BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is the global

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arm of

BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (; sometimes referred to as BNPP or BNP) is a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris. It was founded in 2000 from the merger of two of France's foremost financial instituti ...

, a French multinational bank. BNP Paribas CIB's main centres are in

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and

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, with large scale operations in

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, and

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, and smaller operations in almost every financial centre in the world. It employs 185,000 people across 56 countries and provides

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, advisory and

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services. BNP Paribas CIB is a globally recognised leader in two areas of expertise: trading derivatives on all

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, and structured financing.Biz Journals
BNP Paribas CIB also has a large corporate advisory network in

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and

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

. BNP Paribas CIB has 13,000 clients, consisting of companies, financial institutions, governments, investment funds and hedge funds. BNP Paribas CIB benefits from the

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's large asset base (over €2 trillion) and diverse business model, and was resilient in the

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. 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.

Notable current and former employees

Business

Nassim Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness ...

- Practitioner of

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, author of The Black Swan,

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and Dynamic Hedging, and former

prop trader in

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 Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu (; born 12 November 1929) is a French former civil servant who served as the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1993 to 1998. He previously served as the governor of the Banque ...

- managing director of the

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(1978–87); Governor of the Banque de France (1987–93) * Lorenz of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria-Este

Notable current and former employees

Business

Politics and public service

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