LCL

LCL is the brand, adopted in 2005 with reference to "Le Crédit Lyonnais", of the French retail bank that survives from Crédit Lyonnais, a major bank created in 1863 and absorbed by its former rival Crédit Agricole in 2003. Crédit Lyonnais began in Lyon and moved its head office to Paris in 1882; in the early twentieth century it was the world's largest bank by assets. Its link with the Tour de France is the yellow jersey: Crédit Lyonnais has sponsored the maillot jaune since 1987, and from 2007 the sponsorship has been credited to LCL.