Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes

Activities

For more than 125 years, Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes has been providing its clientele of private individuals, artisans, small retailers, farmers, self-employed professionals, and business organizations with the support of its expertise in banking and insurance. The corporate purpose of this regional cooperative bank (whose capital is owned by its 350,000 cooperative shareholders),  defined as “to build a sustainable and responsible future alongside the women and men who live and work in the region,” informs its choices for the future, and defines what motivates its teams in their day-to-day work.

With its 3,200 employees, it now serves nearly 1 million clients throughout the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and in the Hautes-Alpes, Alpes de Haute-Provence, and Corrèze départements. Active in the fields of new business creation and transmission, it boasts a comprehensive range of specialized business lines and highly sophisticated offerings enabling it to provide a service that combines expertise with a strong local presence. A bank capable of innovation when it accompanies its customers in the realization of their most ambitious dreams, it never loses sight of what is most important: the quality of the personal relationship developed between a project initiator and his or her advisor. 

In 2020 Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes, a socially responsible financial institution attuned to the major challenges of the present day, launched Banque de la Transition Énergétique, a bank entirely dedicated to collecting green savings and pursuing financing initiatives in favor of the energy and environmental transition at a regional level. The bank owes its distinctive quality to four powerful commitments: the traceability of savings, action taken at a regional or local level, short-circuit financing, and a partnership-based approach.

Sport & Patronage

Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes and the mountain economy: sharing the same heritage and the same values. A true partner to the world of snow, Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes, familiarly known as the “Bank of Skiing and the Mountain,” has forged long-lasting ties with the mountain ecosystem. This relationship of trust with the major players in the mountain industry (the ESF French school of skiing, ski lifts, ski committees, local players, etc.) is intimately tied up with BPAURA’s commitment founded on the management of its activities at a local level and the perfect understanding of its teams of more than 250 employees at the service of their customers and economic agents.

As a Premium Partner of the Olympic & Paralympic Games Paris 2024 and Official Sponsor of the Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Torch Relays, Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes supports all those committed to the popular, sporting, and economic success of this unique event.

Finally, the Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes Corporate Foundation, set up in 2020 to support the bank’s corporate purpose and promote its cooperative and social solidarity values, plays its role to the full. Since its creation, the Foundation has provided almost €2.3 million in financial support and assistance to more than 270 projects and initiatives pursued by general interest associations active in its catchment area in four main areas: culture, education, health, and social integration.

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