BNP Paribas is a 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 institutions, Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. It also incorporates many other major institutions from successive mergers and acquisitions, including Fortis Group in Belgium, Direkt Anlage Bank in Germany, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Italy, Banque Générale du Luxembourg in Luxembourg, and Türk Ekonomi Bankası in Turkey. The Group has also been present in the United States through its subsidiaries Bank of the West until 2023 and First Hawaiian Bank until 2019. With 190,000 employees, the bank is organized into three major business areas: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services (CPBS); Investment & Protection Services (IPS); and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).
The headquarters of BNP Paribas in Paris
The Maison dorée, home to Parisian operations of BNP Paribas CIB, with the registered office of BNP Paribas in the background
Former headquarters of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Rome
BNP Paribas London Trading Floor
The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, generally referred to from 1982 as Paribas, was a French investment bank based in Paris. In May 2000, it merged with the Banque Nationale de Paris to form BNP Paribas.
Urban mansion at Herengracht 539 in Amsterdam, formerly seat of the NCDB founded in 1863
Hotel de Mondragon at 3 rue d'Antin in Paris, successively seat of the Banque de Paris (from 1869), Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (from 1872), and BNP Paribas (since 2000)
Advertisement for a Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas issued war bond from 1918
