Corporates & Institutions

Capital Markets

• Our Capital Markets team focus on alignment of all activities across origination, structuring and syndication. Product neutrality guarantees the delivery of the financing solutions that best fit our clients’ needs, while integration with syndication facilitates distribution.
• Our Debt Capital Markets teams operate an origination platform providing solutions to corporate clients across bonds and loans. The teams are complemented by a strong syndication, coordinating the distribution of loans, bonds and equity issuances to a wide network of investors.

Transaction Banking

Cash Management and Global Trade Solutions

Our Transaction Banking platform offers a full array of capabilities for clients’ cash management, trade, corporate treasury and transaction services.

Cash Management

A strong commitment to treasury management

We offer a broad set of solutions for corporates to manage flows, concentrate cash positions and manage liquidity. Services include bank account management, payment and collection instruments, connectivity solutions, cash pooling solutions & sight deposits.

With a customised cash management solution, BNP Paribas can support clients to monitor and manage their cash flows within the UAE and globally. With a geographical footprint across the world and direct access to local cash management experts and clearing, BNP Paribas UAE provides corporates with seamless solutions.

• Payments and Receivables: simplify the way you pay with fast and efficient payments, both domestic and cross-border. 
• FX+ Payments – make seamless FX conversions for international payments from a single account using live currency rates. International payments can be made in up to 130 currencies, using same-day delivery options and received in 40 currencies. 
• SWIFT gpi – track international transactions (incoming and outgoing) end-to-end and in real time, with transparency over routing and fees.
• Digital Channels – Manage Your Cash Activities Onlineand carry out fund transfers, track payment status and monitor accounts worldwide in an all-in-one eBanking system. Seamless integration with your system either manually or automatically with a host-to-host solution.Option to fully automate the exchange of files between your ERP or treasury management system and BNP Paribas through a host to host solution without user intervention.
• Innovation and Advisory – Innovate and co-create, building the solutions for tomorrow,
  work with BNP Paribas’ excellent advisory service and improve business processes. Unlock capital tied up in your balance sheet with working capital finance.
• Liquidity and Investment Solutions  – our liquidity advisory team in the UAE have an extensive range of solutions to help corporates make best use of their operational and surplus cash and manage cash, from liquidity management to investment solutions for operational, reserve and strategic cash. Use BNP Paribas’s cash concentration capabilities to enable central and/or regional control over your cash across a multitude of currencies.
• Servicing – a dedicated team to guide you through the implementation, service your day-to-day operations and continuously support your treasury journey.

Global Trade Solutions

BNP Paribas UAE offers a full suite of traditional trade products together with bespoke, digitally enabled working‑capital solutions to facilitate your cross‑border business along the value chain. Our portfolio combines classic instruments such as letters of credit, standby LCs and guarantees, as well as tailored financing, receivables discounting and payables optimisation. All services are accessed securely through BNP Paribas’ web‑based e‑Banking platforms; Connexis Guarantee, Connexis Trade and Connexis Supply Chain

•  A broad range of products and solutions supporting your trade business
•  Letters of Credit & Stand‑by Letters of Credit: guarantee payment and mitigate counter‑party risk.
• Domestic & International Guarantees: reinforce and manage contractual performance obligations.
• Tailored Working Capital Management: receivables discounting and payables optimisation designed for your specific trade flows.
• Advisory: backed by BNP Paribas entities worldwide and a broad correspondent‑bank community.

Optimising your cash conversion cycle

BNP Paribas provides a complete suite of Working Capital Management solutions designed to optimise your cash flow whilst embedding your ESG agenda throughout the process. From receivables discounting to payables management, including supplier financing and reverse factoring, our tools help you tighten Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and optimise Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) while supporting your suppliers.

M&A Advisory

BNP Paribas’ credentials as a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisor of choice have been built on an excellent track record of originating and successfully executing tailor-made transactions. Our highly experienced professionals strive to offer insightful advice on all types of mergers & acquisitions. In particular, we see our role as bridge builders between our broad and long-standing corporate clients base and trusted institutional investors, leveraging on teams combining global reach, sectorial expertise and local knowledge.

In the Middle East, BNP Paribas delivers tailored solutions through experience gained from a long-standing GCC presence spanning more than 50 years.  Our dedicated M&A Advisory team, based on-the-ground in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, provides strategic guidance and advisory-related services across:

Sell-Side Advisory	Buy-Side Advisory	Other Advisory
Assisting sellers with formulating transaction strategy, identifying key potential investors, conducting market out-reach, coordinating sale processes and supporting on transaction negotiations & signing	Assisting buyers on analysing potential acquisitions, facilitating dialogue with sellers, coordinating the due diligence exercises conducted by the buyer’s other specialist advisors and supporting transaction negotiations & signing	Assisting on privatizations, asset monetisations and joint-venture formation for strategic corporate, institutional, equity sponsor and government clients

In addition, as part of BNP Paribas’s Global Banking vertical, our team works closely with an international network of professionals and industry groups, enabling us to tap into a ‘one-stop shop’ investment banking offering. Through BNP Paribas’s deep knowledge and experience across industry sectors (including Low-Carbon Transition, Infrastructure, Transportation, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, TMT, Industrials and more) and capital raising solutions, we offer local market intelligence that can help solve complex business issues and best suit your needs.

