BNP Paribas becomes the Eurozone’s largest deposit bank Addition of two new domestic markets to BNP Paribas’ European footprint A unique opportunity to get access to high quality, market leading banking and insurance franchises consistent with BNP Paribas’ acquisition strategy…

For the first time this year, BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) won the “World’s Best Global Bank in Trade Finance 2008” award from Global Finance magazine. The “World’s Best Banks” were selected based on performance over the past…

BNP Paribas CIB decides to create a new activity called “Distressed Finance Group” and appoints Alain Dib as Global Head of DFG, reporting to Frederic Janbon, Global Head of Fixed Income, and Dominique Rémy, Global Head of Financing businesses. Alain…

An extract of the August 2008 edition of Investment Strategy: Technical rebound in equities fizzles outAfter a disastrous first two weeks of July for equity markets during which share prices fell below their previous lows of March in response to…

Abdelhakim Doukkali, director of Human Resources for the Gulf region, talks about the conference organised in May by the Group in Bahrain, highlighting the crucial role that women in leadership play in the region. 2008-06-13-WomenLeadershipVA.mp3 Read the press release regarding…

Over the last 35 years, the involvement of BNP Paribas in tennis has strengthened continuously at all levels: international, local, educational and social. On 19th May, for the first time, the bank launched a global corporate publicity campaign highlighting its…

Institutional Investor magazine just published its 2008 rankings of the best business leaders in Europe. In the “Financial,Technology and Services” category, BNP Paribas CEO Baudouin Prot ranked second, up one spot from 2007. The magazine develops its rankings through interviews…

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has granted a licence to BNP Paribas banking group to establish a fund management firm in Bahrain. BNP Paribas Asset Management B.S.C. will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Europe-based BNP Paribas Asset Management…

The prestigious credit rater A.M. Best, a worldwide insurance rating and information agency, has assigned its ratings “Financial Strength Rating” (FSR) and “Issuer Credit Rating” (ISR) to BNP Paribas Assurance S.A and its subsidiaries. BNP Paribas Assurance S.A. was given…

The Forbes magazine has recently released its 2008 Ranking of Top 2000 World’s Biggest Companies. Once more, BNP Paribas has been recognized as one of the largest banking groups worldwide. It has grown steadily, moving up to the 13th largest…