Our strategy centres on three complementary areas of activity – Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB). The synergies between our lines of financial business and across our increasingly global footprint, and the balance sheet strength our diversified model creates mean that we are very well placed to rise to the challenges that our clients set us.
- Our Retail Banking operations focus on our four domestic markets of France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg, with further retail franchises around the world.
- Our Investment Solutions arm is a global operation concerned with managing, growing, protecting and administering savings and assets for private clients, high net-worth individuals, corporates and institutions.
- Our Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) arm is one of the largest of its kind in the world, focusing on delivering financial and strategic solutions covering major corporate transactions, and activity in the world’s financial markets.
At BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking, our success has been built on strong risk management, the stability that comes from being part of one of the world’s largest banks, and a knowledge-based culture that prizes technical sophistication, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. These qualities have enabled us to propel ourselves from the position of leading European investment bank to a bank with an increasingly global presence and strength in all the major financial markets. Our acquisition of Fortis Bank will further strengthen our European dominance and enhance our platform for international growth.
We work as trusted advisors to clients that include governments, corporations, financial institutions and investors. We have one of the most comprehensive international networks in corporate and investment banking today, and are acknowledged as world leaders in derivatives, structured products, capital markets and specialised finance.
Throughout BNP Paribas CIB, our primary focus is our clients and their needs and goals. Concentrating on these, and applying our renowned technical strength and entrepreneurial mindset to resolving our clients’ financial and strategic challenges has powered our success – and will be at the heart of our ongoing strategy.
We will continue to develop, structure and launch new products and lead first-of-a-kind transactions in pursuit of greater returns for our clients and ourselves. As innovators and trailblazers, we respond to our clients’ needs inventively and individually, devising imaginative bespoke solutions that are often ambitious, radical and pioneering but that never loses track of the clients’ goal. We have concentrated on our particular strengths to forge our own path in the world of global corporate and investment banking and we are proud to lead the way.
Our success is underpinned by the quality, ambition and creativity of the people who work in our businesses and they will be the key to realising our future plans. People are, in essence, our competitive advantage. That’s why, each year, we pay particular attention to our global graduate intake. Our graduates today will be the leaders of our businesses tomorrow and we aim to ensure that they have the best possible opportunities to gain valuable experience, acquire new skills and build rewarding, international careers.
For graduates who are ambitious, entrepreneurial and analytically-minded, BNP Paribas CIB offers one of the most exciting career opportunities available today – the opportunity to join a resilient, successful, innovative organisation that is growing fast and which operates at the cutting-edge of global corporate and investment banking.
