BNL Banca commerciale

BNL banca commerciale
(BNL bc) is the new core business resulting from the reorganisation of the BNL Group after its acquisition by BNP Paribas in the first half of 2006. It provides commercial banking services in Italy to individual and private banking clients, Small- and Medium-sized companies and territorial authorities.

BNL bc is the 7th-largest bank in Italy in terms of both customer loans and deposits.

Offering a comprehensive range of products and services designed to meet all client needs for financing, savings products and transactions, the Retail and Private Banking Division serves:

• More than 2.5 million individual clients, who are offered different products and services according to their assets and their potential.
• 11,000 private clients, who are served by a network of 18 specialised centres and 150 staff dedicated to developing distinctive and personalised products and services.
• 112,000 small businesses, on a market offering attractive opportunities that BNL bc intends to take advantage of while remaining vigilant about credit quality.

The Enterprises Division represents BNL' s traditional activity and leading expertise thanks to a comprehensive range of products and services, a national network of 80 specialised centres dedicated to the needs of more than 36,000 companies and 16,000 territorial authorities and non-profit organisations.

All types of financing are provided including structured financing, in some cases in conjunction with BNP Paribas's Corporate and Investment Banking or through BNL bc's subsidiaries, such as Ifitalia, which is specialised in factoring and rated no. 2 in its sector with a 16% market share.

BNL bc also offers companies and local authorities a broad range of products and services with a reputation for quality and excellence such as liquidity management, hedging instruments and import-export payments.

With these new bases, BNL bc can now be described as BNP Paribas Group's "second domestic market".

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2006 awards and Rankings

• Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) for the takeover bid campaign in 2006 (Milano Finanza Global Awards)
• 2006 Web Osc@r Award in the "Bank Services and Institutions" category (Labitalia)