A bank can generate revenue in a variety of different ways including interest, transaction fees and financial advice. The main method is via charging interest on the capital it lends out to customers. The bank profits from the differential between the level of interest it pays for deposits and other sources of funds, and the level of interest it charges in its lending activities.
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BNP Paribas is the largest global banking group in the world, headquartered in Paris with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 it was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas in 2000. In April 2009, BNP Paribas purchased a 75 percent stake in Fortis Bank, the Belgian banking business making BNP the eurozone’s largest bank by deposits held. BNP Paribas’s four domestic markets are France, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg. It also has significant retail operations in the United States, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and North Africa, as well as large scale investment banking operations in London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
The BNP building in Paris
One of BNP Paribas' London Trading Floors.
