Groupe BPCE, a major partner of the World Impact Summit

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

On February 5 and 6, Groupe BPCE will participate in the World Impact Summit, an essential event bringing together economic, political, institutional and non-profit players to discuss major societal and environmental issues.

 For Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking player in France, the 4th largest player in Europe, and present in 56 countries around the world, this participation is an obvious choice. It resonates with our ambition to make impact accessible to all by relying on our territorial cooperative model and on our businesses and expertise to offer solutions as close as possible to needs

Alongside our clients, we raise awareness, advise them and provide global and financing solutions thanks to a detailed understanding of the issues specific to each and each territory.

For our corporate clients, from SMEs to the largest international companies, our priority is to help them integrate environmental and social issues into their business models. We support them by offering them a dedicated dialogue according to their size, their economic sector and the territory where they work in order to help them understand the issues at stake, and the implementation of action plans.

We also promote the emergence of new solutions and support their implementation: from the energy renovation of individual homes and condominiums by the Banques Populaires and the Caisses d’Epargne to the issuance of green financing instruments by Natixis CIB, we provide solutions – credits, leasing or green bonds – adapted to each type of individual customer,  company, community or investor, by relying on the strength of our networks and expertise. We also focus investment on sustainability issues, drawing on the expertise of Natixis IM and BPCE Assurances, through which we offer and distribute a range of responsible investment products.

Our approach, based on pragmatism and realism, is guided by three principles of action:

  • act consciously. Because to act, we must first understand what is at stake, we base our approach on the achievements of science that inform our understanding, help structure our action, and nourish our ability to innovate alongside our customers and partners.
  • act in numbers. Meeting the challenges of transitions requires organizing collaborations, which is why we rely on our cooperative model to federate stakeholders.
  • act as closely as possible to needs. Because impact is built on the ground, our intimate knowledge of the challenges of the territories and regions of the world where we are present allows us to understand the local specificities. Our organisation allows us to decide and act as closely as possible to the territories and the needs of our clients by providing expertise and tools to raise awareness and support the challenges of energy transition and adaptation to climate change and the erosion of biodiversity.

The World Impact Summit is a privileged opportunity to exchange, share our convictions and co-construct the solutions of tomorrow.

The program of our interventions:

  • SUMMIT OPENING SEQUENCE | 5/02 between 9:25 am – 10:10 am ; “Building a desirable and accessible ecological transition” ; round table with Valérie Combes-Santonja, Head of Impact at Groupe BPCE.
  • KEYNOTE | on 5/02 between 11.20 and 11.35 ; by Philippe Zaouati, Managing Director MIROVA.
  • NATIONAL PLENARY AND TERRITORIES | on 6/02 between 12:15 and 12:50 ; “Accelerating the transition of economic actors at the heart of the territories: what levers for action in a complex context?  ; round table in the presence of: Déborah Cherruault, Member of the Management Board, in charge of the Regional Development Bank – Caisse d’Epargne Aquitaine Poitou-Charentes, Frédérique Deveze, Director of Territorial Expertise – Banque Populaire Val de France and Grégoire CHAUVIERE LE DRIAN, Head of EIB Group Office in France chez European Investment Bank (EIB).

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