EPIC Epic commonly refers to: * Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation * Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements Epic or EPIC may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and medi ...

BPI-Groupe (BPI is the acronym of ''Banque Publique d'Investissement'') is a French government agency, previously known as EPIC OSEO. In 2013, the French government reorganized their sovereign funds. OSEO's subsidiary,

OSEO S.A. EPIC BPI-Groupe (BPI is the acronym of ''Banque Publique d'Investissement'') is a French government agency, previously known as EPIC OSEO. In 2013, the French government reorganized their sovereign funds. OSEO's subsidiary, OSEO S.A., was merged ...

, was merged with

Fonds stratégique d'investissement ''Banque publique d'investissement'' (literally ''renchPublic Investment Bank'', also known as Bpifrance, BPI Groupe S.A.) is a French public investment bank. It is a joint venture of two public entities: the Caisse des dépôts et consignation ...

and

Caisse des dépôts et consignations The Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC; ) is a French public sector financial institution created in 1816, and part of the government institutions under the control of the Parliament. Often described as the "investment arm" of the French ...

CDC Entreprises The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgi ...

to form Banque Publique d'Investissement S.A. (BPI, or Bpifrance).

History

EPIC OSEO was formed in 2005 by the merger of Agence nationale de valorisation de la recherche, the BDPME ( Banque du Développement des PME) and BDPME's subsidiary Sofaris (

Société française de garantie des financements des PME Lactalis is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier SA. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the se ...

). In 2008,

Agence de l'innovation industrielle The Agence de l'innovation industrielle was a French governmental agency created in 2005 to support technological projects. As of 2006, it was supporting seven projects: *BioHub, a chemistry projects to create products with cereals, without using ...

was absorbed. In 2010 the subsidiaries of OSEO, OSEO Innovation, OSEO Financement and OSEO Garantie were merged to form

In 2012–13 OSEO S.A. was merged with

and

to form Banque Publique d'Investissement S.A. (BPI or Bpifrance). At the same time EPIC OESO was renamed to EPIC BPI-Groupe (literally ''Public entity for Industrial and Commercial, Public Investment Bank Group'')

References

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