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…

BNP Paribas Securities Services (‘BNP Paribas’), the custody bank with the world’s best credit rating, is pleased to announce the appointments of Valérie Nicaise as Head of the IRP Risk Measurement team and Sophie Bourgarel as Head of Business Projects…

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 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…

This year, BNP Paribas has been recognised by Risk Magazine as Structured Products House of the Year 2008, awarding its quality of service, secondary market pricing and speed of execution. With a wider breadth of underlyings and a larger span…

BNP Paribas is named Bank of the Year 2007 for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in Project Finance by Project Finance International BNP Paribas confirmed its high score in both the value and volume of deals with a diverse…

After Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary and Turkey in the last two years, UCB is opening an office in Germany with a branch in Nuremberg, near the Cortal Consors teams. UCB aims to quickly position itself as a European specialist in real…

BNP Paribas retains its place as leader for the 4th year in a row, according to the “Mergers and Acquisitions” magazine. Indeed, the French group is ahead of the American banking industry heavyweights, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Based on…

Jane’s Transport Finance named BNP Paribas, for the third consecutive year, “Aircraft Finance Innovator of the Year”. The group was also named “Aircraft Leasing Innovator of the Year”. In addition to these global awards, the leadership of BNP Paribas in…