Tokenisation for green financing
Our Corporate & Institutional Banking division structured and distributed with EDF ENR, one of the first tokenised bonds on the market designed to finance a renewable energy project. Issued on the Ethereum blockchain, this bond resulted in the issue of digital financial securities, which can be recorded, moved and stored in a transparent manner. Called tokenisation, this technology makes it possible to value and materialise real assets in the digital world, creating new bridges between issuers and investors in an instant and secure manner, while providing a unique ESG financing solution, from origination to distribution.
Putting data to work for the climate
BNP Paribas relies on data to accelerate the pace towards “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions. The Group has thus joined the OS-Climate platform as a founding member to provide climate data, architecture and shared analytical tools to companies, investors and organisations, promoting the convergence of methodologies and alignment with climate targets. BNP Paribas also integrates ESG reporting and analysis functionalities into its solutions. The Manaos investment data management platform, designed and incubated by the Securities Services teams at Corporate & Institutional Banking, helps institutional investors and asset managers obtain reliable ESG data and report on the performance of their investments based on these criteria. Manaos, which has become a benchmark in the market in two years, won several awards in 2022, including the award for “Best technological initiative in favour of an augmented ESG approach”, awarded at the AM Tech Day 2022 organised by the French group L’Agefi.
“Regarding innovation, we have built an approach to identify and implement opportunities: it always starts with identifying the needs of our main client segments and then defining how the Group can meet them. Once we fully understand these needs, we find the adapted value proposition and the best way to bring it to the customer. We either develop innovative features ourselves or we offer a service built by a start-up partner. In both cases, we make no compromise about the security and protection of our customers’ data.”