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From AI and Big Data to fintech and blockchain, technology is reshaping entire industries. We explore the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead.
How to enhance real-time corporate banking solutions
Real-time banking solutions often fall short of what corporates expect in terms of transactional capabilities, ease of banking and access to financial data...
Podcast special: the future of treasury management
Xavier Gallant, Co-Head of Corporate Rates, FX & Local Markets Sales EMEA, shares his views on the latest trends and developments in treasury management.
The next frontier in algorithmic currency trading?
4th generation interaction algos are revolutionising foreign exchange trading with institutional investors and even corporates. Have we reached peak algo?
New AI and Quant approaches emerge amidst economic uncertainty
At BNP Paribas' Quant Conference, experts discussed current quant trends in the ways asset managers use AI and data science as part of their investment strategies...
When treasurers become the in-house fintech experts
As treasurers take on a wider business role, they are not only expected to find ways to harmonise technology that supports core functions like cash and working capital...
Trade Information Network: a new industry standard for trade finance
TIN enables companies to easily and securely share trade information with banks, helping meet demand for financing earlier in the supply chain.
Aurélia Normand - Head of CIB Transaction Banking EMEA and Head of Global Transaction Banking Filière at BNP Paribas
Learning in a time of Coronavirus
With schools across mainland China and Hong Kong shut and millions of children stuck inside their apartments, the online learning and virtual reality education sector...
Data, A.I. and client experience: how do banks get ahead in digital FX?
Digital innovations are transforming the FX industry. Neehal Shah, Global Head of G10 FX Trading, makes the case for banks – and why they will drive change.
Neehal Shah - Global Head of G10 FX Trading at BNP Paribas
SWIFT KYC Registry goes live for Corporates
Multi-bank corporates now have secure access to SWIFT's online portal for exchanging KYC information, freeing up time for bankers and corporate treasurers.
Systematic investment strategies: does the future lie in algorithms?
An increasing number of investors are moving towards systematic strategies, including in fixed income.
It’s a blockchain reaction for Asian stock exchanges
Blockchain is innovating Asian stock exchanges, but there is a genuine need for collaboration to ensure the end user benefits from its full potential.
Treasury Digitisation in Three Simple Words
As companies embark on digitising treasury management, they must build real-time business ecosystems that are safe, responsible and sustainable.
Top honours for BNP Paribas: 2019 Greenwich Leaders
BNP Paribas has scooped top honours in the 2019 Greenwich Share and Quality Leaders for Asian Large Corporate Trade Finance, as our clients further recognise our...
Blockchain is more than just numbers for these small farmers
In the journey from farm to fork, opacity in supply chains can mean crippling costs for smallholder farmers. But as consumers increasingly demand to know the provenance...
Jacques Levet - Head of Transaction Banking EMEA at BNP Paribas
The Treasurer’s Guide to the New Payments Landscape in Asia
As corporate treasurers embark on digitisation, banks are playing a key role in creating secure and well-regulated real-time payments ecosystems.
Mahesh Kini - Head of Cash Management, Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas Signs Partnership with Kantox to offer Dynamic Hedging
EMEA corporate clients to benefit from highly innovative dynamic hedging software under this new bank and fintech partnership.
The next generation of FX algos: pushing the limits of digital trading
Asif Razaq, Global Head of FX Automated Client Execution, talks to FX Algo News about BNP Paribas' 4th generation algo suite. "Insight Live",...
Harnessing Data to Build the Treasury of Tomorrow
How well are corporate treasurers using data to serve their companies' evolving business needs and how can banks help them overcome the challenges?
Krishna Sampath - Head of Liquidity Advisory at BNP Paribas Asia Pacific
Why now is the time for digital corporate banking
Thierry Bujon de l'Estang, Head of CIB's Digital Banking for Clients, offers his thoughts on the digital landscape, the future of banking and Centric,...
Top honours in forex tech for BNP Paribas: FX Week eFX Awards
Our pioneering trading technology has continued to push the boundaries for forex market participants – and has now won industry plaudits as FX Week names BNP Paribas...
Cybersecurity in the quantum era: “We must prepare for the future”
Cybersecurity may soon be threatened by advances in quantum computing. We need to prepare for change.
ESG Global Survey 2019: investing with Purpose for Performance
Our latest survey reveals a stronger commitment to integrating ESG in investment decisions since 2017. The next few years will be vital for asset owners and managers...
