Swift said it has concluded a digital assets interoperability trial with a trio of banks. The global messaging platform said this effort—conducted in collaboration with BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo and Societe Generale’s SG Forge—allowed for “the seamless exchange and settlement” of tokenized bonds,...
Digital bank Revolut is buying Banco Cetelem, a small Argentinian lender owned by BNP Paribas. “Argentina’s digital banking industry has seen significant growth in recent years, with the majority of the population actively using digital financial services,” the company said in a news release provided...
French banking group BNP Paribas has formed a partnership with AI firm Mistral. The agreement, announced Wednesday (July 10), is a multiyear partnership that provides access to Mistral’s current and future commercial artificial intelligence (AI) models across the bank’s business lines. The two companies have...
BNP Paribas and BPCE have partnered to create a payment processor that would handle all card payments from the two banks in Europe and could also be opened to other banks. With 17 billion transactions from BNP Paribas and BPCE alone, the processor would be the...
January 10, 2023
Europe’s retail banking sector is battling weak consumer sentiment and the threat of loan defaults. To curb losses and adapt to a difficult consumer credit environment, some European banks have opted to restructure. Most recently, BNP Paribas is reported to be considering different options for a major overhaul of its consumer finance unit. The news […]
August 17, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has made businesses and banks race to find solutions for immediate problems in recent months, but these firms must also consider how the pandemic could affect their...
September 04, 2017
Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe and North America now supported and South America...
May 26, 2026
French bank BNP Paribas has reportedly launched a cybersecurity collaboration with partners including AI startup Mistral. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (May 26), the effort is to help prepare for cybersecurity threats from artificial intelligence (AI) models such as Anthropic’s Mythos. “The focus has been a lot on ‘is Mythos accessible or not accessible?’ but let’s not forget there are […]
January 15, 2026
Swift said it has concluded a digital assets interoperability trial with a trio of banks. The global messaging platform said this effort—conducted in collaboration with BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa...
June 26, 2025
Digital bank Revolut is buying Banco Cetelem, a small Argentinian lender owned by BNP Paribas. “Argentina’s digital banking industry has seen significant growth in recent years, with the majority of...
July 10, 2024
French banking group BNP Paribas has formed a partnership with AI firm Mistral. The agreement, announced Wednesday (July 10), is a multiyear partnership that provides access to Mistral’s current and...