BNP Paribas boasts a long tradition in private banking: our expertise in financial management and investment has served the great entrepreneurs and the foremost names in private investing for more than a century. Through this service, we have formed some very special relationships, relationships which have endured down the generations and through many economic cycles.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas Private Bank today manages assets valued at more than 140 billion Euros - proof indeed of our clients' confidence in us.

We offer you the multidisciplinary, multinational skills of our experts handling multi-faceted investment management. From simple advice on asset acquisition through to under mandate management of your portfolio, BNP Paribas Private Bank provides a broad spectrum of made-to-measure services designed to meet in full your expectations

No. 1 in France, a leading player worldwide, we have a presence in more than 30 countries, in all the major centres of international private asset management. As a client of BNP Paribas Private Bank, you benefit from the strength of a group which has at its disposal a global network of the highest calibre and a full complement of human and technical resources.

Your investments receive our full attention.

• Position at the beginning of 2007: First French private bank in the world

In Panama

Following the finest French banking tradition, we at BNP Paribas make it our Business to offer private clients all the benefits of our considerable savoir-faire. This means providing excellent products and services in an atmosphere of discretion and refinement. Today's private investment deserve the personal attention of financial advisors capable of optimizing a client's wealth, and BNP Paribas Private Banking Latin America is here to make sure they get it.

Present in Panama for more than 50 years BNP Paribas has taken full advantage of this country's unique financial situation and banking laws to develop a private banking center capable of offering special advantage to Latin American Investors. For example the country, which hosts a international banking center of 80 banks, is fully dollarized, imposes no foreign exchange control and Panamanian regulations strictly enforce confidentiality in all banking relationships.

BNP Paribas, which also holds a licence granted by the National Securities Commission of Panama to operate as a securities brokerage firm, is fully equipped to offer today's private investor one of the most comprehensive ranges of private banking products and services. These include asset management, checking and money market accounts, CDs, mutual funds, eurobonds, foreign exchange, purchase and sales of securities and a host of other services.