FRANSABANK is the heiress in the direct line of one of the first banks established in Lebanon: the Crédit Foncier d'Algérie et de Tunisie which opened a branch in Beirut in 1921. Over the decades, the bank has transformed into a banking and financial group with around ten subsidiaries specializing in retail banking, project studies, financing structuring, investment banking, leasing, bancassurance and real estate. The FRANSABANK group is now present in Lebanon, France, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Algeria.