Natixis Bank
Natixis is the corporate, investment and financial services arm of BPCE, the 2nd-largest banking group in France with 22% of total bank deposits and 37 million clients spread over two networks, Banques Populaires and Caisses d’Epargne.
With around 22,000 dipendenti, Natixis has a number of areas of expertise which are organized in three main business lines: Corporate e Investment Banking, Investment Solutions (asset management, private banking, assicurazione) and Specialized Financial Services.
A global player, Natixis has its own client base of companies, financial institutions and institutional investors as well as the client base of individuals, professionals and small and medium-size businesses of BPCE’s two retail banking networks.
Listed on the Paris stock exchange, it has a solid financial base with total Tier 1 capital of €12.4 billion, a Tier 1 ratio of 9.5% and quality long-term ratings (Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings: A+; Moody’s: Aa3).
Business Lines
Corporate e Investment Banking
Natixis offers its clients – corporates and institutional investors and the public sector:
- Advisory for development projects: bank financing, primary bond and equity markets, m&un, acquisition and LBO finance;
- Investment and risk management products: FOREX, interest rates, credit market, commodities, equities, etc.;
- Financing of specific activities: commodity finance, aircraft finance, transportation, project finance, real estate, structured export, balance sheet optimization and risk transfer advisory.
Via its commercial banking business, Natixis has close business ties with its clients. With the cutting-edge technical expertise of its teams, combined with its widely recognized and consistent prize-winning research, Natixis designs products and services adapted to the specific needs of its clients in France and at the international level, while ensuring risk control.
Investment Solutions
Investment Solutions combines three asset management for third parties business lines – asset management, insurance and private banking. Together or separately, they provide global solutions to the needs of its private clients and institutions in the areas of investments and risk management.
- Natixis Global Asset Management is the holding company of some twenty financial and real-estate investment management firms and distribution companies, with a multi-boutique organization. Its distribution platform ensures a strong presence in Europe, Stati Uniti, Asia/Pacific and the Middle-East.
- Natixis Assurances designs and manages an extensive range of individual and group life insurance policies, as well as provident and non-life insurance policies. It is also present abroad via partnerships with local banks.
- The private banking business is carried out by Banque Privée 1818 and Natixis Private Banking International. It offers wealth management and financial solutions tailored to major private investors, specifically entrepreneurs and senior management.
Specialised Financial Services
Natixis provides retail banks with an extensive range of competitive products and services via its Specialized Financial Services core business, which carries out the seven following activities:
- factoring (financing, management and protection od company receivables),
- sureties and guarantees (multi-market sureties and guarantees),
- leasing (commercial equipment and real-estate finance, LDD),
- consumer finance (revolving credit and personal loan management),
- employee benefits planning (developing employee savings, retirement savings, employee shareholding, group insurance and special payment vouchers),
- payments (processing of national, European and international payments, online banking platform),
- securities services (retail and private banking custody).
From product design to client operations, solutions are created using an industrial approach that ensures competitiveness and performance to provide all types of client with top-level expertise in each business line.
Developed for clients of Groupe BPCE networks, these solutions are also designed to fill the requirements of other major banking networks and financial institutions.
Financial Stakes
Coface
Coface helps exchanges between all companies around the world by providing its 130,000 clients with four tools to outsource all or part of receivables management, financing and protection: credit insurance, factoring, business information and rating, and receivables management. In France, it also offers the management of export public guaranties on behalf of the Government. Su. 5 worldwide for business rating and information. Thanks to the quality of local service provided through its 6,700 employees in 67 paesi, circa 45% of the 500 largest international corporations are already clients of Coface.
Private Equity
For the last twenty years, Natixis has operated in all areas of private equity – venture capital, expansion capital, buy in/buy-out financing and funds of funds. Its Natixis Private Equity subsidiary is one of France’s market leaders in private equity for small- and medium-size businesses.
You can find more information of Natixis Bank at natixis.com/jcms/c_5021/natixis-at-a-glance
