Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations

Caisse des Dépôts, also referred to as CDC, is a French public institution with a history dating to 1816. Its official history says it was created in April of that year during a financial crisis and a period of public distrust in institutions. The government entrusted it with managing private funds and placed it under the protection and oversight of Parliament, with the stated initial objective of restoring public confidence. The institution describes its contemporary role as part of France’s leading public financial hub and as a long-term investor serving the public interest and the country’s economic development. The organisation now presents itself together with its subsidiaries as Groupe Caisse des Dépôts, a diversified public group. According to its history page, the group carries out public-interest missions in support of public policies conducted by the State and local authorities, while it may also conduct competitive activities. Its homepage characterises the group as an alliance of public and private economic actors working across France’s regions to accelerate ecological transformation and contribute to a better quality of life. The stated group commitments include accelerating ecological transformation, contributing to social and territorial cohesion, and strengthening sovereignty. The official website’s services directory illustrates the breadth of activities and public-facing services associated with the group. It lists online access to Mon Compte Formation, consignments, Ciclade for inactive accounts and life-insurance policies, Mon Parcours Handicap, Ma Retraite Publique, PEP’s for public employers, online banking, SOLTéA for the apprenticeship-tax balance, Mon Passeport Prévention, and the group’s open-data platform. The directory also points to the Banque des Territoires and to information about social policies. These offerings span financial, administrative, social-protection, and territorial-development services; the available evidence does not establish that every listed service is directly operated by the central institution rather than a group entity. The institution’s official account of its development describes successive adaptations to national needs, including popular savings, local public-sector development, social protection, pensions and provident schemes, post-war reconstruction, urban planning, housing, and city policy. In recent years, it says, its work has also adapted to a financialised and globalised but fragmented world facing climate urgency. The group currently frames long-term investment and support for ecological transformation as central to its contribution. The supplied sources do not identify a founder, named executive, headquarters address, or a specific ownership or stock-market status.

Caisse des Dépôts was established in April 1816. Its official history places the creation in the aftermath of Napoleon’s fall, when France faced a serious financial crisis and savers had little confidence in institutions. The government created the institution and entrusted it with the management of private funds. To guard against executive control of those resources, it placed the new establishment under the protection and supervision of Parliament. Its first stated purpose was to restore “public confidence.” Over more than two centuries, the institution says it has repeatedly developed and adapted in response to the country’s needs. Its historical account names popular savings and the development of the local public sector among the fields addressed during its evolution. It also describes a role in social protection, pensions and provident schemes, post-war reconstruction, urban planning, housing, and city policy. The official account presents this evolution as a characteristic of a model that has continued to adjust as national priorities and circumstances changed. In describing the present-day organisation, the history page calls Caisse des Dépôts, together with its entities, a diversified group. It says the group fulfils public-interest missions in support of public policies conducted by the State and local authorities, while also being able to conduct competitive activities. The group’s homepage further describes it as an alliance of public and private economic actors working in France’s regions. It presents ecological transformation, social and territorial cohesion, and sovereignty as key commitments, and frames the group as a long-term investor serving the public interest and the country’s economic development. The official account identifies adaptation to a financialised and globalised but fragmented world, and to climate urgency, as part of the institution’s more recent context. The current website also makes a range of services accessible through its service directory, including consignments, Ciclade for inactive accounts and life-insurance policies, public-retirement and social services, platforms for public employers and apprenticeship-tax administration, online banking, and open data. The directory also links to Banque des Territoires. These examples show the breadth of the contemporary group’s public-facing activity, but the supplied material does not specify the operating entity responsible for each service. The supplied official pages establish the institution’s origin, its parliamentary safeguards at creation, its broad historical areas of activity, and its present public-group positioning. They do not name its founder or current executives, give a headquarters address, or specify an ownership classification or listing status.

• 1816

  Caisse des Dépôts is established

A public, long-term investor and diversified group positioned around public-interest missions, support for public policy, economic development, and ecological transformation.

• Consignments

  A service listed on the official services and contacts page.

• Ciclade

  The official services page describes it as a service for inactive accounts and life-insurance policies.

• Mon Compte Formation

  An online service listed in the official services directory.

• Ma Retraite Publique

  A public-retirement service listed in the official services directory.

• PEP’s

  The official page identifies it as a platform for public employers.

• SOLTéA

  The official page identifies it as a platform for the apprenticeship-tax balance.

• Mon Passeport Prévention

  An online service listed in the official services directory.

• Banque des Territoires

  The official site provides a link to Banque des Territoires and lists it among the group’s areas of information and contact.

• Parliamentary protection and supervision at establishmentOther

1. 1Groupe Caisse des Dépôts official homepagecaissedesdepots.fr
2. 2Nos services et contactscaissedesdepots.fr
3. 3Notre histoirecaissedesdepots.fr
4. 4Politique de vote et principes de gouvernement des entreprises cotéescaissedesdepots.fr