The European Investment Bank (EIB) has just granted a €5mn loan to CDC Biodiversité. The opportunity to activate for the first time in France its Natural Capital Financing Facility. This European programme has been allocated €...
On 2 May, Raphaëlle Koetschet, head of a team of private equity managers at Caisse des Dépôts, was named by Private Equity International, the world's leading magazine in the sector, as one of the 40 most promising young...
While the IPBES (Intergovernmental Scientific and Political Platform) has just published an alarming report on the state of biodiversity in the world and calls for transformative change, Caisse des Dépôts is working to limit its...
On 17 May in the framework of the Interministerial Committee on Tourism (CIT), Eric Lombard, Chief Executive Officer of Caisse des Dépôts, officially announced the creation of the Tourism and Heritage engineering fund led by...
On 15 May, West Energies and Banque des Territoires signed the acquisition of the largest photovoltaic farm in Normandy, for a total amount of €12.3mn: Les Terres Neuves, located in Saint-Etienne-sous Bailleul and La Chapelle-...
On 14 May, Société Forestière, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts, and Fédération nationale des Safer* presented the 2019 Forest Market Indicator for France. The average price of undeveloped forests is rising, as are the number of...
On 13 May, Bpifrance and the European Investment Fund (EIF), a subsidiary of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, signed a 4th financial guarantee agreement between the two institutions: the EIF will guarantee 50% of the new...
On 13 May, Caisse des Dépôts, EDF, Engie and La Poste* announced the launch of Archipels, a partnership that will enable them to develop a blockchain infrastructure for the provision of digital trust services, such as document...
Banque des Territoires intends to support massively the social housing sector over the period 2018-2023. On May 9 at a press conference, Olivier Sichel, Director of Banque des Territoires, itemized the actions of Housing Plan #2...
On 24 April, Meridiam, Européenne de Biomasse and Banques des Territoires officially launched the construction of the first production unit for HPCI® black pellet, a new generation biofuel. The 3 partners hold 80.5%, 5% and 14.5...
The Transdev Group has won the contract to operate and maintain the Fairfax County bus network in Virginia (United States), Fairfax Connector, for a value of about €400mn. It will operate it from 1 July for 5 years*. Furthermore...
At the 7th plenary session of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in France, Virginie Chapron-du Jeu, Chief Financial Officer of the Caisse des Dépôts group, and Marc Abadie, President of...
