50 to 1 euro and small society must be round back

Société Générale, they were probably not very many to gamble on the transfer of Vincent wireworm of Boursorama Northern credit. Two institutions controlled by the Bank of defence, but the very opposite of the other. Shaped by Vincent Taupin, Boursorama is a shoot of just 15 years, both the brokerage firm online financial information archipopulaire site and store remote that can claim the title of "cheaper to France". Northern credit is a Bank of proximity to the former, with its 780 agencies and its head of boulevard Haussmann, federating 7 establishments regional bank Courtois, who claims it, the title of... Dean of French banks (250 spring). "There is room in France for different models of banks." "Boursorama and the credit of the North, each on a well identified customer segment, are legitimate and efficient," assures Vincent Taupin.

This wide gap should in any case change the habits of the Parisien of fifty years, rather explosive in the universe of French bankers. Engineer training - he is a graduate of the special school of public works (ESTP) and the higher national school of telecommunications (ENST)-, Vincent Taupin worked first as a consultant and then as a trader in the options markets. These are the good years: "Wall Street", the famous Oliver Stone film, triumph of box-office... and in the minds. "The financial markets at the time, it was an extremely exciting world... which is done very quickly."

Decisive intuitions

Between 1990 and 1994, our man occupied various executive positions in subsidiaries of the CIC group, before joining Société Générale and his brokerage firm Fimat. He then can't imagine the route ahead, happy coincidences and intuitions decisive estate. Thus, when in 1996 he toggles 300 clients Fimat Minitel to the Internet, there is no doubt that Fimatex will be valued 700 million euros four years later, more than 30 times its turnover, in an introduction on the stock market more than 50 times sursoucrite! And he imagines no doubt any more that this day of March 2000 coincided with the peak of the bubble of the "dot". A year later, the bubble burst, the course of Fimatex fell from 26.50 to 1 euro, and small society must be round back.

But waves did not frighten this passion for course-croisière, whose home port is in La Baule. Clamping bolts, divestments and restructuring are in the program in 2001. This will save the company, which will emerge from the crisis in many better shape than its major competitors. Fimatex will then buy the website Boursorama Online, she adopted the name to take advantage of its immense reputation to attract new customers, and Selftrade, the first company founded by Charles Beigbeder. Then launch online life insurance successfully, the redemption of CaixaBank France and the development of a range complete banking products.

"All other French banks are happening on the Internet;" It is the recognition of the fact that it was not wrong. I am in Boursorama since the creation, I knew it all, I have an opinion on everything and I am satisfied that the company now needs new blood. "I will live to the credit of the thing another North, a story that I do not know by heart," slip Vincent Wireworms, which will take his duties as Director-General on January 1.