BNP Paribas is one of the largest global
bankingA bank is a financial institution licensed by a government. Its primary activities include borrowing and lending money.Many other financial activities were allowed over time. For example banks are important players in financial markets and offer financial services such as investment funds...
groups in the world, headquartered in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with its second global headquarter in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
. It was created through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. In 2008 it was ranked as the 13th largest company in the world by
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and the largest in
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. In April 2009, BNP Paribas purchased a 75 percent stake in Fortis Bank, the Belgian banking business making BNP the
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's largest bank by deposits held.
BNP Paribas escaped the
2007-09 credit crisisThe financial crisis of 2007–2009 has been called the worst financial crisis since the one related to the Great Depression by leading economists, and it contributed to the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in the trillions of U.S. dollars, substantial financial...
relatively unscathed reporting a €3.1bn net profit for the first half of 2009 boosted by profits from
fixed incomeFixed income refers to any type of investment that yields a regular return.For example, if you lend money to a borrower and the borrower has to pay interest once a month, you have been issued a fixed-income security. When a company does this, it is often called a bond or corporate bank debt...
trading in its
CIBBNP Paribas CIB is the global investment banking arm of the BNP Paribas banking group, headquatered in London, Paris and New York. BNP Paribas CIB employs 17,000 people across 53 countries and provides financing, advisory and capital markets services...
(Corporate and Investment Banking) division.
BNP Paribas is one of the largest global
bankingA bank is a financial institution licensed by a government. Its primary activities include borrowing and lending money.Many other financial activities were allowed over time. For example banks are important players in financial markets and offer financial services such as investment funds...
groups in the world, headquartered in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with its second global headquarter in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
. It was created through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. In 2008 it was ranked as the 13th largest company in the world by
ForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published fortnightly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published fortnightly, and Business Week...
and the largest in
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. In April 2009, BNP Paribas purchased a 75 percent stake in Fortis Bank, the Belgian banking business making BNP the
eurozoneThe eurozone is an economic and monetary union of 16 European Union member states which have adopted the euro currency as their sole legal tender. It currently consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal,...
's largest bank by deposits held.
BNP Paribas escaped the
2007-09 credit crisisThe financial crisis of 2007–2009 has been called the worst financial crisis since the one related to the Great Depression by leading economists, and it contributed to the failure of key businesses, declines in consumer wealth estimated in the trillions of U.S. dollars, substantial financial...
relatively unscathed reporting a €3.1bn net profit for the first half of 2009 boosted by profits from
fixed incomeFixed income refers to any type of investment that yields a regular return.For example, if you lend money to a borrower and the borrower has to pay interest once a month, you have been issued a fixed-income security. When a company does this, it is often called a bond or corporate bank debt...
trading in its
CIBBNP Paribas CIB is the global investment banking arm of the BNP Paribas banking group, headquatered in London, Paris and New York. BNP Paribas CIB employs 17,000 people across 53 countries and provides financing, advisory and capital markets services...
(Corporate and Investment Banking) division. BNP Paribas has one of the highest credit ratings in its peer group with the long term debt of the group currently ranked
AA by S&P,
Aa1 by
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and
AA by
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.
History
In 1869, a group of bankers and investors including Adrien Delahante, Edmond Joubert and Henri Cernuschi founded the
Banque de Paris, with its headquarters near the Opera at 3 rue d'Antin, Paris.
Jonathan-Raphaël BisschoffsheimJonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim was a Belgian banker, businessman and philantropist. He descended from a Jewish family, and was endowed with an exceptional European network...
and his brother founded the
Nederlandsche Credit en Deposito Bank (NCDB) or
Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas
After the end of World War II, the French State decided to "put banks and credit to work for national reconstruction". René Pleven, then Minister of Finance, launched a massive reorganization of the banking industry. A law passed on 2 December 1945 redefined the regulatory framework governing the industry and decreed the nationalization of the Banque de France and the four leading French retail banks: BNCI, CNEP, Crédit Lyonnais and Société Générale. It went into effect on 1 January 1946.
Shares in these companies were transferred to the French State, which assumed complete ownership of the financial institutions. The boards of directors were dissolved and twelve new directors were appointed at each bank. BNCI and CNEP were merged in 1966 to form BNP.
BNP was privatised in 1993.
Originally the
Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Finance Corporation of Paris and the Netherlands), the
Compagnie Financière de Paribas became simply Paribas in 1998 after acquiring the
Compagnie Bancaire.
