Banque Palatine was originally founded in 1780 in Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 (France), and is therefore one of the oldest French bank still being run. It is today a full branch subsidiary of the mutual group BPCE

BPCE

Groupe BPCE is France's second largest bank, formed by the 2009 merger of CNCE and BFBP , has more than 8,200 branches nationwide under their respective brand names serving nearly 40 million customers...

. Its core businesses are retail banking with SMEs, private banking and asset management. Its headquarter is located Paris downtown, in the la Madeleine neighbourhood.

Its long term debt rating is A+ (Fitch) and Aa3 (Moody's).