Caisse Centrale de la France Libre

The Caisse Centrale de la France Libre (CCFL, lit. 'Central Bank of Free France') was a bank of issue established by Free France in London in 1941, serving French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon following their de facto secession from Vichy France. It soon evolved into a specialized note-issuing and development bank for French overseas territories and was renamed the Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer (CCFOM, lit. 'Central Bank of Overseas France') in early 1944, then the Caisse Centrale de Coopération Économique (CCCE, lit. 'Central Fund for Economic Cooperation') in 1958.

It was the predecessor institution of the Bank of Central African States (BEAC), France's Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer (IEDOM) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and national development banks in several African countries.: 19 

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