Claude de KemoulariaClaude de Kemoularia is a French citizen of Georgian descent whose career has been in the fields of banking and diplomacy. A socialist, he served as Dag Hammarskjöld's personal assistant from 1957 to 1961. In the mid-1960s, he was a special advisor to Prince Rainier of Monaco. From the late 1960s...
was an important executive in the bank in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1999, BNP and
Société GénéraleSociété Générale is one of the main European financial services companies and also maintains extensive activities in others parts of the world. Its registered office on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, while its headquarters are in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La Défense and...
fought a complex battle on the stock market, with Société Générale bidding for Paribas and BNP bidding for Société Générale and counter-bidding for Paribas. BNP's bid for Société Générale failed, while its bid for Paribas succeeded leading to a merger of BNP and Paribas one year later on 22 May 2000.
On 6 October 2008, BNP took over 75% of troubled bank
FortisFortis is a company that was active in banking, insurance, and investment management. In 2007 it was the 20th largest business in the world by revenue, but most of the company was sold in parts in 2008, with only insurance activities remaining....
' activities in
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, and 66% in
LuxembourgLuxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small, landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany...
, in exchange for the Belgian government becoming the new group's major shareholder. The sales of the Fortis shares was suspended by a court order from the Court of Appeal on Friday the 12th of December
On 14 December 2008, BNP announced it could lose €350 million as a victim of the
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.
In the end of January, the Belgian government and BNP negotiated for only a 75% partnership in Fortis Bank Belgium. Fortis Insurance Belgium would be reintegrated in Fortis Holding.
On 11 February, Fortis' shareholders decided that Fortis Bank Belgium and Fortis Insurance Belgium does not become property of BNPparibas. Nowadays, Fortis Holding only consists of Fortis Insurance International which contains Insurances all over Europe and Asia. Fortis Bank Belgium & Netherlands is in the hands of the national government.
Profile
BNP Paribas is the largest bank in the
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by total assets and second largest by market capitalization according to
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. It employs 162,700 people, of which 80,000 work in Europe, and maintains a presence in 87 countries. The bank is active in the finance, investment and asset management markets.
In France, BNP Paribas is active in
retail bankingRetail banking refers to banking in which banking institutions execute transactions directly with consumers, rather than corporations or other banks...
with 2,200 branches and over 3,200 ATM machines. In Paris alone the Bank has 187 agencies.
BNP Paribas serves over 6 million French households and 60,000 corporate customers.
In the United States, BNP Paribas owns
Bank of the WestBank of the West, with $67 billion in assets as of December 31, 2008, is a full-service commercial bank serving customers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington,...
. It also has investment banking capabilities via its BancWest subsidiary. In particular, it is strong in equity derivatives,
structured productA structured product is generally a pre-packaged investment strategy which is based on derivatives, such as a single security, a basket of securities, options, indices, commodities, debt issuances and/or foreign currencies, and to a lesser extent, swaps. The variety of products just described is...
s and project finance. In addition, BNP Paribas maintains a strong middle market merchant banking group. This group focuses on providing leveraged acquisition finance to private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts, both through senior secured syndicated loans, high yield bond offerings, equity co-investment, and mezzanine financing.
BNP Paribas is a member of the
Global ATM AllianceThe Global ATM Alliance is a joint venture of several major international banks that allows customers of their banks to use their ATM card or debit card at another bank within the Global ATM Alliance with no International ATM Access fees. However, other fees, such as an international transaction...
, a joint venture of several major international banks that allows customers of the banks to use their
ATMAn automated teller machine is a computerized telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public space without the need for a human clerk or bank teller...
card or
check cardThe term check card can refer to:- An identification card issued by a retailer allowing the holder to tender payment by check. Such cards were commonly issued in the United States by supermarkets and other retailers before the widespread use of debit cards....
at another bank within the Global ATM Alliance with no fees when traveling internationally. Other participating banks are Barclays (
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),
Bank of AmericaBank of America Corporation , based in Charlotte, North Carolina is one of the largest financial services companies, largest bank by assets, largest commercial bank by deposits and is the second largest by market capitalization in the United States. The company holds 12.2% of all U.S. deposits...
(
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),
China Construction BankChina Construction Bank is one of the 'big four' banks in the People's Republic of China. To date, it is ranked as the nation's second largest and the second largest bank in the world by market capitalization. The bank has approximately 13,629 domestic branches...
