BNP Paribas CIB

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is the global investment banking arm of BNP Paribas, a French multinational bank. BNP Paribas CIB's main centres are in Paris and London, with large scale operations in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and smaller operations in almost every financial centre in the world. It employs 185,000 people across 56 countries and provides financing, advisory and capital markets services. BNP Paribas CIB is a globally recognised leader in two areas of expertise: trading derivatives on all asset classes, and structured financing.^[1] BNP Paribas CIB also has a large corporate advisory network in Europe and Asia. BNP Paribas CIB has 13,000 clients, consisting of companies, financial institutions, governments, investment funds and hedge funds.

BNP Paribas CIB

The Maison dorée, home to Parisian operations of BNP Paribas CIB, with the registered office of BNP Paribas in the background
Company type	Subsidiary of BNP Paribas
Industry	Financial services
Founded	23 May 2000
Products	Corporate banking Investment banking
Revenue	US$27.6 billion (2008)[1]
Total assets	€3.1 trillion (2010)
Number of employees	17,000 (2007)[2]
Website	cib.bnpparibas/en/

BNP Paribas CIB benefits from the Group's large asset base (over €2 trillion) and diverse business model, and was resilient in the 2008 financial crisis.^[1] Revenues from BNP Paribas CIB nearly doubled in the second quarter of 2009 as robust investor demand boosted revenues from the bank's fixed income trading business unit. CIB's revenues totaled €3.351 billion (US$4.82 billion) for the quarter, up 81 percent from the second quarter of 2008, and following record revenues of €3.696 billion in the first quarter of 2009.^[3]

Notable current and former employees

Business

• Nassim Taleb - Practitioner of financial mathematics, author of The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and Dynamic Hedging, and former BNP Paribas prop trader in New York.

Politics and public service

• Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou - considered by royalists as the head of the French Royal House.
• Jacques de Larosière - managing director of the International Monetary Fund (1978–87); Governor of the Banque de France (1987–93)
• Lorenz of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria-Este

Other

• David McWilliams - economist

See also

• Companies portal
• Banks portal

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• Primary dealers