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Cajamar Cooperative Group
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Not to be confused with Cajamar, São Paulo.
The Cajamar Cooperative Group (Spanish: Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar) is the largest grouping of agricultural cooperative banks (Spanish: cajas rurales) in Spain, with origins in the establishment in 1966 of Caja Rural de Almería, rebranded in 2000 as Cajamar Caja Rural.
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Whereas Cajamar Caja Rural remains the group's most significant component, its national entity is Banco de Crédito Social Cooperativo, SA (BCC), a Madrid-headquartered bank established in 2014 by Cajamar Caja Rural and 31 other local agricultural cooperative banks. BCC has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.[1][2]