(
ChinaChina is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
),
Deutsche BankDeutsche Bank AG is an international Universal bank with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank employs more than 81,000 people in 76 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets.Deutsche Bank has offices in major financial centers,...
(
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), Santander Serfin (
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),
UkrSibbank«UkrSibbank» - full name Joint Stock Commercial Innovation Bank “UkrSibbank”. It was registered on June 18, 1990. As of today, JSCIB «UkrSibbank» is the third largest bank of Ukraine, the second among foreign-owned banks, and acts as a financial supermarket....
(
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
),
ScotiabankThe Bank of Nova Scotia is the third largest bank in Canada by deposits and market capitalization...
(
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
) and
WestpacWestpac , is a multinational Financial services company and became the largest bank in Australia after it took over St George., and, the second-largest bank in New Zealand...
(
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and
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).
On 11 June 2008, BNP Paribas formally signed the final terms of an agreement to purchase the Prime Brokerage Services division of Banc of America Securities. The sale is widely believed to be completed by the end of the 3rd Quarter, 2008.
Events in 2005
On 23 September 2005, BNP Paribas was set to take a 20 percent stake in China's Nanjing City Commercial Bank, a Chinese official and state press reports said. "BNP is going to sign a deal with us to buy a stake next month," an official from Nanjing City Commercial told AFP. The Shanghai-based
Oriental Morning Post said BNP would pay up to US$100 million, although the bank official said the figure was incorrect. He declined to give further details. The French newspaper
La TribuneLa Tribune is a French financial newspaper that was founded in 1985. The paper is in tabloid format and has a circulation of around 78,000....
reported in August 2005 that BNP Paribas had talked to four Chinese commercial banks—Ningbo, Wuxi, Nanjing and Suzhou—and was prepared to invest US$50–100 million. "We've talked to different financial institutions, but only BNP showed its good faith. It was not easy for us to reach an agreement," the Nanjing City Commercial Bank official said. BNP Paribas refused to comment. The International Financial Corporation, the investment arm of the
World BankThe World Bank is an international financial institution that provides leveraged loans to poorer countries for capital programs, tied to neoliberal market restructurings...
, already owns 15 percent of Nanjing City Commercial Bank, which has regulatory approval to list on the country's domestic
stock marketA stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price; these are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately....
s.
Major shareholders
- France (17%)
- Belgium (11.6%)
- AXA
AXA is a French global insurance companies group headquartered in Paris. AXA is not the name of a single company but a group of companies independently organized and operated according to the regulations of many different countries....
insurance company
- Customers
- Employees
- General Mediterranean Holdings
The General Mediterranean Holding is a financial holding company established in 1979 in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, through which Anglo-Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi control his financial empire...
Communication
BNP Paribas is one of the most important sponsors of Tennis French Open in
Roland GarrosRoland Garros was an early French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I.-Biography:...
stadium since 1971. This event allows BNP Paribas to communicate worldwide two weeks a year.
Retail banking
- BNP Paribas France (more than 2 200 branches)
- Banque de Bretagne (France - Brittany
Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Brittany was previously a kingdom and then as a duchy it was a fief of the Kingdom of France. It was at one time called Less, Lesser or Little Britain...
)
- BancWest (Bank of the West
Bank of the West, with $67 billion in assets as of December 31, 2008, is a full-service commercial bank serving customers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington,...
& First Hawaiian BankFirst Hawaiian Bank is a regional commercial bank headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii at the First Hawaiian Center. It is a subsidiary of BancWest Corporation, which itself is a subsidiary of the French banking company, BNP Paribas...
in the USA)
- BMCI
BMCI is a bank based in Morocco. It's a subsidiary of the French financial group BNP Paribas....
(MoroccoMorocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under . Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the...
)
- BNL
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA is an Italian banking firm. Founded in 1913 as Istituto di Credito per la Cooperazione, it was nationalized in 1929. It was re-privatized and listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in 1998, before being acquired by French banking group BNP Paribas in 2006...
(Banca Nazionale del Lavoro - ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
)
- TEB
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(Turk Ekonomi BankasiTürk Ekonomi Bankası , abbreviated TEB, was founded in 1927 by private capital holders as a regional bank under the name of Kocaeli Bankası T.A.Ş. in İzmit, Turkey....
