Structured Products magazine named BNP Paribas “House of the Year” and “Best in Japan” in its “Structured Products Asia Awards for Excellence 2008”. Specialised in derivatives-based investment products, the magazine recognises excellence in these products, as well as innovation and…

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…

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…

BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) was awarded four “Triple A” awards in the 2008 “Derivatives and Structured Products” category by The Asset magazine. The magazine’s Triple A recognition represents the industry’s most prestigious awards for banking, finance, treasury…

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 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…

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…