So that’s your technology nugget, but the media story of the moment is causing nearly as much discussion. An empty interview occurred in the German Handelsblatt newspaper.

Securities Services global head wants to develop the firm’s expertise before integration, believes the firm will expand in Asia

The French bank reveals that the continuing deregulation of the Renminbi will mean that it will look to increase its services in Asia.

BNP Paribas reveals at Sibos in Canada that it has extended its collateral management for centrally cleared OTC derivatives

BNP Paribas CEO of Securities Services reveals that it will expand services and headcount in Asia as it looks to double revenue from non – European services

Statement from BNP Paribas designed to calm fears has led some analysts to further question if the bank’s management understands the risk it faces

Deutsche leads the way; BNP and Goldman make good progress

The bank hasn’t pushed too hard into marquee investment banking businesses; Shareholders stand to benefit from a low cost-income ratio and high returns

The trickle of Q3 results continues with interim numbers released by Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Lloyds and, late in the week, RBS.

The French bank swam against the tide – and won – with products such as equity volatility swaps, while maintaining a process involving transparency, suitability and risk control.

BNP Paribas has had another outstanding year in project finance and is a driving force in every sector and region of this market. The French bank is Euromoney’s best global project finance house for the second year running and has spent the past 12 months cementing its leading position in this business. In addition to a top-five ranking in the global league tables, the bank has been at the forefront of innovation during the year as well. But the nature of project finance has changed dramatically over the past couple of years and project finance banks have had to change with it.

Spencer Lake, HSBC: The European debt crisis

BNP Paribas and Société Générale both broke into the top six of banks catering for non-financial institutions in this year’s FX survey. Trevor Carr reports.

BNP Paribas’ push into prime brokerage took another step forward in January when it was announced it had signed up as an EBS FX prime bank. "Joining EBS as a prime bank is an important part of BNP Paribas’ strategy to build out our prime brokerage offering. Our ambition is to become a top five FX house globally and our prime brokerage business is a vital part of realizing that ambition. Our current strength and potential for future growth in FX prime brokerage stems from factors including our strong balance sheet and a credit rating that makes us a particularly desirable counterparty," says Nathaniel Litwak, the bank’s head of marketing for FX prime brokerage.

Record number of funds seek cash; Debt appetite returns

BNP Paribas: The model that worked

By absorbing Fortis, BNP Paribas emerges as the rising star in the eurozone. The crisis has validated the bank’s business model and its risk management. But its long-serving leadership team remains cautious in its moment of triumph and wary of what regulators might impose. Peter Lee reports.

BNP Paribas leads the way on state repayment; Are other banks looking to do too much, too soon?

The sub-prime crisis has presented opportunities for institutions whose balance sheets have been left relatively intact to boost their trading operations, not least in foreign exchange. Several, such as Canada’s CIBC and Japan’s Nomura, have already started to build out their FX businesses, while the market is still waiting to see how existing heavyweights HSBC and JPMorgan will evolve. BNP Paribas is another player that market participants might be wise to watch.

BNP Paribas has hired Margaret Ren, one of the original China banking rainmakers, as chairman and chief executive of corporate finance, Greater China. Ren, most recently head of China Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch, made her reputation for her ability to use her connections in China to land big deals for her employers, first Bear Stearns and then Citigroup, where she worked until 2004. Those deals included getting Bear Stearns, which had little China presence at the time, on to big equity mandates for China Telecom and Guangshen Railway.

BNP Paribas: The French bank has been adept at finding new sources of finance in a tight market and succeeding with difficult deals

Fortis acquisition gives unprecedented scale; Organic growth continues in France, Italy

Moscow-headquartered investment bank Renaissance Capital has teamed up with France’s BNP Paribas to offer investors a diversified form of structured equity exposure to the Russian market.

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Widespread speculation about the likely purchaser of Bank of America’s equity prime brokerage business has come to an end.

BNP Paribas is presenting MillionTreesNYC in New York, a citywide, public-private scheme with the goal of planting and caring for a million trees across New York’s five boroughs over the next 10 years. Introduced as one of mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 127 PlaNYC initiatives to create a healthier, sustainable city, MillionTreesNYC will increase the city’s tree-count by 20%.

A merger of BNP Paribas and Société Générale would be difficult to fund and to execute.

Daniel Bouton of Société Générale, Baudouin Prot of BNP Paribas, Walter Rothensteiner of Raiffeisen Zentralbank and Alfredo Sáenz of Santander speak about the challenges in the new financial world order.

Guy Hart, head of ABS syndicate at BNP Paribas, is understood to be leaving the French bank. Hart has been at BNP Paribas since joining from Nomura in 1998. He is a victim of the bank’s projected business levels for next year. With so much less activity expected for 2008 in ABS and CDOs, BNP Paribas’ structured finance division has been trimmed. Accompanying Hart out of the door will be Christos Danias, head of European CDOs and fellow CDO structurer William Ma, who only joined the bank last January from Moody’s.