Business Chief Europe Magazine February 2020 | Page 86

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196,000 NO . EMPLOYEES

Paris HEAD QUARTERS

$ 46.8bn

REVENUE IN US DOLLARS
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Jean-Laurent Bonnafé

BNP PARIBAS

Jean-Laurent Bonnafé is the CEO of French banking group BNP Paribas , France ’ s largest bank . Before joining the company in 1993 as an investment banker , he studied engineering at the École Polytechnique and the École des Mine . He became CEO in 2011 and remains widely credited for the successful acquisitions of Paribas , BNL and Fortis . Today , BNP Paribas operates across France , Belgium and Italy and has a market capitalisation of US $ 68.7bn FEBRUARY 2020