The “HeforShe” campaign wa launched at a worldwide level when the actress Emma Watson addressed the United Nations in September 2014.

The aim of the “HeForShe” campaign, led by UN Women (the United Nations entity for gender equality and the emancipation of women) is for men to speak up and commit to gender equality at the international level.

 

 

Meanwhile, the UN Women National Committee in France launched the campaign in France on 27 March 2015, by involving around 25 leading figures (in politics, the media, culture, the business world, charitable organisations, institutions, and the academic world) as ambassadors for, and signatories of, the “HeForShe” commitment.

Jean Laurent Bonnafé, BNP Paribas’ Chief Executive Officer, said “I immediately agreed to be an ambassador for the HeForShe campaign”. To take the gender equality issue forward in a positive way, our world needs the commitment of men, as well as women. At BNP Paribas, we have followed a proactive gender equality policy for over 10 years. The indicators are improving every year, and we hope that for the younger generations who are joining our company now, this challenge will be part of the past”.

The key Gender Equality figures for BNP Paribas:

• BNP Paribas will be one of the first companies listed in the CAC 40 Index that has a Board of Directors equally divided between men and women as from 13 May 2015 (1)
• At the end of 2014, 25% of Senior Managers were women compared with 18.4% in 2011. 45.3% of the individuals appointed as Senior Managers in 2014 were women.
• BNP Paribas always hires slightly more women than men.
• We are seeing convergence between the average compensation paid to men and women in the 12 main types of positions at BNP Paribas.

BNP Paribas and Diversity: 10 years of commitment

BNP Paribas was one of the first banking groups to commit to a policy aimed at preventing discrimination and promoting diversity. The Bank included the risk of discrimination among its 30 major operational risks as from 2006.

BNP Paribas also ensures that all differences are respected and promoted. Its Diversity Policy is resolutely focused on promoting equality of opportunity and inclusion.

Since 2004, the Group’s Diversity Policy has been applied on a day-to-day basis via: the signing of agreements, diversity training to fight stereotypes, measures aimed at advancing professional gender equality, and at making the management team more international, a disability policy aimed at hiring and helping disabled people into jobs, partnerships with specialised voluntary organisations, and the support for “inclusion” provided by employee networks. The “Diversity” indicators are improving every year.

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About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas has a presence in 75 countries with more than 185,000 employees, including 145,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its two core activities: Retail Banking & Services (comprised of Domestic Markets and International Financial Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across Mediterranean basin countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia-Pacific.

The top 5 key trends in today’s global wine market:

• Exports have doubled over the past 20 years: with Europe maintaining its position as the global leader, exporting 58% of its annual production

• The newer wine-producing countries (New Zealand, Chile, Australia and South Africa) have increased their export volume by 370%

• The United States has overtaken France as the world’s foremost wine consumer, with average annual consumption of 12 litres per person

• Europe still accounts for 50% of wine consumption worldwide

• 84 of the 100 most famous wine brands in the world are French

For over 15 years, Agrifrance, a specialist division of BNP Paribas Wealth Management, has published an annual report on France’s rural economic situation, providing insights into rural property investment.

This year’s report focuses on the major changes that have taken place in the global wine market over the past 20 years such as the arrival of wines from the New World and the rise of new consumers.

“The wine market has become a real global market. Despite increasing competition, very few brands have succeeded in really imposing themselves at international level, and growth prospects in the ‘premium’ segment are very good,” underlined Benoit Léchenault, Head of Agrifrance, adding: “While the vineyard real estate market is still the province of an experienced clientele, it remains a highly attractive refuge value both for French and foreign investors.”

60 wine-producing and 242 wine-consuming countries

• Highly concentrated production

The 12 leading wine-growing countries account for 84% of worldwide production, estimated at 247 million hectolitres (equivalent to 37.2 billion bottles), a rise of just 2.2% over 20 years.

While wine production in Europe (in the lead with 59% of worldwide production) has stabilised at 146.6 million hectolitres, the newer wine-growing countries have increased their total volume by 48% over the same period. Chile, Australia and New Zealand have even seen their wine production rise by between 100% and 300%

Despite the tough competition that American, Argentinian, South African, Chilean, Australian and, Chinese wine growers have been creating for Europe, the traditional wine producing countries still remain the largest suppliers.

