BNP Paribas - News, Articles & Research

Major banks explore blockchain-based digital money

Some of the world's biggest banks, including Barclays and Goldman Sachs, are exploring the issuance of a 1:1 reserve-backed form of digital money that provides a stable payment asset available on public blockchains.

13 October 2025

Company announcement/identity

BNP Paribas leads Encompass funding round

Encompass Corporation, the global leader in Corporate Digital Identity (CDI) solutions, today announced details of a financing round led by BNP Paribas, one of Europe’s leaders in banking and financial services.

30 September 2025

Company announcement/markets

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services to provide proxy voting from Proxymity

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business, a leading global custodian with USD 17.5 trillion in assets under custody, today announces the implementation of Proxymity’s proxy voting solution for its local custody general meetings services in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, helping clients streamline the voting process and facilitate better governance.

23 September 2025

News/crypto

BNP Paribas and HSBC join Canton Foundation

BNP Paribas and HSBC are the latest financial services giants to join the foundation behind the Canton Network blockchain platform for tokenised assets.

09 September 2025

Company announcement/markets

BNP Paribas and JPMorgan adopt DTCC's automated tri-party matching workflow platform

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that BNP Paribas and J.P. Morgan have joined CTM’s automated tri-party matching workflow for prime brokers, which streamlines trade communications between Hedge Funds, Prime Brokers and Executing Brokers.

09 September 2025

News/markets

UniCredit calls in BNP Paribas and FNZ for next phase of securities services revamp

UniCredit is to create 200 new jobs in the next phase of a securities services revamp that calls on BNP Paribas for custody and FNZ for the build of a cloud-based post-trade securities platform.

08 September 2025

News/markets

Barclays and BNP Paribas invest in Capitolis

Barclays and BNP Paribas are the latest big-name banks to invest in Capitolis, bringing the capital markets tech provider's strategic funding round up to $56 million.

07 August 2025

News/startups

BNP Paribas to run UK fintech incubator programme for AI

BNP Paribas Personal Finance is to run its third successive UK Fintech incubator programme, seeking out startups with Gen AI applications applicable to the financial services sector.

07 July 2025

Company announcement/payments

Lloyds to release FX execution algorithm in partnership with BNP Paribas

Lloyds today announced a partnership with BNP Paribas to offer its corporate and financial institution clients access to market-leading FX Execution Algorithms (EAs).

03 June 2025

News/cloud

BNP Paribas aims for improved resilience with new IBM Cloud deal

BNP Paribas is to dedicate a new area in its data centres for IBM Cloud services as part of an effort to strengthen resilience and meet new laws under the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (Dora).

30 April 2025

News/payments

EPI looks to join forces with other payment schemes to secure EU sovereignty in payments

BNP Paribas is backing attempts by the European Payments Initiative to wrest control of the EU's payments ecosystem away from US card schemes and Big Tech giants and secure the Bloc's sovereignty in payments.

29 April 2025

News/payments

B2B buy now, pay later app Hokodo raises €10 million

BNPL for business operator Hokodo has raised €10 million in an equity funding round co-led by Korelya Capital and Opera Tech Ventures - the corporate venture fund of BNP Paribas.

23 April 2025