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…

The Bureau Véritas initial public offering, 1,240 million Euros, is the largest on Euronext Paris since AdP. It involved the sale of 32,8 million shares previously held by the Wendel Group and some managers. Despite poor market conditions, the offering…

BNP Paribas was named “Best Credit Derivatives Provider-Asia” and “Best Equity Derivatives Provider-North America” by Global Finance. A full report on the awards will be published in the November issue of the magazine. For the fourth consecutive year, Global Finance…

Following on L’Atelier, BNP Paribas‘ center of new technologies monitoring and analysis, several companies of the Group joined the virtual world of Second Life. The net surfers browse this 3-D community network thanks to their avatar (a virtual character). INTERVIEW…

BNP Paribas ranks fourth globally in the renewable energy sector in 2006. With $ 1,054.2m financing and eight projects financed, BNP Paribas is the first French bank in the ranking. In particular, BNP Paribas has financed three wind resorts in…