France, Italy and Spain have been alternating in first place, together accounting for some 47% of world wine production. In 2014, France regained world’s top spot in terms of production volume and maintained its position as world leader for value.

According to the British Liv-ex Fine Wine Index, 84 of the world’s 100 most famous wine brands are French. Given the rich diversity of its soil-types, climate and grapes, France is able to produce truly unique wines.

• Consumption: Americans become the leading wine-drinkers

World wine consumption has fallen by 13.8% since 1980, to stabilise at 239 million hectolitres in 2013.

Europeans still account for over 50% of world consumption but new consumers have appeared on the scene to ensure the continuing popularity of wine-drinking. Per capita, the United States has now overtaken France as the world’s leading wine market: where the average consumption is 12 litres per person per year.

The economic crisis and the rising price of wine have had a strong impact on wine consumption in Europe, prompting European wine growers to adopt a more global strategy of targeting other continents, mainly Asia and North America.

• Exports: increase in value rather than volume

Wine exports, which account for 35% of all production worldwide, have almost doubled during the last 20 years. The rise in export value over this period (+87%) has outpaced the increase in volume (+63%).

Europe still maintains its positions as global leader, exporting 58% of its total wine production.

Meanwhile the new wine producing countries – New Zealand, Chile, Australia and South Africa – have oriented their sales strategy strongly towards world markets and currently export over 50% of their total production volumes.

The upmarket segment continues to have the most promising export prospects for French producers. American consumers are becoming the leading customers for French wines in value terms, now accounting for some 20% of France’s market for wines and spirits.

While the average world price for exported wines was EUR2.62 per litre in 2011, French wines command an average price of EUR7 per litre, with Bordeaux wines selling at EUR9.7, Burgundy wines at EUR10.6 and wines from the Champagne region at around EUR15 per litre.

 

For more key figures or to visualize the key findings, consult our website.

 

About Agrifrance

Agrifrance is the specialist rural property section of BNP Paribas Wealth Management, offering clients seeking the right investment and wealth management solutions the benefit of its over 40-year experience in the viticulture, farming, forestry and prestigious homes markets. With its network of recognised professionals, Agrifrance is also able to provide complementary services such as expertise in and management of rural properties.

About BNP Paribas Wealth Management

BNP Paribas Wealth Management is the sixth largest Private Bank in the world, with a presence in some 30 countries. Over 6,000 Wealth Management professionals located across all major world financial centres provide private investors with a wide range of tailored solutions in order to manage their assets for optimal results. At end-2014, BNP Paribas Wealth Management had €305 billion worth of assets under management.

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For the second year running, BNP Paribas is running a series of ‘Job Mobility Days’ from 13 to 30 April. This year, events designed to encourage internal career mobility will be taking place in 30 countries where the Group does business, up from 13 countries in 2014.

During a period of three weeks, over 100 in-house events will be held across the BNP Paribas Group, including a Jobs Forum in France, Germany, Portugal, Turkey and the New York, USA offices; CV-writing workshops in Belgium, Burkina Faso, Hungary and elsewhere; interview technique workshops in Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco et al; career-theme conferences such as ‘Journey to the Centre of Your Skills’ in Belgium, ‘Mobility Days Corner’ in Spain, ‘Get to Know the Group’ in Italy, ‘Creating Your Network’ in the UK, ‘Steering Your Career Path’ in the Middle East; and a ‘Job Mobility Village’ in Senegal. BNP Paribas staff are encouraged to share their experiences of these events on Twitter, using the hashtag #MobDays15.

 

Internal career mobility central to the BNP Paribas ‘employer promise’

Employees at any company are keen to grow their skills and progress, and this is one of the eight basic promises which the BNP Paribas Group makes to its staff. In 2014, half of our staff had been in their current position for less than three years, which gives an indication of the range and variety of career opportunities across the Group. BNP Paribas is determined to offer every employee the chance to grow and diversify his/her work experience by making job moves across the Bank’s various geographies and/or businesses.

