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June 27th, 2008

Towards gender equality at work

BNP Paribas Assurance has been awarded the Equality at Work label. The label is awarded for initiatives to encourage equal opportunities and equal remuneration between men and women in the workplace. Such initiatives include training for management, parental leave for education, increase in paternity leave to 2 calendar weeks on full salary, support for maternity [...]

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June 25th, 2008

Homage to the Art of Pastels at the Musée d’Orsay

The BNP Paribas Foundation provides patronage to French museums by contributing to the restoration of works of art and by helping to make them better known.
That is why it is helping the Musée d’Orsay in its lengthy task of restoring its pastels, created with crayons of a texture of chalk or plaster. With the exhibition, [...]

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June 20th, 2008

Wheelchair Tennis International

Since 1993, BNP Paribas has been supporting wheelchair tennis by acting as a sponsor to the French Wheelchair Tennis International.
Since then, the Bank’s sponsorship of the sport has been continuously developed, culminating in 2004 with the signing of a worldwide agreement with the Tennis Committee of the French Federation for Sport for the Handicapped.
This year, [...]

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June 16th, 2008

BNL, a partner in the Wheelchair Tennis World Cup

BNL, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, continues to be committed to tennis in all its aspects, whether with regard to the profession, society or the family … it was a sponsor for the Wheelchair Tennis World Cup held from June 9th to June 15th, in Cremona in Italy.
With the encouragement of BNP Paribas, the Italian [...]

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June 12th, 2008

Bankers in shorts

Ukrisibbank, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas in the Ukraine, has initiated a programme entitled the “Young Bankers’ Academy”, to familiarise children between the ages of 6 and 8 with the world of banking.
In two-hour sessions, children from primary schools in Kiev attended an amusing presentation on the history of money, from barter to the modern [...]

Encouraging voluntary participation

Microfinance has as much need for expertise as it does for capital in the fight against poverty. In the wider scope of BNP Paribas’ commitment to job creation via microfinance, two projects encouraging the voluntary provision of skills have been set up.
On an international scale, MicroFinance Sans Frontières (MFSF – Microfinance without Borders) mobilises volunteers [...]

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June 5th, 2008

BNP Paribas’ microcredit activity around the world

In international terms, BNP Paribas is refinancing microfinance institutions in the emerging countries in which the bank is present, mainly in local currency. The group’s Microfinance unit acts in cooperation with 23 microfinance institutions in 12 countries. It has made loans totalling over €50 million with aggregate credit lines amounting to €76 million. More than [...]

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June 5th, 2008

Agreements for employment of the handicapped

In May 2008, BNP Paribas SA signed an enterprise agreement for a 4-year period aimed at promoting the employment of handicapped people.
An agreement with AGEFIPH, an association for the employment of handicapped people in private sector companies, had already been signed, in 2007.
These agreements help to sensitise staff to an important aspect of diversity at [...]

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June 4th, 2008

BNP Paribas and ADIE, a historic and multifaceted partnership

The commitment that the Group and the BNP Paribas Foundation have shown to the Association for the Right to Economic Initiative (ADIE) for over 15 years translates the company’s fundamental social responsibility into common and lasting actions that promote the creation of economic activities and jobs.
Thanks to microcredit, ADIE finances and supports the entrepreneurs of [...]