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PRESENTATION OF CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CIB 1 2010 HIGHLIGHTSIn 2010, the recovery process continued in a world divided into twoparts: on the one side emerging countries with their renewed dynamicof accelerated catch-up and on the other developed countriescarrying on at their slow pace due to debt problems in the euro zoneand the risk of slipping back into recession in the United States.At the same time, 2010 was a year for the implementation of andtransition to new regulations in particular concerning liquidity andcapital, which left for the future the answers to a number of questionsregarding the constraints that would be applied to banks.In this uncertain context, Crédit Agricole Corporate and InvestmentBank successfully concluded the refocusing and development planput into place in 2008 and succeeded in demonstrating its ability toproduce recurrent earnings with a balanced risk profi le.In terms of its earnings, Crédit Agricole Corporate and InvestmentBank fulfi lled its commitments both with regard to the discontinuingactivities, thanks to rigorous management and a signifi cant reductionin its risk profi le, and with regard to its ongoing activities thanksto the confi rmation of a base of recurrent earnings of more thanEUR 1 billion.Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank now appears tobe fully refocused on its recognised strengths, solidly based with areduced risk profi le and confi rmed as a business key to serving theclients of the Crédit Agricole Group.SHELF-REGISTRATION DOCUMENT CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CIB 2010 11