Explains Yves Martrenchar, BNP Paribas Group Head of Human Resources: “As ‘the bank for a changing world’, we are committed to being more agile and proactive, which makes it absolutely essential to recruit the most talented people and enable them to grow with us. Our staff are looking for stimulating careers with the prospect of progress. And they have every right to expect this from a Group with an integrated, diversified business model that has permanent establishments in 75 countries.”

In February this year, BNP Paribas was awarded, for the second time, certification as one of the ‘Top Employers Europe’, in recognition of the Group’s high quality HR policies.

 

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About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas has a presence in 75 countries with more than 185,000 employees, including 145,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its two core activities: Retail Banking & Services (comprised of Domestic Markets and International Financial Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across Mediterranean basin countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia-Pacific.

The Board of Directors of BNP Paribas today appointed Jean Lemierre as Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

He succeeds Baudouin Prot, who informed the Board of Directors on 26 September of his decision to step down as Chairman and Director from the 1st December 2014.

With the other members of the Board, Jean Lemierre will oversee the implementation of the Group’s business development plan as well as the reinforcement of its governance and of its internal control measures put in place in recent months.

Since September 2008, Jean Lemierre has acted as advisor to BNP Paribas and as its international representative with regulators as well as economic and political leaders.

Before joining BNP Paribas, he carried out two mandates as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2000-2008). In addition, he served as Head of the French Treasury (1995-2000).

 

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas has a presence in 75 countries with more than 180,000 employees, including 140,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across Mediterranean basin countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia-Pacific.

 

Press contact:

Cesaltine Gregorio                  +1.212.841.3719                     cesaltine.gregorio@us.bnpparibas.com

 

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New name and governance focusing on the needs of corporate and institutional clients.

More integrated offer of solutions for institutional clients with BNP Paribas Securities Services and a newly created Global Markets.

A simplified regional approach with two new regions (EMEA and Americas) in addition to the existing APAC region and a simpler organisation for seamless service to corporate clients.

BNP Paribas announces today a new governance for its Corporate and Institutional Banking division, previously called Corporate and Institutional Banking. This new CIB is centered on two client franchises, corporates and institutionals.

To best serve institutional clients with a comprehensive range of solutions, BNP Paribas Securities Services comes under the governance of the new CIB, while remaining a separate legal entity.

This new CIB also aims to promote dialogue between institutional and corporate clients, thanks to a more collaborative and efficient structure, which will facilitate the implementation of the Group’s business development plan.

In addition, to simplify the regional approach, the North and Latin America regions, and the Europe and MEA regions, will be combined to create two larger regions: Americas and EMEA. The APAC region remains unchanged.

In EMEA a simpler organization for seamless service for corporate clients will be structured around: Corporate Clients Financing and Advisory EMEA on one side, and Country Management and Corporate Trade and Treasury Solutions EMEA, on the other side.

BNP Paribas CIB is a leading provider of financial solutions to corporate and institutional clients worldwide and this new governance will strengthen its existing strong franchises in Transaction Banking, Specialized Financing, Derivatives, Advisory and Capital Markets where it is a top European house in ECM and a global leader in DCM.

 

Institutional clients globally: a collaborative approach to increase depth of service

In order to provide to our institutional clients a wider access to the best of BNP Paribas CIB’s products and services, and to position the Bank as their strategic partner, the solutions provided by BNP Paribas CIB will now be structured around:

• A newly created Global Markets which will provide an offer across all asset classes, building on global business lines, financing and prime services capabilities, and regional franchises. A solid presence in the regions will be key to support BNP Paribas CIB’s regional development plans.
• BNP Paribas Securities Services will continue offering its current spectrum of solutions and will remain a separate legal entity, with its own commercial and operational autonomy.
• Financial Institutions Coverage will offer global coverage for all CIB and other Group businesses across all institutional client segments.

 

Corporate clients in EMEA: a simpler governance for seamless service

For its corporate clients, BNP Paribas CIB offers facilitated relations and the benefit of its entire range of solutions: a well-established geographic presence and local expertise; the know-how of its coverage bankers and product experts; a robust, industrialized flow banking platform.

