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ISIN code: FR0000131104
Sector: Finance
Industry: Major banks
Le actions of BNP Paribas are listed on the Euronext Paris index under the ticker BNP.
See the share price history on Euronext Paris
Company Description
BNP Paribas is a French international banking group. The bank was established in 2000 by merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. It is one of the four major French international banks along with Crédit Agricole, Société Générale and Groupe BPCE. It is the largest bank in Europe and the seventh largest bank in the world by total assets. BNP Paribas has been considered a systemically important bank since Financial Stability Board.
It operates in over 70 countries. The main markets are Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. It has approximately 200.000 employees and over 30 million customers. In France alone, BNP Paribas operates one of the largest retail banking networks with 2.200 branches and over 3.200 ATMs.
The Group offers savings and investment instruments, insurance-pension products, private banking, mortgages, consumer credit, e-banking services and products and services for companies.
The activities of the BNP Paribas Group are organized around two business areas: Retail Banking & Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).
The largest revenues come from the Retail sector (56,4%) followed by Corporate & Investment Banking (30,8%). Geographically, the largest revenues come from Europe (72,2%) followed by North America (12,9%), Asia-Pacific (8,6%) and other countries (6,3%).
BNP Paribas is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and is included in the CAC40 index. It is also part of the Euro Stoxx 50 index. It has listings in Milan, Frankfurt, London and New York.
THEshareholders is composed as follows:
- Belgian Government, (through SFPI), 7,7%
- Blackrock Inc., 6,0%
- BNP Paribas SA Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 4,3%
- Norges Bank Investment Management, 2,45%
- The Vanguard Group, 2,25%
- Lyxor International Asset Management SAS, 2,08%
- Dodge & Cox, 2,00%
- Government of Luxembourg, 1,00%
- Individual shares, 4,2%
- institutional investors are distributed as follows:
- European institutional investors, 43,4%
- International institutional investors, 31,4%
Turnover in 2020 was 44,275 billion euros with a net profit of 7,067 billion.
At the end of 2020, BNP Paribas managed €941 billion of deposits and €809,5 billion of loans.
In Italy the group has been present since 1967 with BNP and since 1979 with Paribas. In 2006 it acquired BNL (Banca Nazionale del Lavoro) one of the largest Italian banking groups with approximately 2,5 million private customers.
In Italy, in addition to BNL, the group controls these companies:
- Banca Ucb, specialized in the disbursement of real estate mortgages
- Arval, specialized in long-term vehicle rental and innovative mobility solutions
- Findomestic, an institute specializing in household credit for the purchase of goods and services for private use.
- HelloBank!, online bank
- Artigiancassa, specialized in the management of public funds.
- Axepta, dedicated to the management of payment transactions made with POS.
- BNP Paribas Asset Management, brand of asset management services.
- Cardif Assicurazioni develops and distributes insurance products.
- BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, specialized in medium-term financing solutions.
- BNP Paribas Real Estate, one of the largest European real estate services providers.
- Securities Services, operates in the securities service for assets in custody.
- Servizio Italia deals with trusteeship services for third party assets.
Abroad the subsidiaries of the BNP Paribas Group I'm:
- BNP Paribas France
- Bank of Britain
- Cetelem Bank
- Cortal Consor
- BancWest (Bank of the West & First Hawaiian Bank)
- BNP Paribas Hong Kong
- Atisreal
- BNP Paribas Arbitrage
- FundQuest
- BMCI (Banque Marocaine pour le Commerce et l'Industrie)
- L’Atelier
- BNP Paribas Bulgaria
- BNP Paribas El Djazaïr
- Turk Ekonomi Bankasi
- BNP Paribas Fortis
- BGL BNP Paribas
- Sahara Bank
- Ukrsibbank
- BCI Mer Rouge Djibouti
- Banque de Wallis et Futuna
- Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie du Sénégal
- Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas
- Alfred Berg
- Consors Finanz
The tagline is «The bank for a changing world».
Economic and financial analysis of the company
BNP Paribas was born from the merger of the Banque nationale de Paris (BNP) with the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas) in 2000.
BNP was created in 1966 from the merger of two French banks, the Banque nationale pour le commerce et l'industrie (BNCI) and the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP). Paribas, on the other hand, was established in 1872 from the merger of two merchant banks in Paris and Amsterdam.
In 2006, BNP Paribas acquires the Banca Nazionale del Laboro (BNL), sixth Italian bank. First buy from Unipol sells its stake by purchasing 48% and subsequently launches a tender offer on the total share capital. For BNP Paribas, BNL represented an opportunity to expand its client base by acquiring a second large retail market after the French one.
As of October 2008, BNP acquires 75% of Fortis Bank in Belgium, in return the Belgian government becomes the main shareholder of the new group. born BNP Paribas Fortis.
In May 2009, the group becomes the majority shareholder (65,96%) of BGL (Fortis Bank Luxembourg); the State of Luxembourg held 34%, effectively making BNP the largest bank in the eurozone by deposits held. The bank's corporate name is changed to BGL BNP Paribas.
In February 2010 BGL BNP Paribas becomes the 100% owner of BNP Paribas Luxembourg through a merger by incorporation.
In 2010 it acquired 75% of Findomestic, Italian bank specializing in consumer credit, through its subsidiary BNP Personal Finance.
In 2011, through BNL, it entered the share capital of For Micro, the main Italian microcredit operator and acquires 100% of the Findomestic capital.
In 2013 the BNP Paribas Group and the Rabobank Group I reach an agreement for the sale of the 98,5% stake controlled by Rabobank in Bank Gospodarki Żywnościowej (BGŻ Bank) for the sum of 1 billion euros.
Online banking is launched in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Austria HelloBank!.
In 2017, the Group, through BNP Paribas Cardif, reach an agreement with Ageas to acquire full ownership of Cargeas Assicurazioni.
As of February 2021 sells Cargeas insurance to Intesa Sanpolo for 390 million euros.
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