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May 29th, 2009

Pi5NY: much more than a math competition

On May 9th, 2009 BNP Paribas USA helped organise the 4th annual Pi5NY Applied Math and Science Tournament, for middle-school students in the Bronx, New York. This year’s winner is the 6th grade Varsity Team from the Christa McAuliffe IS 187 School. Almost 700 students from over 40 schools participated, coached by [...]

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Esther Reid

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May 28th, 2009

Jazz Festival in Saint-Louis, Senegal

The 17th edition of the Jazz Festival of Saint Louis will take place from 28th to the 31st of May 2009 under the patronage of the Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie du Senegal (BICIS) a BNP Paribas subsidiary in Senegal .
For almost a decade now, BICIS has been a sponsor of the festival,taking [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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May 27th, 2009

Solidarity Handicap (SH92)

The association Solidarity Handicap SH92 was created and run by parents of handicap children. It aims at providing different kinds of activities for the children and at training their parents to be better prepared to take care of their children.
Muriel Kimmerlin and Jean-Pierre Boussard, employees of BNP Paribas France, are active members of [...]

A greener approach to real estate

Atisreal, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas Real Estate, has organised a conference on Sustainable Development in Corporate Real Estate for all BNP Paribas Group employees.
A green approach has been progressively adopted by the real estate industry ever since the late 1970s, but the Grenelle Environment Forum has been the driving force behind a sustainable [...]

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Antoine Bary

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May 25th, 2009

Objectified Remuneration Promoting Equality

When BNP Paribas Assurance signed in Decenber 2007 a second agreement on gender equality in the workplace, the issue became a priority in s Human Resources policy.
Consequently, throughout 2008 the Human Resources Department implemented an ambitious action plan , part of which focused specifically on equal pay.
It is within this context that the [...]

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Olivia Le Prévost

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May 22nd, 2009

Anta Diagne Diack wins award for Best Female Manager in Senegal

Mrs Anta Diagne Diack, Deputy CEO of the Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie du Sénégal (BICIS), a BNP Paribas subsidiary in the Senegal, has been voted Best Female Manager 2008, by the Jury of the 5th Cauris d’Or, an annual business awards ceremony initiated by the Mouvement des Entreprises du Sénégal (MEDS).
This award [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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May 20th, 2009

BICIS helps underprivileged children in Senegal

Mr Daniel Delanis, general director of BICIS, BNP Paribas subsidiary in Senegal, officially presented the Fondation Education Santé with a donation of an operation table, on the 5th edition of the Golden Carius Gala, which took place in May 2009.
The association for Education and Health (FES) was founded in 2000. Its primary purpose is [...]

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Dimitrina Todorova

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May 15th, 2009

Creation of a school in Togo

On the occasion an exchange program and two trips to Togo, Sylvie Blanchard, financial advisor of BNP Paribas France, and her husband came across the project of a creation of a school. Touched by the energy and will of the local people, they decide to devote themselves to help realize this project. They [...]

Reactivity and generosity in Italy

Following the terrible earthquake that affected Italy in early April, employees of BNL, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, generously and spontaneously took a number of steps to help.
A crisis committee was immediately set up, initially to identify employees affected by the quake, and then to provide practical and psychological assistance. The bank bore the cost [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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