About us

BRED (Vanuatu) Limited is part of the second largest banking group in France, ‘Banque Populaire’, which also has outlets in New Caledonia, Tahiti, Vanuatu, Fiji and Solomon Islands.

Situated in downtown Port Vila & Luganville, BRED is located in the heart of Vanuatu’s business community.  The recently renovated building offers you a modern, friendly and comfortable environment for all your banking needs. At BRED we strive to offer you a full range of quality products with the highest level of professional service.  From individual clients to large corporations, BRED has a banking service to suit everyone.

BRED Group

BRED is a cooperative Banque Populaire, supported by its 200,000 members and 4.4 billion euros of equity.

The BRED Group has 5,600 employees, 25% of which are located outside France and in French overseas collectivities, offering services in retail banking, corporate banking, private banking, asset management, securities trading, an insurance company and international banking via its subsidiaries and international trade.

Its core business is commercial banking in France (in the Greater Paris Region, Aisne and Normandy, and in multiple French overseas territories including La Réunion, Mayotte, Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana) and French Overseas Collectivities, where it pursues targeted growth in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti), Oceania (New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Fiji) and in Asia (Laos and Cambodia).

It also has representation offices in Myanmar and Ethiopia, in addition to equity interests in a number of banks in these various regions of the world.

A local bank committed to its communities, in France it has a network of 322 local branches (including 81 in French overseas territories), 16 business centres (including 5 overseas), 13 asset management centres (including 3 overseas) and a wealth management division.

BRED maintains long-term relationships with more than one million clients: retail customers, tradespeople, shopkeepers, professionals, high net worth clients, SMEs, midcaps, large companies and institutions.

In addition to loans, investments and day-to-day banking, it offers all of its customers the products and services provided by its trading desk, insurance company and asset management company, in addition to those offered by the specialist subsidiaries of the BPCE Group.