) (TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
)
- Fortis Bank (Belgium
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, GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
, PolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, TurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey
, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
)
- BGL SA (Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small, landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany...
)
- Sahara Bank
The Sahara Bank was established in 1964.In December 22, 1970, the Revolutionary Command issued another law "the Nationalization Decision" which demanded that all the foreign banks shares were nationalized and became completely owned by Libya....
(LibyaLibya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa...
)
- UkrSibbank
«UkrSibbank» - full name Joint Stock Commercial Innovation Bank “UkrSibbank”. It was registered on June 18, 1990. As of today, JSCIB «UkrSibbank» is the third largest bank of Ukraine, the second among foreign-owned banks, and acts as a financial supermarket....
(UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
)
- BCI Mer Rouge Djibouti
- Banque de Wallis et Futuna
Other subsidiaries
- Atisreal
Atisreal is a European commercial property consultancy company and subsidiary of BNP Paribas with around 2,600 employees in 51 cities. Its headquarters are in Levallois-Perret, France...
renamed BNP Paribas Real Estate
- BNP Paribas Arbitrage
- BNP Paribas Assurances with Cardif
Cardif is an international insurance company with a presence in the Netherlands. The company is part of the BNP Paribas Group.-Origin:Cardif is a branch of the French insurance company BNP Paribas Assurance, founded in 1973. Today, Cardif’s global operations represent the world’s second largest...
, PinnacleA pinnacle is an architectural ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire...
- BNP Paribas Asset Management
- BNP Paribas Lease Group with Arval, car leasing and Artegy
- BNP Paribas Securities Services
- BNP Paribas Wealth Management with Isinger de Beaufort, BNP Paribas Private Banking
- Cetelem
- LaSer
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with Cofinoga
- CortalConsors
- FundQuest
- Geojit
Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services Geojit BNP Paribas is a retail financial services company in India with a growing presence in the Middle East. The company sells a range of savings and investment products. The value-added products and services offered range from equities and derivatives to...
(Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services Ltd.)
- L'Atelier
- BNP Paribas CIB
BNP Paribas CIB is the global investment banking arm of the BNP Paribas banking group, headquatered in London, Paris and New York. BNP Paribas CIB employs 17,000 people across 53 countries and provides financing, advisory and capital markets services...
(Corporate and Investment Banking)
- Creation Consumer Finance
- Lafayette Services
Business
- Boris Adlam
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- British financier
- Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a literary essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance. Though a specialist in financial derivatives, he is critical of the finance industry...
- practitioner of financial mathematicsMathematical finance comprises the branches of applied mathematics concerned with the financial markets.The subject has a close relationship with the discipline of financial economics, which is concerned with much of the underlying theory. Generally, mathematical finance will derive, and extend,...
Politics and public service
- Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
Prince Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Bourbon, Duke of Touraine is a claimant to the French throne, and considered to be the head of the French Royal House by legitimists who consider the renunciation of Philip V of Spain as invalid...
- considered by royalists as the head of the French Royal House.
- Jacques de Larosière
Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu is a French civil servant. He is the Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the French Treasury and Advisor to BNP Paribas, became President of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in September 1993 in the wake of the scandals that led...
- managing director of the International Monetary Fund (1978-87); Governor of the Banque de France (1987-93)
- Lorenz of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria-Este
Other
- David McWilliams
David McWilliams is an Irish journalist and economist. McWilliams has worked with the Central Bank of Ireland, UBS bank, and the Banque Nationale de Paris...
- economist
- Georges Chodron de Courcel - Managing Director, from the family of Mrs. Bernadette Chirac
Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac, born Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chodron de Courcel is a French politician and the former First Lady of France. She is married to former President Jacques Chirac....
- Edmond Turquieh - founder of Sapiance Capital Ltd
See also
- List of French companies
- List of banks
- Primary dealers
A primary dealer is a bank or securities broker-dealer that may trade directly with the Federal Reserve System of the United States . Such firms are required to make bids or offers when the Fed conducts open market operations, provide information to the Fed's open market trading desk, and to...
- European Financial Services Roundtable
The European Financial Services Roundtable is a European organization, located in Brussels, Belgium, of financial service companies to provide a voice on policies of the European Union related to financial matters...
- Angolagate
Angolagate, also known as the Mitterrand-Pasqua affair, is an international political scandal over the secret sale and shipment of arms from Eastern Europe to the government of Angola by the Government of France in the 1990s. The scandal has also been tied to the U.S...
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