Jean-Claude Trichet has been in office since 2003, following his role as Governor of the Bank of France.
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The proposals in the Bank of France's symposium have two broad thrusts.
Jean-Claude Trichet, currently the governor of the Bank of France, was meant to be a shoo-in following a back-door deal in 1998.
But France's president, Jacques Chirac, has stridently refused to back away from his candidate, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France.
Roughly 66pc is held at the New York Federal Reserve, 21pc at the Bank of England, and 8pc at the Bank of France.
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French banks, which were still very active in Vietnam, tended to be the recipients of the money, which flowed to the Bank of France.
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But for want of a reason to object, the Bank of France (on March 29th) and all other regulators have now cleared the bid.
Mr Trichet, as governor of the Bank of France, has done much the same, preaching to Mr Chirac's past displeasure the virtues of the franc fort.
"The outlook for activity remains favourable for the coming months, " a Bank of France spokesperson said, adding that the automotive industry remained a problem area.
This week, in a speech coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the Bank of France, Mr Fabius was, in a way, as provocative as Mr Fischer.
The other big central bank within the euro area, the Bank of France, also said Non when asked for the salary of its governor, Jean-Claude Trichet.
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On Tuesday, the EU finance ministers agreed that Mr Duisenberg will step down on November 1st and be succeeded by Jean-Claude Trichet, the governor of the Bank of France.
The next big step, in 1993, was to grant the Bank of France independence to set its own interest rates, at which time Mr Trichet moved across to become its governor.
But it would presumably be torn up if the gold price rose sharply: the Bank of France said this month that it wants to offload some 500 tonnes over the next five years.
With a Gallic esprit that irritated its allies to distraction, France has nominated Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the Bank of France, to lead the new central bank Europe requires when the single currency is launched.
As the Bank of France pointed out, the bonus plan complies with rules introduced in February at the behest of Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, to ensure that the structure of bankers' compensation does not encourage excessive risk-taking.
Reasonably enough, the Bank of France's managers argue that the restructuring, which the unions fear will cost hundreds of jobs, is in order because new technology and banks' changing practices mean fewer tills are needed than in the past.
Christian Noyer, the governor of the Bank of France, echoed those concerns last week, warning that the tax risked "destroying entire segments of our financial industry" as well as having "highly counterproductive effects on government borrowing and the financing of the economy" if it wasn't designed carefully.
This was discussed yet again in the margins of the EcoFin meeting in Luxembourg on April 21st inconclusively, however, since France insists on maintaining its candidate, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France, while the other countries prefer Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch president of the central bank's forerunner, the European Monetary Institute.
From January, rates in Ireland will be set from Frankfurt, by the European Central Bank, with the needs of France and Germany mainly in mind.
Boosting its retail banking business in Europe, Deutsche Bank will buy the banking operations of France's Banque Worms for an undisclosed sum.
Between 1991 and 1997, the number of bank branches and staff in France and Germany barely budged even as banks merged, according to research by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an American bank.
Rolf Breuer, chairman of mighty Deutsche Bank, has resorted to opening a small chain of banks in France, because the French government has told him it would not welcome a bid for one of the big banks.
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Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of France's central bank, is the most plausible.
It was signed by some of France's most high-profile chief executives, including Christophe de Margerie of oil firm Total, Frederic Oudea of bank Societe Generale, and Air France's Jean-Cyril Spinetta.
Credit Agricole is controlled by 39 French regional banks, The company expanded rapidly before the financial crisis, including in southern European through the acquisition of France's Credit Lyonnais bank.
But the man who had been expected to succeed him, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the French central bank, is caught up in a trial relating to the collapse of one of France's largest banks.
It is an open secret that, before turning to the domestic courtship of Dresdner, Deutsche Bank tried to buy in France and Italy, only to be rebuffed by nationalistically minded governments.
The bank employs some 60, 000 people in France, out of a global workforce of about 154, 000.
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