In line with the creation of the EMEA region, the activities dedicated to the corporate clientele are grouped into two business lines:

Corporate Clients Financing and Advisory EMEA will bring all of BNP Paribas CIB’s expertise to address the investment and financing needs of CIB’s corporate clients. This business line will group all types of Coverage, the Financing businesses and Corporate Finance.

Country Management and Corporate Trade and Treasury Solutions EMEA will deliver a transversal and industrialized platform for our corporate clients’ flow banking needs. This group will include Energy and Commodities Finance Europe, Trade and Banking Flow, Cash Management, Corporate Deposit Line, Trade and Deposit Product Development.

Yann Gérardin, head of BNP Paribas CIB, stated: “The banking industry has changed dramatically, and not only in terms of regulations. Business models are being industrialized, rationalized, digitalized. Clients are expecting us to serve them holistically with added-value and industrialized solutions. Our new CIB focusing on our two client franchises of corporates and institutionals will allow us to meet their expectations more simply and more efficiently. And it will also reinforce our capacity to achieve our development plans as announced earlier this year.”

 

Appointments

To support this strategic initiative, BNP Paribas announces the following appointments (effective 5 January 2015):

–   In addition to his current responsibilities, Jean-Yves Fillion is appointed head of the Americas for CIB.

–   Thomas Mennicken is appointed Head of Corporate Clients Financing and Advisory EMEA, under the supervision of Thierry Varène, appointed Chairman of Corporate Clients Financing and Advisory EMEA. Thierry Varène will maintain the steering responsibility of the commercial activities for the largest clients. Thomas Mennicken will maintain his current responsibilities at BNP Paribas Fortis CIB.

Reporting to Thomas Mennicken are:

• Yannick Jung who is appointed Head of Corporate Coverage EMEA
• Bruno Tassart who is appointed Head of Financing Solutions EMEA
• Sophie Javary who is appointed Head of Corporate Finance EMEA

–   Marc Carlos is appointed Head of Country Management and Corporate Trade and Treasury Solutions EMEA. Marc Carlos will maintain his responsibility, at Group level, as head of the global USD clearing and payment business line.

–   Thierry Varène and Marc Carlos in his EMEA role will report to Yann Gérardin while Thomas Mennicken will report to Thierry Varène.

–   Henri Foch is appointed Head of Financial Institutions Coverage globally and will report to Yann Gérardin.

–   Patrick Colle continues as Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Securities Services and will report to Yann Gérardin. Jacques d’Estais remains Chairman of the supervisory board of BNP Paribas Securities Services.

–   Yann Gérardin, in addition to his role as Head of BNP Paribas CIB, will manage directly Global Markets. Reporting to him are:

• Olivier Osty appointed Head of Sales, Structuring and Trading; Capital Markets business line heads will report to Olivier Osty.
• In the regions:
• Pascal Fischer is appointed Head of EMEA Capital Markets; he will coordinate the Global Markets geographies and manage key transversal projects; he reports to Yann Gérardin.
• Pierre Rousseau is appointed Head of APAC Capital Markets and reports to Yann Gérardin and Eric Raynaud.
• Bob Hawley is appointed Head of Americas Capital Markets and reports to Yann Gérardin and Jean-Yves Fillion.

In the context of BNP Paribas setting up Global Markets, headed directly by Yann Gérardin, new Head of CIB, it was agreed with Frédéric Janbon that he would be appointed Special Advisor to the Group General Management.

Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas, commented: “I would like to express my utmost gratitude to Frédéric for his contribution to the development of our global Fixed Income platform over the past nine years.”

 

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas has a presence in 75 countries with more than 180,000 employees, including more than 140,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal

Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across Mediterranean basin countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment

Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in

Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia- Pacific.

