“Mediator of the credit”, a role to measure for Rene Ricol

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You trust this air pass key, one nothing measured with compasses, that one sees him on the majority of the stereotypes, nor with its title of certified public accountant. Rene Ricol is a blazing character, a fine policy who has assiduously attended the alleys of the capacity for more than twenty years, a jovial fellow who collects the titles, the missions and the big-engined cars! ( Finance Information City )

It is with this 58 year old Lyonese that president Sarkozy, who had already entrusted in spring a report/ratio to him on the crisis of the subprimes, asked to restore the contact between the banks and SME. A title of “mediator of the completely new credit” and a role to measure for that which has, the first, alerted his/her friend “Nicolas” on the imminence of an explosion of the financial system. “As of this summer, a close relation of the Head of the State tells, he warned Nicolas Sarkozy whom he would have a massive problem to manage in the weeks to come and which that was going to be violent. ”

Here is a long time that Rene Ricol is not satisfied any more to be the first certified public accountant of France (it was during years with the head about the certified public accountants and of the Company of the auditors). “It is too brilliant to be satisfied some”, explains a banker. This man with the multiple caps, large contemporary art lover, initially was near to Raymond Barre (it took an active part in the presidential campaign in 1988). He put then his expertise at the service of Edith Cresson for its first “plan SME”, in 1990. Since, Rene Ricol is of all the programs in favour of the small and medium-size companies set up by the various governments.

Near to Jacques Chirac, he is also treasurer of the foundation created by the former President. Today, it is Nicolas Sarkozy, who had strongly impressed it when it was in Bercy, which calls upon him. For a strategic mission that its fellow-member and friend, the former minister Jean Arthuis, described as follows: “It is the anticoagulant of the device. ”