Martin B. Cracknell

BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV (UK) (BNP Paribas Fortis UK) is the Great Britain-based subsidiary of BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV, itself a subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA (XP: BNP) in France. Formerly known as Fortis Bank SA/NV (UK), the firm was established in 1988 as a brokerage firm. In 2009 Fortis Bank began to use the name BNP Paribas Fortis as a commercial name and in 2013 they changed the official company name to BNP Paribas Fortis. Headquartered in London, BNP Paribas Fortis UK provides brokerage services for central banks worldwide and primarily focuses on precious and base metals including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc. They outsource research activities to Virtual Metals Research & Consulting Ltd.