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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
You can get a taste of France without breaking the bank in Quebec.
If reports of a sale by the Financial Times and news agencies are correct, it would be the biggest bullion sale by a eurozone central bank since France sold 17.4 tonnes in the first half of 2009.
The Dutch then nationalised their bits of the bank and the Belgians (and Luxembourgeois) agreed to sell France's BNP Paribas the businesses that Fortis had on their soil.
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.
The chairman of the French central bank, Christian Noyer, has said ratings agencies should downgrade the UK before France because its economy is weaker.
On the short list of likely bidders for the 158-year-old investment bank are Britain's Barclays, France's BNP Paribas, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Charlotte, N.
In early 1999, Mr Flowers left for Japan on a hunch that this was where the biggest opportunities existed he had seen the tremendous amounts of money made by investors out of government-assisted bank bail-outs in Sweden, France and, especially, the United States.
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