Tagged: bnp paribas

July 10, 2022 @ 10:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sonovate, the provider of embedded finance and payment solutions for the contingent workforce, announced that it has completed a securitization deal with BNP Paribas and M&G Investments, “adding £165 million to its funding structure.” The deal is “an endorsement of Sonovate’s position as a Fintech… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) and Matter, a Danish Fintech specializing in sustainability insights, recently announced the launch of ‘SDG Fundamentals’, an innovative data solution. This dataset “enables investors to analyze the extent to which company[1] revenues are aligned – or misaligned – with… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) has reportedly made its first investment in a Fintech VC fund managed by Anthemis. The investment is being made via the French banking institution’s Global Markets Strategic Investments division, which actively invests in high-growth Fintech firms. It further solidifies the existing… Read More

April 13, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hogan Lovells has reportedly become the first law firm “to implement an ecosystem-scale document and contract automation technology which will drive efficiencies within commercial transactions for clients.” The blockchain or DLT-enabled technology platform, DriveChain, is “now available to firm clients across all sectors and industries.”… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Securities Services has reportedly carried out a technical proof of concept  for mutual fund transfers via tech provider fundsonchain‘s settlement platform. The fundsonchain platform supports the complete fund processing by automating it through end-to-end processing of tokenized fund shares, based on distributed ledger… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

BNP Paribas Securitizaties Services, part of BNP Paribas the bank – the largest bank in France and one of the largest banks in the world, has issued a statement explaining their point of view as to how blockchain (or distributed ledger technology – DLT) and… Read More

March 15, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank, the financial group in Spain, and BNP Paribas 3 Step IT have announced a new partnership, giving CaixaBank’s professional clients “access to innovative and sustainable IT solutions for the first time.” As noted in the update, CaixaBank will offer its clients – corporate, mid-market,… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zhikai Chen, Head of Asia Equities at BNP Paribas Asset Management, notes that a number of factors justify their hopes for “a better year after the challenges that 2021 brought to Asian equities, and northern Asian equities in particular.” Chen writes in a blog post… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas, China Construction Bank (Asia), DBS, MUFG, Societe Generale and Standard Chartered have all joined the iLex platform to “accelerate the digitization of corporate loan markets.” The 6 global syndicated loan book runners are joining iLex as partner banks in order to support “innovation… Read More

December 2, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) has reportedly announced several appointments within its Sustainability Centre in order to accelerate and strengthen its sustainable investment offering. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “At the core of BNPP AM’s approach to sustainability, the Sustainability Centre… Read More

November 26, 2021 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

BNP Paribas has partnered with SIA, a European payment tech company, to support the launch of co-branded cards with major commercial partners in France and other European countries. SIA’s technology infrastructure will process digital and physical co-branded cards issued by BNP Paribas. The SIA platform… Read More

July 23, 2021 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InvestCloud, a global Fintech company that designs and creates financial software for established banks, wealth managers and asset managers, has been chosen by BNP Paribas Wealth Management to offer Client Relationship Management (CRM) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) services for onboarding and “nurturing” high-net-worth (HNWI)… Read More

July 2, 2021 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP), a French international banking group that’s ranked as the 8th largest bank in the world in terms of total assets (appr. €2 trillion), is partnering with financial solutions provider FIS (NYSE: FIS). Through the partnership, BNP Paribas will be extending support… Read More

February 3, 2021 @ 8:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management and the CAIA Association and Hong Kong-based Liquefy have released a research paper covering how tokenization may be used to offer improved access to illiquid alternative investments. The joint paper explains how tokenization may have a lot of potential for use… Read More

January 27, 2021 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP), a French international banking group that’s ranked as the 8th largest bank in the world in terms of total assets (appr. €2 trillion), will be providing its Visa Premier cardholders the opportunity to update to a contactless fingerprint option for a… Read More

November 10, 2020 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

auxmoney, a marketplace lending platform that serves both private and institutional investors, is leveraging €500 Million from BNP Paribas to invest in loans originated on the marketplace. auxmoney said it is taking the next big step on its way to becoming one of the leading… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 9:00 am By Emma Channing  |  

Back in December, I wrote a piece for Coindesk’s Year in Review 2019 entitled “Security Token Offerings Are (Finally) Set for Takeoff in 2020”.  This was before word of COVID-19 became widespread and before many of the cataclysmic events of 2020 were even imaginable.  Thus… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 1:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

  BNP Paribas Securities Services has partnered with Curv to complete a proof of concept on the transfer of security tokens (digital securities) securely between market participants. BNP Paribas Securities Services and Curv used the ERC1400 token standard. According to BNP Paribas, the test saw… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Services division of France’s BNP Paribas, the 8th largest bank in the world in terms of total assets, has teamed up with Digital Asset (the company) to implement distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled trade and settlement applications. Through its partnership with Digital Asset (the… Read More

July 24, 2020 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas, a French international banking group that’s ranked as the 8th largest bank in the world in terms of total assets (appr. €2 trillion), will reportedly become an anchor client in the European Union for tech giant IBM’s Cloud for Financial Services framework. The… Read More