Our Business
1. Global Banking
As the leading European investment bank across Europe, the Gulf and Asia, we support our corporate clients in their development, providing strategic advice and first-class access to financing and transaction banking services. Our role as bridge builders between our broad and long-standing corporates client base and trusted institutional investors relies on our teams that combine global reach, sectorial expertise and local knowledge.
2. Global Markets
BNP Paribas’ Global Markets offer consistent client service and innovative solutions for investment, hedging and financing opportunities in Qatar. These capabilities extend to the design of market strategies, single and cross asset to help our clients make informed decisions. Bringing strategy and economics together, Markets 360 provides unparalleled access to in-depth analysis and thought leadership across asset classes.
3. Securities Services
BNP Securities Services is a multi-asset servicing specialist committed to helping our clients achieve their ambitions in terms of investments and cross-border distribution.
In the GCC, we serve a wide range of institutions including sovereign wealth funds, central banks, other public sector institutions, asset managers and commercial banks, building bespoke solutions to meet their requirements for the servicing of their investments in developed markets.
4. Islamic Banking
BNP Paribas was one of the first international banks to establish a presence in Islamic banking in the early 1980s. In 2003, it consolidated its Islamic banking business under the BNP Paribas Najmah name, as the global franchise of the Group’s Islamic banking activities, based in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The dedicated specialist teams across Najmah’s two hubs engage in the structuring and marketing of a broad range of innovative Shariah-compliant solutions, including Sukuk structures, liquidity management products, Islamic hedging instruments, Islamic investment and structured financing products, and facilities that are tailored to the needs of our diverse clientele of sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns and financial institutions, corporates and high-net-worth individuals.
5. M&A advisory
BNP Paribas’ credentials as a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisor of choice have been built on an excellent track record of originating and successfully executing tailor-made transactions. Our highly experienced professionals strive to offer insightful advice on all types of M&A, and equity capital markets transactions. Our investment banking teams provide M&A advisory services to BNP Paribas’ corporate, institutional, equity sponsor and government clients through industry expertise and local intelligence
6. Retail and Private Banking: Non-Residents service
BNP Paribas created its Non-Residents service, dedicated to supporting international clients. This set up, the first of its kind in the French banking world, is aimed primarily at expatriates and international clients wishing to invest in France.
Investment Protection Services
7. Asset Management
BNP Paribas Asset Management is the investment management arm of the BNP Paribas Group. It offers a comprehensive range of active, passive and quantitative investment solutions covering a broad spectrum of assets classes and geographies. The GCC is among the regions served by BNP Paribas Asset Management. We have a strong track record of successfully managing assets for institutional clients in the region for more than two decades.
8. Wealth Management
BNP Paribas Wealth Management has protected and developed the wealth of our high-net-worth clients for over 150 years. We deliver a tailor-made experience, with precise, local knowledge backed by the global know-how of a worldwide banking group. In the GCC, we primarily serve our clients from our BNP Paribas Wealth Management DIFC office in Dubai.
