First half 2005 Substantial rise in profitability – Net income group share EUR 3,176 MN (+ 27.5%) – Annualised ROE after-tax 21.8% (+ 2.8 pts) Second quarter 2005 A new rise in revenues and net income – Net banking income…

BNP Paribas’ global equity capital increase for employees this year was another big success. Employee share subscriptions totalled Euros 211.5 million and 53% of employees subscribed to the issue. The employee share subscriptions include their part of the French profit…

Cardif, subsidiary of BNP Paribas Assurance, was elected “Best financial institution 2004” in the Life Insurer category in Poland. For an award ceremony organized by “Rzeczpospolita”, Poland’s national daily, winners were nominated by a jury which included the Minister of…

Cardif, a life insurance company with BNP Paribas Assurance, works through partner networks to distribute Creditor Insurance1 in 28 countries and totals 29 million policyholders worldwide. As the 3rd Creditor Insurance provider worldwide, Cardif detains essential insight on this area…

Danka France, provider of print and document solutions, is the top independent office technology distribution group in France and is ranked second in the world for copiers. It has signed an exclusive branding agreement with the BNP Paribas Lease Group.This…

Strong Rise in Revenues and ProfitsNet Banking Income: EUR 5.6 BN (+19.3% *)Net Income Group Share: EUR 1.7 BN (+56.4% *) Strong Growth Across All Core Businesses FRB Accelerating revenue growth trending towards 5%due to new sales and marketing systems…

BNP Paribas is the no. 1 company in the Euro Zone and the 10th worldwide according to the corporate governance index published by the FTSE Group and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The target of this ranking of corporate governance published…

The IPO by French toll highway operator SANEF has raised Ä900 million for 24% of the capital stock in a combined offering of new shares to individuals and institutional investors. The institutional tranche was about 14 times oversubscribed at a…

Vivien Lévy-Garboua, who was appointed head of compliance for BNP Paribas in January 2005, has opted to refrain from serving as chairman of any board. Consequently, at the close of Klépierre’s annual shareholders’ meeting on April 7, 2005, Mr. Lévy-Garboua…

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), one of the largest listed holding companies in Europe and one of Belgium’s top ten companies (with a market capitalisation of EUR 9.7bn), has successfully issued a EUR 435m exchangeable bond into treasury shares, maturing on…