BNP Paribas
The largest bank in the euro area by total assets, formed in 2000 by the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris and Paribas. It operates retail networks in several European countries alongside a large corporate and institutional banking arm.
- Legal name
- BNP Paribas S.A.
- LEI
- R0MUWSFPU8MPRO8K5P83 ISO 17442 · GLEIF
- BIC
- BNPAFRPPXXX ISO 9362 · chosen from 76 BICs on the record: the only one both in the entity's own country and carrying the head-office branch code
- Type
- Commercial
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Jurisdiction
- France
- Ownership
- Public (listed)
- Founded
- 2000
- Primary regulator
- ECB (SSM)
- Licensing
- French credit institution supervised directly by the ECB under the Single Supervisory Mechanism as a significant institution.
- Total assets
- $2.9tn — our own approximate figure, not traced to a filing
- Website
- group.bnpparibas
- Markets profile
- finance.foundation/banks/bnp-paribas (listing, identifiers, valuation)
Retail bankingCorporate & institutional bankingInvestment bankingAsset managementInsurance
Where this balance-sheet figure comes from
It is our own approximate figure, and we have not traced it to a filing. BNP Paribas does not file with the SEC, which is the route we use for the banks that do, so this number is published to give a sense of scale and should not be quoted as reported. Check the bank’s own annual report before relying on it.
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Commercial peers
JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · Citigroup · HSBC · Deutsche Bank · UBS
Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.