It consisted of the following banks: Crédit du Nord is fully owned by Société Générale.

In the following years several regional French banks were brought in the group while retaining their names.

[1] In 1997, the whole Crédit du Nord network with the associated banks was acquired by Société Générale from Paribas.

[citation needed] The customer-facing SG Crédit du Nord (SG meaning Société Générale) brand[2] is applied to both the former Crédit du Nord, and the Société Générale branches in the North of France.

[3] As with SG Crédit du Nord, the remaining Crédit du Nord banks' identities are also applied as regional brand names: In 2010, the French government's Autorité de la concurrence (the department in charge of regulating competition) fined eleven banks, including Crédit du Nord, the sum of €384,900,000 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.