In an increasingly complex and competitive global economic environment, investment banks help businesses, institutions and governments meet their objectives with appropriate, innovative solutions. Through its corporate and investment banking arm, BNP Paribas figures among the world's leading banking institutions providing clients with a wide range of sophisticated financial services. The Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division of BNP Paribas offers a full range of advisory and financing services to companies, financial institutions and investors, no matter where they are located in the world.   Blending the expertise of its various business lines, CIB's diverse product range is made up of integrated financial solutions. The bank's activities are balanced between advisory and capital markets (Corporate Finance, Equities & Derivatives, Fixed Income) and financing businesses (Structured Finance; Energy, Commodities, Export & Project Finance). An integrated group called Coverage and Territories Europe (CTE) covers strategic and large corporate relationships and leads sales efforts in Europe. This dovetails with CIB's strategy to reinforce its positions in Europe, develop its strengths in origination, and make the most of its potential to expand in the European market, now considered to be its domestic market. Similarly, for the rest of the world, the Coverage and Territories International (CTI) team covers strategic and large corporate relationships in North and South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East and ensures leadership of those CIB territories. Under CTI's authority, the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) covers banks, insurance companies, supranational entities and other financial institutions throughout the world. These teams sell all the products of BNP Paribas and its subsidiaries. The CTE and CTI relationship managers, owing to their detailed knowledge of their clients' industrial strategy and their daily involvement with their operations, are uniquely placed to lead the client relationship and ensure coordination with product specialists. Headquartered essentially in Paris and London, BNP Paribas' Corporate and Investment Banking division has a workforce of 13,000 employees deployed in 80 countries around the world. This highly-developed international network is one of the bank's key strengths. BNP Paribas is one of the largest banks in Europe in terms of market capitalization.