BNP Paribas : financial and impact-investing partner for MFIs
July 20, 2017 at 09:43 am EDT
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Technical assistance provided by volunteers and BNP Paribas employees
Since 2007, BNP Paribas employees and retired staff members have been making their skills available to help microfinance players on a voluntary basis. Thanks to the relationship-building work undertaken by the Group, almost 20 MFI support assignments and 180 micro-entrepreneur guidance assignments were undertaken across 12 countries in 2016.
In Europe and in the Maghreb region, voluntary workers have supported micro-entrepreneurs by providing technical expertise. In 2015, support was provided to l'Adie in France, microStart in Belgium, PerMicro in Italy and Taysir in Tunisia.
In other parts of the world (Philippines, Haiti, etc.) technical support assignments were undertaken to help MFI network NGOs.
Since 2017, under the Group's Leaders for Tomorrow talent strategy programme, BNP Paribas proposes its Leadership Talents to acquire social auditing skills and carry out a paired on-site assignment (during work time). The objective of the assignment is to assess the performance and social impact of MFIs in Europe, Africa and Asia and contribute towards developing individual and group leadership skills.
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BNP Paribas is France's largest banking group. Net banking product (NBP) breaks down by activity as follows:
- retail banking (54%): retail banking activity in France (24.1% of NBP), in Belgium (14.6%), and Italy (10.2%). The remainder of the NBP (51.1%) is from international activities and specialized financial services activities (consumer loans, real estate credit, leasing credit, car fleet management, computer equipment leasing);
- finance and investment banking (34.4%): consulting and capital market activities (83.7% of NBP; merger-acquisition consulting, activities related to the stock, interest, and exchange markets, etc.) and financing (16.3%; financing for acquisitions, projects, raw material transactions, etc.);
- institutional and private management and insurance (11.6%): asset management, private banking activity (No. 1 in France), real estate and on-line brokerage services, insurance and securities services (No. 1 in Europe for retained securities).
At the end of 2023, BNP Paribas was managing EUR 988.5 billion in current deposits and EUR 859.2 billion in current loans.
Net banking product is distributed geographically as follows: Europe, Middle East and Africa (82.9%), America (9.8%) and Asia/Pacific (7.3%).
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