Harnessing the power of AI in India
'AI is one technology where India can fully leverage its people': businesses in India are bullish on AI, but to boost its potential we must also consider the role...
Pioneering digital change: BNP Paribas named in Digital FX Awards
Recognition for BNP Paribas' pioneering work in next generation algo execution and workflow integration at Profit and Loss' 2019 awards.
Unleashing fintech’s potential in treasury management
As technology advances, how do corporate treasurers ensure they reap the rewards of fintech solutions while keeping up with evolving regulations?
Vincent Marchand - Head of Cash Management Fintech Lab at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas and Millennium Global Investments (MGI) launch AI FX Index
BNP Paribas announced the launch of the BNP Paribas MGI Systematic Currency Alpha Index using artificial intelligence through machine learning
Silos to Ecosystems: Finding the Best Fintech Cash Management Models
With ever-increasing fintech solutions, corporate treasurers find it hard to pick the best cash management solutions to save money, time and reduce risks.
Vincent Marchand - Head of Cash Management Fintech Lab at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas and GTS Extend Strategic Collaboration into US Equities
Collaboration between banks and electronic Market Makers enters next phase.
Boosting liquidity and best execution for emerging market currencies
Electronic emerging market forex execution is subject to liquidity and capital control constraints – but how does EM and G10 FX trading tech differ?...
Grand vision for India’s smart cities is slowly taking shape
The new Amaravati billed as India's most cutting-edge city.
Journeys to Treasury 2018-19: The digital treasury in practice
The 2018-19 Journeys to Treasury report explores the current and future issues shaping the treasury landscape.
Asia Pacific's brokers at the crossroads of digital transformation
In a dynamic, fast-changing region, third-party clearing helps bank and brokers adapt to new technologies, regulations and settlement standards.
Diversity at the heart of bank transformation
From part-time teller to CEO, Nandita Bakhshi shares her inspiring story of leadership, saying 'yes' to opportunities and not being afraid to move laterally.
Nandita Bakhshi - CEO at Bank of the West
FX Algo News discusses the future of smart eFX with Asif Razaq
BNP Paribas' Global Head of FX Automated Client Execution discusses the latest advances in the bank's FX spot algorithm execution service, CORTEX iX,...
Carmakers gear up for the connectivity economy
Carmakers are radically restructuring their business models as they seek to harness the lucrative potential of the digital revolution.
Can fintech help shift the trillions?
A transition to a sustainable economy will require a concerted global effort and a major reallocation of investor capital. As data, analytics and technology become...
Emmanuelle Aubertel - Sustainable Finance Origination at BNP Paribas
Partnering to provide buy-side clients with derivatives workstation
BNP Paribas and Fidessa partner to provide buy-side clients with derivatives workstation.
Trust is key for corporate treasurers
BNP Paribas and Boston Consulting Group survey reveals that trust is the key component for corporate treasurers in an increasing digitalised environment.
Unchaining the shackles on real estate with blockchain
How blockchain is making monumental changes in the property industry.
Hand in Hand: AI and the Modern Treasurer
By working together, computers and people can achieve outstanding results. Modern trading technologies take the burden of executing large FX orders off the shoulders...
Connected intersections a key factor for smart mobility
With self-driving cars soon to be travelling around tomorrow's digitally-managed cities, it's time for a re-think on all urban transport infrastructure.
Empowering Transformation with Technology
BNP Paribas discusses its role and responsibilities, and how banks can help drive forward the allocation of resources to purposeful causes.
Constance Chalchat - Head of Change Management, Corporate and Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas wins three awards for Digital FX
BNP Paribas wins Editor's Choice, Client Experience and Algo Provider of the Year at Profit and Loss magazine's 2018 Digital FX Awards.
Can blockchain spark a sustainable supply chain revolution?
Is fintech the key to unlocking value in sustainable supply chains? Four startups and six blue chips join a Cambridge initiative to see how it could work.
BNP Paribas invests in NLP Specialists Digital Reasoning
Natural Language Processing is at the forefront of developments in AI, and is set to boost the digital capabilities of the banking industry.
Sorting through the noise: insights for private banks’ digital agenda
Latest report reveals what APAC HNWIs would like to see in a more digitised wealth advisory model.
Are you ready for the bank of tomorrow?
