Since 2008, Crédit Agricole has made a virtue of being more cautious than peers in its corporate and investment banking capital markets businesses, especially equity derivatives. It is therefore ironic that the chief executive of Crédit Agricole CIB, Jacques Ripoll, first came to prominence in the equity derivatives department at Societe Generale in the mid 2000s – when that business, and that bank, were enjoying success.
Despite this, Ripoll’s background has given him an appreciation of just how much things have changed in capital markets because of conduct and prudential regulations.
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