Banque Louis-Dreyfus

It was created in 1905 by commodities trader and financier Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, and eventually purchased in two stages in 1978 and 1989 by Bank Brussels Lambert (BBL), later part of ING.

At the time, it was France's tenth-largest investment bank by assets, ahead of the Banque Rothschild.

[1] in 1974, the Louis-Dreyfus group, including the bank, relocated form central Paris to a modern building at 87, avenue de la Grande-Armée on Porte Maillot, designed by architect Pierre Dufau and nicknamed the "blue diamond" (French: le diamant bleu) for its then-unusual blue-tinted curtain walls.

[6] The Louis-Dreyfus Company created another bank, branded LD Finance, in 1994,[7] but sold a controlling stake in it in 1998.

[6] The bank's first head office on Place des Petits-Pères was later acquired by the French Ministry of Culture.