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BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions to two client franchises: corporates and institutionals, and operates across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialised Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five house worldwide.

BlackRock’s Official Institutions Group (“OIG”) partners with central banks, sovereign wealth funds, finance ministries, future generation funds and multi-lateral organizations, offering the full range of customized solutions and global investment management, risk management and advisory services.

Our clients can take advantage of BlackRock’s broad global investment platform and expertise across a robust set of asset classes spanning the full risk spectrum. We are aware of the unique set of requirements facing official institutions and can tailor an investment strategy within a given mandate to reflect the specific constraints and needs of our clients. As a fiduciary, we share the same objectives and challenges as our clients. By partnering with them and leveraging the experience of BlackRock investment professionals as well as Aladdin, our end-to-end operating system for investment management, we believe we can generate long-term solutions that allow us to achieve our client’s goals. BlackRock has provided investment solutions to official institutions worldwide since 1992 and manages $537 billion on behalf of these institutions as of 30 September 2022. 

As of 31 December 2022: 

• OIG manages c. $600 billion in assets under management, including self-reported iShares holdings, for 138 official institution clients worldwide (59 central banks, 27 sovereign wealth funds, 24 national pension funds, 28 multilateral development banks, ministries and agencies).
• OIG provides risk management tools in the form of BlackRock’s Aladdin and eFront solutions to 21 official institution clients worldwide.
• BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory ("FMA") team has completed 146 assignments for global official institution clients since 2013.

Dedicated team of seasoned OIG client relationship managers partner closely with BlackRock’s broader institutional client business to ensure holistic relationship coverage across headquarters and regional rep offices

McKinsey’s Risk practice helps management teams and boards in all industries achieve extraordinary risk-adjusted performance. We combine McKinsey’s deep industry insights and strategic skills with our innovative and analytical approach to building risk management capabilities. Our goal is to ensure resilience and safe value creation for our clients. Our network includes about 100 partners and 250 consultants and senior experts advising on risk projects in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. To support our risk advanced analytics efforts, we have an extensive team of over 65 specialized modelling experts with advanced mathematical degrees. We also work closely with senior expert advisers—external collaborators who bring to bear decades of industry, regulatory, and academic experience. For more information, please visit: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk/our-insights

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