Hint: French corporate and investment bank
Answer: Natixis
Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created on 2006-11-17 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire (Banque Populaire group) and IXIS (Caisse d'Epargne group).
The two main shareholders, Groupe Caisses d'Epargne and Banque Populaire, together own more than 70% of Natixis while the remaining float is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
On December 15, 2008, Natixis revealed that it had lost more than US$450 million in the Madoff investment scandal on Wall Street—the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
Natixis provide financial data for the 'Markets' section on the news channel, Euronews.