BANKING GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Netherlands
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France
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1966, the French government decided to merge Comptoir national d’escompte de Paris with Banque nationale pour le commerce et l’industrie to create one new bank called Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP).
Detailed explanation-2: -BNP Paribas, French banking, financial services, and insurance company created through the 1999 merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. Its headquarters are in Paris. The company traces its history to a number of French banks.
Detailed explanation-3: -BNP Paribas is France’s biggest fossil-fuel lender and one of the biggest in Europe, trailing only Deutsche Bank.
Detailed explanation-4: -The SWIFT/BIC code for BNP PARIBAS (FORMERLY BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS S.A.) is BNPAFRPHXXX.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (“Bank of Paris and the Netherlands”), generally referred to from 1982 as Paribas, was a French investment bank based in Paris.