 

Press contact:

Cesaltine Gregorio          +1.212.841.3719                        cesaltine.gregorio@us.bnpparibas.com

 

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Paris, San Francisco, 24^th September 2014 – L’Atelier BNP Paribas has announced the appointment of Nathalie Doré as the CEO of its San Francisco-based American subsidiary. She is succeeding Sergi Herrero. Nathalie Doré will report to Louis Treussard, CEO of L’Atelier BNP Paribas, whose President is Olivier Dulac.

Nathalie Doré, aged 39, who holds a French Master’s Degree (DESS) in Marketing and a BA in Business from Dublin City University (Ireland), began her career in 1998 in marketing at CETELEM. She then joined the team of L’Atelier BNP Paribas in 2001 as head of Events and as head of International Business Development until 2010. For 4 years, Nathalie was the global head of Digital Marketing and E-Business Europe at BNP Paribas Cardif, the insurance subsidiary of the BNP Paribas Group with a presence in 37 countries.

“Nathalie’s return to L’Atelier is very good news, as I am well aware of her energy and her passion for all things digital. She will be able to develop this enthusiasm within L’Atelier BNP Paribas’ American team and to enhance the synergies that are the source of our model’s value; her experience in the insurance sector strengthens her considerable expertise in current topics such as e-health, the Internet of Things, big data and digital transformation”, Louis Treussard said. “Our entity has three missions: to share the latest trends in Silicon Valley with our corporate clients (watch), to advise them on how to integrate these trends into their strategy (consulting), and lastly, to take the next step by helping them to work with startups (labs). I have every confidence in the future of our San Francisco subsidiary and that it will continue to lead the field through its digital watch process in this very dynamic region”.

L’Atelier: Accelerating innovation

For 35 years, L’Atelier BNP Paribas has identified breakthrough innovations that signal changes for companies, and has helped them to transform these innovations into concrete, operational projects. L’Atelier scouts the new territory of technological innovation in all sectors (including finance, health, large retailers, and automotive, among others) to identify emerging practices. The uniqueness of its technology watch process is based on its presence in Paris, San Francisco and Shanghai and on its open architecture approach to operating worldwide. L’Atelier is a media content producer (website, radio, TV), and a crossroads for the exchange and sharing of information (conferences and study tours), as well as a provider of digital strategy consulting for companies. L’Atelier Lab’s open innovation approach completes the package by bringing innovative entrepreneurs and major corporations together to accelerate the development of their shared projects.

BNP Paribas CIB names Paul Mortimer-Lee Chief Economist North America, maintains his role as Global Head of Market Economics

BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) announced today the appointment of Paul Mortimer-Lee to Chief Economist for North America.

Based in New York, this new role is in addition to his current responsibilities as Global Head of Market Economics. “In this context, Paul will report to the BNP Paribas Group Chief Economist William De Vijlder, and locally to Bob Hawley, Head of Fixed Income Americas.”

Until recently, Paul was based in London where he was responsible for the global economic coverage by the bank’s team of market economists around the world.

“Paul brings many years’ experience and tremendous knowledge of the global markets to his new role. With the challenge of a historically low rates environment and heightened geo-political uncertainty,” said Bob Hawley commenting on the appointment, “we believe this will be particularly valuable to our local North America clients as part of the broader BNP Paribas platform.”

Paul has been instrumental in supporting our clients by covering the financial crisis, the US slowdown, global inflation and global imbalances. He has also closely followed the operations of monetary policy at the zero lower bund for rates, the de-coupling of growth between the Eurozone and the North Atlantic economies and exit policies.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas in 1995, Paul spent many years in what is now the Monetary Analysis Division at the Bank of England where he was Division Head for forecasting and conjunctural analysis. He also worked on regulation and in the Markets division of the BoE.  Paul also held positions at the IMF.

He is a regular contributor for the Nikkei newspaper and television commentator.  He holds a MSc in Monetary Economics from the London School of Economics.

 

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas has a presence in 80 countries with more than 180,000 employees, including more than 140,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across Mediterranean basin countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia-Pacific.

 

Press contacts:

Cesaltine Gregorio, cesaltine.gregorio@yus.bnpparibas.com, +1 212 841 3719

Mylene Benmoussa, mylene.benmoussa@us.bnpparibas.com, +1 212 841 2351