DECRYPTION – The young boss of Natixis succeeds Laurent Mignon as chairman of the management board of the banking group.
A new era is dawning at BPCE. The supervisory board of the mutualist group (Banques Populaires, Caisses d’Epargne, Crédit Coopératif, Banque Palatine, etc.) chose Friday Laurent Mignon’s successor. It was Nicolas Namias, the boss of Natixis, who won the unanimous vote to become the third chairman of the management board of BPCE, born in 2009 from the marriage of the Caisses d’épargne and the Banques Populaires.
He was preferred over Daniel Karoytis. Very fast, the internal selection process lasted only six weeks, after Laurent Mignon announced his departure to take the helm of the investment company Wendel.
Solution of continuity
The appointment of Nicolas Namias, who will take office on December 3 in the new Duo towers in Paris, the head office of BPCE, appears to be a solution to continuity. Like him, Laurent Mignon had led Natixis before taking the reins in 2018 of the central body of the second French banking group behind Crédit Agricole (by its market shares…
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