With newly released data showing slower growth in the euro-zone, the struggle of Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas cutting $683 million in expenses, the euro may be in deep trouble. In the last quarter of 2018, a period in which even U.S. banks underperfo…
According to multiple sources, BNP SA, known by many as the largest bank in France, reportedly made a loss of $80 million in derivative trades connected to the United States. The sources confirmed that Antoine Lours, the Head of U.S index trading at BN…
Two European and one Japanese bank one have completed the first blockchain-based syndicated loan. Together with France’s BNP Paribas and Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Spain’s banking behemoth BBVA utilized a private blockcha…
French bank BNP Paribas’ Securities Services, its custody arm, has unveiled a blockchain platform that will enable private companies to lend money to business using mini-bonds in exchange for company shares. In an announcement today, BNP Paribas has announced a new blockchain platform that will enable investors to issue mini-bonds for private company shares, as […]
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BNP Paribas Securities, the French bank, has partnered with SmartAngels, a Paris, France-based crowdfunding platform, to pilot the use of blockchain technology for funding startups and SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises), according to La Revue Du Digital, a French business news source. The test, a first in France, will allow unlisted firms to issue securities […]
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Bitcoin continues to push deeper into mainstream currency trading with BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank. The bank is testing bitcoin for one of its currency funds, according to International Business Times UK. A source at BNP Paribas told IBTimes UK the bank has been “beta testing” crypotocurrency with one of the bank’s currency funds in Paris and will make an announcement about it shortly. Spokesperson Cites Block Chain Technology “We are looking at blockchain technology and how it can be applied to post trade processes to make things faster and potentially cheaper but it’s all very much projects and it’s […]
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The bitcoin block chain could potentially upend the existing post-trade infrastructure and make financial companies redundant, according to an analyst at BNP Paribas Security Services, an international bank. Johann Palychata, a research analyst at the company, makes this observation in the current issue of bank’s publication, Quintessence. This article marks the first time a major bank has acknowledged bitcoin’s disruptive potential of the existing post-trade infrastructure, according to financial observers. Palychata’s article constitutes a “huge admission for one of the world’s biggest banks” regarding bitcoin’s potential to make existing companies redundant, according to Oscar Williams-Grut in today’s Business Insider. Palychata’s […]
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