Société Marseillaise de Crédit

The Société Marseillaise de Crédit was created in 1865 by Joseph Grandval, Victor Roux, Albert Rostand and Armand Bergasse.

[1] Between 1989 and 1992, Denis Bonnasse sold his brokerage firm to Société Marseillaise de Crédit, which transferred control of the Marseille-based brokerage firm Blisson Bonnasse to Banque Pallas.

[3] In 1998, it was privatised again and bought by the Crédit Commercial de France, owned by HSBC.

[2] It was sold to Crédit du Nord (a member of the Société Générale group) in 2010.

The first cash dispenser in France was opened in Marseilles at the head office of SMC in 1968.