Smart data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, customer experience: these are just some of the areas of focus as BNP Paribas builds the bank of tomorrow.
Globalisation 2.0
Globalisation 2.0 is creating a revolution in ideas and perspectives, explains Professor Ian Goldin of Oxford University.
Six transformational trends in Asia-Pacific
Technology and regulation are driving change. BNP Paribas Securities Services explores how they are transforming clearing and settlement in Asia-Pacific.
Gary O'Brien - Head of Clearing and Custody Product, APAC at BNP Paribas Securities Services
Breaking Boundaries: how AI is transforming banking
What does AI mean for banking? Why will it impact everyday investors? Some of the world's best minds came together at an event sponsored by BNP Paribas.
How are banks harnessing the power of fintech for sustainability?
What happens when multinationals, financial institutions and startups start working in partnership to solve a sustainability challenge?
Agility, organisations and the future of work
From millennials to baby boomers, agile working is re-sculpting offices, attitudes, and work cultures.
The Digital Future of US Custody
How is digitalisation changing the custody business? TABB Group considers what clients want, as well as the concerns and needs of banks and broker-dealers.
BNP Paribas Lands Five IFR Awards 2017
BNP Paribas has been named Derivatives House of the Year by leading financial publication, IFR.
How AI can enhance sustainability
Artificial intelligence and sustainability are not frequent bedfellows, but one of the world's leading technology companies shows us how it could be done.
Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work: Web Summit 2017
In Lisbon, CIB talks about the importance of education, technology and diversity, and the need for innovation to harness the power of digital.
BNP Paribas and GTS announce strategic collaboration
The bank leverages GTS' trading technology to further improve pricing to clients in the secondary market for U.S. Treasuries.
Smart Working, Smart Banking, Smart Financing
How should firms find smart solutions to old problems? An expression of co-creation and tech, Smart-f shows the upside of smart thinking and agile working.
Atypical profilers against cybercrime
In a changing world Aspertise leverages on the cognitive abilities of talented developers with Asperger syndrome to provide technology solutions.
China: Turbocharging the FinTech phenomenon
China's insatiable appetite for digital payments is driving rapid banking sector transformation and forging a new global FinTech landscape.
Coming to America: French Start-Ups Cross the Atlantic
Eight French start-ups battle it out at BNP Paribas New York as the bank sponsors FrenchFounders for its first ever Startup Tour.
Co-designing success, one client at a time
Sucafina, Panini and Institut Karité explain the power of co-design for corporates, and how it embeds a deeper level of trust with their banking partners.
Why co-creation matters
Innovate! Collaborate! Co-create! Such words are entering the corporate vernacular with greater frequency. What do they mean? And why are they necessary?
Solveig Bachellery - Head of Innovation, BNP Paribas CIB
On the front foot
Yann Gérardin speaks with The Banker magazine about the CIB transformation plan, and the banks' strategic drivers of digital and sustainability.
Next generation digital experience: a new breed of client
Paud O'Keeffe, Head of Innovation at BNP Paribas Securities Services in Dublin, looks at young people's digital experience
Paud O'Keeffe - Head of Innovation at BNP Paribas Securities Services in Dublin
Moving up the value chain
Outsourcing is no longer only about back office processes and cost efficiency. Welcome to outsourcing 2.0.
How are start-ups transforming banking?
Three start-ups – Collaborne, QEDit and ASPertise – talked to BNP Paribas about their goals, their dreams and the future of banking at VivaTech 2017.
Co-creation, clients and blockchain: MyCollat
Onerous paper-based reconciliation processes have long posed a challenge to clients and banks. How might co-creation and fintech provide the answer?
Digital transformation, a key challenge for BNP Paribas
Constance Chalchat, BNP Paribas CIB Head of Change Management, interviewed by BFM Business on their Tech&Co programme
Constance Chalchat - Head of Change Management, Corporate and Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas
Artificial intelligence: the vision, the reality and the opportunities
Long exerting a powerful grip on our imagination, AI is now a reality and the opportunities are tremendous. What should companies focus on?
Constance Chalchat - Head of Change Management, Corporate and Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas
Bank to the future: tech and the capital markets
The capital markets have not seen the same degree of automation witnessed in other market sectors. This is about to change – but what will it look like?