2. Global Markets

BNP Paribas’ Global Markets platform offers consistent client service and innovative solutions for investment, hedging and financing opportunities across asset classes and geographies to clients in the UAE and across the MEA region. These capabilities extend to the design of market strategies, single and cross assets to help our clients make informed decisions. Bringing strategy and economics together,  Markets 360 provides unparalleled access to in-depth analysis and thought-leadership across asset classes.

Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC)

A leading global franchise servicing Corporate and Institutional clients from credit origination and syndication, to secondary market trading on commodities, credit, FX and rates.

FICC offers a comprehensive suite of flow and complex products across Global Rates, Commodity Derivatives and Foreign Exchange, to address clients’ needs, from investing, financing and market access to hedging and yield enhancement.

• Commodity Derivatives – BNP Paribas has a well-established track record in the commodities market and our offering includes financing, global risk management, corporate commodity derivatives and structured products.
• Foreign Exchange  – BNP Paribas is a global leader in Foreign Exchange across over 75 currency pairs and derivatives products. Our experienced teams are well positioned to provide our clients with access across developed and emerging markets.
• Global Rates – the Global Rates platform has an extensive suite of product offering, including interest rates, repo and bond products as well as mortgage-backed securities.

Global Equities

With the combined strengths of our world-class Prime Services and Cash Equities platforms, BNP Paribas continues to diversify and scale our Equities offering by building on our distinguished global Equity Derivatives business.

• Cash Equities – through BNP Paribas Exane, our best-in-class Cash Equities platform offers award-winning equity research and a customisable execution experience driven by quantitative execution research and the latest technology.

• Equity Derivatives – BNP Paribas is a global leader in structured products for private banks and distribution, retail, and institutions building on our track record of developing innovative Equity Derivative strategies.

• Prime Services – BNP Paribas is one of a few banks globally with an extensive suite of investment services. As a global premier financing specialist, leading credit quality, balance sheet, and capital capacity among top-tier Primes.

3. Securities Services

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business is a leading global custodian providing multi-asset post-trade and asset servicing solutions to buy-side and sell-side market participants, corporates, and issuers. With a global reach covering 90+ markets, its custody network is one of the most extensive in the industry, enabling clients to maximise their investment opportunities worldwide. As a pillar of BNP Paribas’ diversified banking model, Securities Services provides asset servicing solutions that are closely integrated with the first-class services of the Group’s other business lines, in particular those of Global Banking and Global Markets.

We are committed to supporting institutional investors across the United Arab Emirates to achieve their investments and cross-border distribution ambitions.  With a team rich in global and local expertise, we deliver the connectivity and insights our clients need to thrive in an ever-evolving financial landscape.

Innovation and sustainability lie at the heart of our approach. We continuously invest in cutting-edge technology and responsible practices to provide future-ready solutions that align with our clients’ long-term objectives.

We partner with a wide range of institutions including sovereign wealth funds, central banks, asset owners, asset managers, banks, and financial institutions. By designing bespoke solutions, we support the servicing of their investments across developed and emerging markets, helping them to navigate complexity with confidence.

Our approach combines global scale with on-the-ground knowledge, helping clients navigate regulatory change, operational risk, cross-border investment flows and the growing demand for technology-led investment servicing.

In the UAE, we support clients with tailored solutions across:

– Asset & Fund Services
– Custody, Clearing & Cash
– Corporate Trust
– Digital & Technology
– Market & Financing Services
– Private Capital

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Whether you are expanding internationally, launching new investment structures or seeking a trusted servicing partner in the UAE, our local team can help connect your ambitions to global execution.

4. Islamic Banking

BNP Paribas was one of the first international banks to establish a presence in Islamic banking in the early 1980s. In 2003, it consolidated its Islamic banking business under the BNP Paribas Najmah name, as the global franchise of the Group’s Islamic banking activities, based in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The establishment of an Asia-Pacific hub in Malaysia in 2011 serves as a testament to the Bank’s continued commitment to expand its footprint across key global markets and to satisfy the increasing demand for Shariah compliant offerings.
The dedicated specialist teams across Najmah’s two hubs engage in the structuring and marketing of a broad range of innovative Shariah-compliant solutions, including Sukuk structures, liquidity management products, Islamic hedging instruments, Islamic investment and structured financing products, and facilities that are tailored to the needs of our diverse clientele of sovereigns, quasi-sovereigns and financial institutions, corporates and high-net-worth individuals. All our Islamic banking products and solutions are endorsed and certified by our internationally-recognised Supervisory Committee.
Since inception, Najmah has built a competitive edge in demanding Islamic finance markets by delivering innovative and award-wining Islamic products and solutions, many of which have been the first to launch to meet specific client needs.