Awards for Excellence national winners 2025: France

Best bank 2025: BNP Paribas

France has weathered political and financial turbulence in 2024, after years of missing out on the interest-rate bonanza lifting southern European peers since 2022. Yet some of the country’s biggest banks are becoming even more important continental leaders across financial services. 

BNP Paribas, above all, is today a European champion in terms of its financing and debt capital markets activities, as well as in areas such as securities services.

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