Martin Egan - Global Co-Head of Primary and Credit Markets at BNP Paribas
A.I. and the new work revolution
How artificial intelligence is changing work - and why people will be more important than ever
Constance Chalchat - Head of Change Management, Corporate and Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas
Millennials will change your business - the question is how
The largest generational cohort, understanding millennials and their preferences should be a priority. How can financial institutions enhance their appeal?
Digital Take-Off
How Ryanair has put digital at the heart of its growth ambitions.
Accelerating our digital transformation
BNP Paribas will invest €3bn in an ambitious plan to accelerate the digital transformation of the bank to serve the evolving needs of clients.
Putting the customer in the driver's seat of digital transformation
Amongst the commonly cited motivations for digital transformation, improving the customer experience has the highest unrealized potential.
Richard Owen - President and CEO of Satmetrix
Brave New World: Digital Week 2017
Our inaugural Digital Week event in New York, Paris and London explored how we can harness the power of technology to create new ways of working.
On Cloud Nine
Digital transformation means new opportunities and new services. For OVH, a cloud computing specialist, there is no limit – except our imagination.
The Industries of the Future
Tech guru and best-selling author Alec Ross talks about the innovations set to transform business and society in the near future – and why this matters.
Alec Ross
Game changers - adapting to new digital and esg frontiers
After notching up five wins in its prestigious annual awards in 2016, BNP Paribas talked to Structured Products Europe about how business is changing.
Keeping ahead of the cybercriminals
The increasing sophistication of cyberattacks is asking hard questions of companies' defences – and has become a top priority for CFOs and treasurers.
Bricks and mortar enter the digital bazaar
Long driven by venture capital, the rapid growth of the digital sector is now seeing a new kid on the block: the corporate.
Rules for digital revolutionaries
Emerging guidelines for financial institutions on digital technology and innovation.
The world changes slowly until it doesn't
Big companies and startups have a lot to learn from each other. Working jointly, they can enrich the market place with new valuable products and offerings.
Vanessa Fraiberger - Head of Transaction Banking 2.0. at BNP Paribas
Telecoms battles and the internet
IoT is already here, with everything from wearable electronic devices to connected cars becoming readily available – how is the telecoms sector responding?
Jump in social network
What are the building blocks of social networks? Where do they come from and how are they structured?
Olivier Raviart - General Manager of Merkutio
Big companies and startups: from hackathon to platform economy
The networks of big companies and startups have never been so interconnected. How are they evolving and how will they work together in the future?
Muriel Monteiro - Partner at BearingPoint
Thintech, fattech and looking beyond bitcoin
How will blockchain revolutionise the transfer of assets? We brought together five thought leaders to share their thoughts, and six key areas emerged.
BNP Paribas International Hackathon 2016
Startup co-creation: streamlining the customer journey
The rise of Virtual Assistants
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence systems for use in virtual assistant technology in recent years underlines how it is increasingly helping people in their...
Shining a light on US smart cities
If urban residents are to get the services they require in the future, there will be a need to adopt 'smart city' practices.
Building the Future together
Over the past months, the Blockchain has been everywhere. Everyone has heard about it and progressively understands how revolutionary it is.
Marie-Caroline de Bignicourt
It's all about client experience
Corporate treasurers increasingly expect a comprehensive digital customer experience from their transaction banking partners: BCG and BNP Paribas.
Jacques Levet - Head of Transaction Banking EMEA at BNP Paribas
On-demand: the new model economy
The on-demand economy is now transforming companies and the job market - and disrupting traditional players across multiple sectors
Co-designing tomorrow's digital fund distribution platform
Digital levers are pushing the traditional asset management value chain towards new models.
Innovation Through Client Collaboration
Philippe Denis, CDO at BNP Paribas Securities Services, highlights different examples of co-development led by the bank jointly with the clients.
One good reason not to buy a jetcar
The blockchain is the flying car of finance - and it has finally arrived. But before we take the wheel, we need to figure out how to regulate its use.
Whither Blockchain?
Initiatives to industrialise distributed ledger technologies have to walk before they can run.
Digital Transformation at the Heart of Innovation
An interview with Dr Didier Bonnet, Global Practice Leader at Capgemini Consulting and co-author of "Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation"
Maintaining an Edge in the Digital Age
How is your organisation responding to the tide of digitalisation sweeping the industry? Rudi Collin highlights current trends and challenges.
Putting POBO into practice
In-house banks that use a payments-on-behalf-of (POBO) model can add value to the business.
