BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage Inc.

World–class strength and service focused on your goals.

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage Inc. combines the powerful knowledge, capital and counterparty rating of a world–class financial leader with the flexibility to customize solutions for your unique needs. We understand what drives your business and we work together across our global enterprise to deliver attractive financing, facilitate capital–intensive transactions and provide comprehensive solutions –  from Corporate & Investment Banking ,  International Retail Services  and Asset Management.

BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage services

Capital Accounting
Capital Introduction
Clearance, Settlement, and Custody
Prime Brokerage Sales Trading
Reporting
Risk–Based Margin Products
Securities Lending
Technology and Custom IT Solutions

What we offer

Equity Fianacing Solutions

• Provides a “one stop shopping” finance platform all synthetic PB clients.
• Customizable financing solutions for clients
• Ability to provide short market access and create supply synthetically using innovative strategies
• Access to exclusive portfolios of securities within the BNP Paribas network
• Provide financing, leverage, and market access for Risk Arbitrage, Convert Arbitrage, and other client strategies
• Conduct detailed analysis of client portfolios to optimize client financing dollars
• Uniquely designed documentation, transaction mechanics, operation, and reporting that makes financing and synthetic solutions as easy as using cash prime brokerage
• An array of benefits, including anonymity, risk-based margin, AA+ rated counterparty & market access
• AA+ credit rating plus our powerful securities lending market share make us a preferred counterparty to large lending institutions
• Integrated with Securities Lending team to provide clients daily market and rebate color 

Securities lending

• BNP has over 205 bank and broker dealer Security borrowing and lending relationships – we pride ourselves in our deep relationships with both institutions we source from and our hedge fund clients.
• Our team has invested a considerable amount of resources into automating and analyzing supply and demand data from banks, brokers and customers.
• We feel our commitment, AA+ credit quality, $2.6 trillion balance sheet, market experience, technology and headcount give us an edge in this business.
• BNP employs 30 passionate security lending client facing professionals to cover the US market alone. These 30 professionals leverage our technology to eliminate the calls on easy to borrow names and hustle to obtain hard to borrow securities and protect clients’ interests.
• Our Securities Lending capabilities are differentiated by our approach, our relationships, and the results we deliver to our hedge fund clients.
• Our Securities Lending team runs a $70 billion borrowed book with a $10 billion matched book. Our extensive matched book provides a deep borrowing inventory, with consistently attractive and highly competitive rates on hard-to-borrow names.
• Our approach is supported by our parent company, BNPP, which understands our business and gives us the ability to expand our balance sheet usage to run this expansive matched book.
• Our advanced technologies allow us to actively manage our inventory based on real-time market demand instead of just basis of rebates. Furthermore, our innovative Securities Lending technology includes an online short approval system that facilitates your short selling process in a timely manner.
• The proprietary software that we have developed is accessible over a secure Internet connection and will automatically confirm availability without your having to call the desk, allowing you to execute quickly and efficiently. More than 80% of our daily borrow requirements are filled and booked automatically. This allows our team to focus on the ‘hards’ for you. 

Capital introduction

• Individualized service and numerous opportunities to meet investors for your fund and receive timely investor feedback 
• Global team with a presence in Chicago , Dallas , New York , San Francisco and London
• Symposiums in North America and Europe , providing 40–60 experienced managers with broad exposure to a diversified institutional investor base
• Undiscovered Manager Forums, providing "undiscovered" managers with broad exposure to investors interested in smaller, newer managers and/or funds
• Multiple-Manager Forums, a more concentrated forum in which experienced managers present to a diverse investor base, followed by a Q&A roundtable discussion
• Single Manager Events and One-on-One meetings in multiple U.S. and European cities, providing experienced managers with focused exposure to a group of targeted investors  

Technology and custom IT solutions

• Fully integrated systems front–to–back, with trading functionality at no additional cost
• Pioneering client oriented solutions
• Integrated reporting of cash and synthetic products.
• Single–source settlement
• Risk–based margin transparency
• Modular approach allowing complete client flexibility for "best of breed" solutions
• Co–location model enabling clients to leverage our technology prowess

Awards

Global Custodian 2007 Prime Brokerage Survey:

• 48 out of 54 Best in Class Awards
• #1 in Servicing Funds Greater than $1 billion
• #1 in Global Capital Introduction
• #1 in Servicing Multi-Strategy Funds

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