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Introduction

Whether managing exposure to risk, looking for investment opportunities or developing ways to finance or expand business activities, BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) has the expertise and global reach to deliver precise solutions. Working from offices in 53 countries, with approximatly 16,000 people, CIB enables corporations, financial institutions, governments and supranational organisations to meet all their financial objectives.

CIB has the support of the BNP Paribas group. With a presence in 85 countries and consistently high AA credit ratings, this is one of the world’s largest and most stable groups in financial services today.

CIB is viewed as BNPParibas profit and growth pillar, ensuring an increasing third of the group’s revenues and income.



One Bank

To enhance knowledge sharing among its expert teams and consolidate the global approach to client service CIB promotes a ‘One Bank’ spirit. Client-facing groups, specialised by geographical areas, serve some 6,000 corporate clients and 640 financial institutions, ensuring client access to the Bank’s entire product offering. This single interface facilitates coordinated access to the specialists in all of the Group’s business lines, and allows to devise structured global solutions perfectly adapted to client needs.




Advisory and capital Markets

Corporate Finance offers advisory services for mergers and acquisitions and primary equity market transactions. The M&A teams advise both buyers and targets and also offer advice on other strategic financial issues, such as privatisations. Primary market services include flotations, equity issues, secondary issue placements, and convertible/exchangeable bond issues. Corporate Finance has adopted a matrix organisation designed to give clients access to the best combination of specialists in each product, industry and geographical area, while optimising resource management.

BNP Paribas holds a recognized worldwide leadership in Equity Derivatives and enjoys exceptional growth. The Equities and Derivatives business encompasses research, structuring, trading and sales of Asian equities and global equity derivatives, indexes and funds. Equities and Derivatives teams operate in secondary as well as primary markets, where they complement Corporate Finance’s range of activities. The client portfolio includes financial institutions, hedge funds, companies and individuals.

Fixed Incomes product expertise and distribution capabilities have positioned BNP Paribas among the top 3 Fixed Income players in Europe, together with strong franchises in Asia, Japan and the USA. The group’s comprehensive approach to developing solutions for its clients integrates global expertise in research, sales, trading, origination and distribution, comprising three product lines: Global Credit, Interest Rates Group and Foreign Exchange. The Bank is a recognised global house in the interest rate and credit derivatives markets, and is a leading player in global Forex. Further, the Bank provides a tailored comprehensive range of research products for client advice, based on pioneering quantitative techniques delivered by a group of world-class experts.




Financing Businesses

By grouping together under Energy Commodities Export Project (ECEP), as a single management umbrella, all of the Bank’s expertise in energy, commodities, infrastructures, capital goods and asset financing, BNP Paribas has created an innovative structure that meets the full array of client needs and effectively leverages synergies between the various businesses. And actually, BNP Paribas stands out as one of the key worldwide players in these activities and as the global market leader in commodities and energy financing.
BNP Paribas’ Structured Finance team designs and structures a broad range of complex financing arrangements, on a worldwide basis, including syndicated loans, acquisition and LBO financing, media and telecommunications financing, and real estate financing. This business is also in charge of syndicating and distributing all financing originated by the BNP Paribas Group.


Advisory and Capital Markets

A leader in Europe
- France: Best M&A House (Euromoney, Jul 07),"M&A Adviser of the year"(Acquisitions Monthly -Dec 07)
- Italy: #3 Overall Derivatives Dealers 2007 (Risk Italia -Dec 07)
- Europe:#10 M&A Announced Deals in Europe (Thomson Financial -2007)

Global Franchises
- "Structured Products House of the Year 2008" (Risk Awards -Jan 08)
- "Structured Products House of the Year 2007" for the second consecutive year(Euromoney -July 07)
- "Interest Rates House of the Year" (Structured Products -Nov 07)
- "Credit House of the Year" (Structured Products -Nov 07)
- "Structurer of the Year, North America" (Structured Products -Apr 07)

Strong presence in Asia
- "Rising Star Equity House" (The Asset Triple A -Dec 07)
- "Best Investment Grade Bond of the year" : KEXIM USD 1.5 bn SEC-registered5-year fixed rate global bond offering"(AsiaMoney -Jan 2008)
- "Derivatives House of the Year Asia ex-Japan 2007" (AsiaRisk - Oct 07)


Financing Businesses

A leader in Europe
- #2 Bookrunner in EMEA for syndicated loans (Thomson, by volume -2007)
- "Best Arranger of Western European Loans" (Euroweek -Feb 08)
- "European Telecom Loan Bank of the Year 2007" (Telecom Finance -Jan 08)

Global Franchises
- #1 Global Mandated Lead Arranger for Export Credit Agency backedtransactions(Dealogic, by volume -2007)
- #1 Global Mandated Lead Arranger -Project Finance (Thomson, by volume -2007)
- "Best Structured Commodity Bank" (Trade Finance Magazine -June 07)
- "Best Trade Bank in Oil / Energy and Most Innovative Bank in Trade" (Trade & Forfaiting Review -July 07)
- "Best Trade Finance Bank worldwide" (Global Finance -Dec 07)


All CIB Awards and Rankings


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