La Banque Postale authorised to sell non-life insurance

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France’s post office bank, La Banque Postale, will be allowed to distribute non-life insurance classes such as household or motor classes from 1 January 2009, the country’s finance minister Christine Lagarde has said. La Banque Postale has some 17,000 points of sale around France.