the CAC 40 index. The group's roots lie in mutual credit organizations set up to provide credit to farmers.

The Crédit Agricole Group heads a network of regional cooperative banks (Caisses régionales); Crédit Agricole S.A. is the listed company of this structure, and the regional banks are its main shareholders. Activities are grouped into retail banking in France (the regional banks and LCL), insurance, asset management (Amundi), corporate and investment banking for large companies (Crédit Agricole CIB), consumer finance and leasing. The group also does banking in Italy and other European countries.

Those following Crédit Agricole stock typically watch the effect of interest rate policy on net interest margin, the cost of credit risk, insurance and asset management income, and banking regulation. On the ACA.PA page at Lzzo.com, the price is shown in euros, the currency it trades in, and the page includes a historical price chart, technical indicators and the data source.