Banking
Statutory Notice: Your home is at risk if you do not keep up payments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it. Be sure you can afford the repayments before entering into any credit agreement. The sterling equivalent of your liability under a foreign currency mortgage may be increased by exchange rate movements.
Crédit Agricole
53 Regional Banks and 7,971 Branches throughout France. Part of a large international banking group, details of the Group and its operations can be found at the Crédit Agricole Indosuez web site at http://www.indosuez.com/webcai/fr/index.html
Crédit Agricole's banking services can be searched from its separate web site http://www.credit-agricole.fr/
Clicking on the link "websites" takes you to a search page where there are links to individual branches. Internet access to accounts can be arranged. The service is available from a number of French branches. To establish whether the bank in your area has this service merely click on the demonstration icon on the Crédit Agricole web site and the click on the "disponibilité régionale" icon
Service in English
Caen Branch advertise 'a global banking service in English'. Services include opening a bank account; French property finance; property insurance; savings and investments; full broking service for the Paris 'Bourse' On-line banking and share dealing.'
Telephone: 0033 (0) 2 31 55 62 00 Fax: 0033 (0) 2 31 55 63 99 Email: vincent.gray@ca-calvados.fr
Banque Woolwich
Expatriate and Non-Resident Service
Banque Woolwich provides a full range of French Franc mortgages and associated services, together with a specialist, English-speaking staff. In fact everything necessary to offer you an easy and secure way to get more out of France.
Telephone: 0033 (0) 1 42 68 42 20 or on the Internet at http://www.banquewoolwich.fr/wool.asp
Banque Woolwich is a wholly owned subsidiary of Woolwich plc now owned by Barclays Bank plc
Groupe Banques Populaires
30 Regional Banks and 1,800 Agencies throughout France
The web site at http://www.banquepopulaire.fr/ includes a search faculty to give you a list of the bank's agents throughout France