LCL S.A.

LCL S.A. is a major French financial services company, with its registered office in Lyon, France and its administrative head office in Paris, France. "LCL" is an abbreviation which means Le Crédit Lyonnais, the former name of the bank. Since 2003, LCL is owned by Crédit Agricole but still operates as a separate entity in all of France.
It serves about 6 million customers in 2000 branches in France (2005).
Controversy.
In 2010 the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven French banks, including LCL S.A., the sum of 384,900,000 euros for colluding to charge unjustified fees on check processing, especially for extra fees charged during the transition from paper check transfer to "Exchanges Check-Image" electronic transfer.