Hong Kong and Singapore – 7 October 2016 – BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking today announced it has been licenced for the Solactive Sustainable Development Goals World Index – a new equity index which enables investors to gain exposure to companies which have been identified as making a significant contribution to the advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The bank plans to issue structured products tied to the indices later this year.

BNP Paribas today announced the appointment of Nicolas Pillet as General Manager of its Tokyo Branch, effective October 1. Nicolas is succeeding Masayuki Imai. Tatsuhisa Ishikawa remains Deputy General Manager.

The Board of Directors of BNP Paribas met on 27 July 2016. The meeting was chaired by Jean Lemierre and the Board examined the Group’s results for the second quarter 2016 and endorsed the interim financial statements for the first half of…

BNP Paribas has been named “World’s Best Bank” for 2016 by Euromoney, the leading global financial publication, in its prestigious annual Awards for Excellence. The principal accolade of “World’s Best Bank” was one of eight won in total by BNP…

On June 29th Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, Chief Executive Officer and Director of BNP Paribas, has marked the commitment of the Group by signing the ILO[1] Business Charter on disability inclusion. This ceremony was held today in presence of  the French Minister…

We expect the UK’s decision to leave the EU to shave about 0.5% off the eurozone’s GDP in 2016−17 by fuelling uncertainty, hurting trade and tightening monetary and financial conditions. The ECB is likely to respond by providing additional liquidity…

UK’s historic vote to leave the European Union is now likely to be followed by a long process of negotiating the exit and the new relationship. Within the Conservative party speculation over a change of leadership will probably now mount. …

The “Insight” team, made up of 3 Ukrainian students coming from the National Taras Shevchenko University, emerged as winners of the final round of ‘Ace Manager – The Eight Set’, the Eighth annual international online business game for students run…

BNP Paribas Securities Services, a global custodian with USD 9 trillion in assets under custody, has launched ESG Risk Analytics, an innovative solution which enables clients to integrate Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance factors more easily into their investment decision-making…

Throughout the months of June and July, BNP Paribas teams will be working on three new Open Innovation initiatives intended to help design the financial services of the future, based on three key themes: Customer Journeys, Financial Technology and Connected…