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Interview: Olivier Paul, BNP Paribas
17 February 2010
BNP Paribas has once again topped the Dealogic trade finance league tables completing an impressive $11.9 billion worth of business. Dickon Harris catches up with Olivier Paul, the bank’s global head of export finance.
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Trade Finance (TF): Congratulations on topping the 2009 league tables. Where you expecting to do so well?
Olivier Paul (OP): We have been extremely strong in this area for the last 10 years and have topped this poll now for the last three consecutive years and for the fourth time in the last five years.We have an extremely strong team in place and the right skills and people to do an impressive number of transactions and last year was no exception.
We cover the whole structure around exports. Our teams have people who can add value to these deals by adding additional tools such as hedging structures to handle interest rate or currency volatility. Right now at BNP Paribas we have 110 people doing export finance. We are still in the processing of merging with Fortis and we expect this figure to expand to at least 140 people this...
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