Making culture and art accessible to the young

BNP Paribas has been supporting art and culture worldwide for more than 30 years. Launched in collaboration with Tate and the Turner Prize in 2018, BNP Paribas AccessArt25 aims to make art accessible to 17-25-year-olds in the United Kingdom. The programme wants to promote access to art, reduce the obstacles that some young people encounter, and encourage the discovery of major art venues and places. On the occasion of the Turner Prize exhibition in 2018, the programme gave 5,700 young people free tickets to Tate.

This year, BNP Paribas UK is supporting the Antony Gormley exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. As part of this partnership the AccessArt25 programme will enable 3,000 young people up to age 25 to discover the Royal Academy of Arts during three special evening events.

 

BNP Paribas announces the release of the second edition of ‘the Handbook of Corporate Financial Risk Management’, co-authored by Fabrice Famery and Stanley Myint.

The handbook is written with all risk management professionals and practitioners in mind, as well as lecturers and students in risk management. The refreshed edition is targeted at non-financial corporations. It contains 43 real-life case studies, based on 700+ client projects over 14 years.

BNP Paribas is sponsoring the book and maintains the copyright. The handbook is published by Risk Books. For more information, click here.

Fabrice Famery, head of Global Markets corporate sales at BNP Paribas said; “Over the seven years since the first edition, we have seen corporate clients facing new challenges such as the impact of sustainable finance and the shifting foreign exchange landscape. The handbook aims to help risk managers adapt their strategy and capital structure to succeed in this increasingly complex market landscape.”

Stanley Myint, head of risk management advisory at BNP Paribas said; “Our ambition with this handbook is to shed light on issues treasurers face every day while managing their financial risk. By illustrating the methodology with real-life case studies, we hope we will be able to help corporates put our recommendations into action in their business models.”

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BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.

BNP Paribas employs more than 9,000 people across 10 business lines in the UK. These include Corporate & Institutional Banking, Exane BNP Paribas, Leasing Solutions, Arval, Real Estate (including Strutt & Parker acquired in September 2017), Asset Management, Cardif Pinnacle, Commercial Finance, Personal Finance and Vauxhall Finance. Around half of its employees are in Corporate & Institutional Banking, based in London, while the others are based in various offices across the country, including Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester.

As part of its support for the solo exhibition of internationally-acclaimed British sculptor Antony Gormley opening this September at the Royal Academy of Arts, BNP Paribas announced today that it will offer 3,000 people, aged 17 to 25, free entry to the exhibition.

Entitled AccessArt25, the BNP Paribas initiative aims to offer young people what may be their first visit to the Royal Academy of Arts.  The programme consists of three specially-curated evening events that will run from 6.30 to 10pm on 23 September, 21 October and 18 November 2019.

BNP Paribas AccessArt25

The AccessArt25 programme is the first of its kind in terms of a corporate supporter providing free access to exhibitions specifically for young people.  The initiative was launched in 2018 as part of BNP Paribas’ three-year support for the Turner Prize, where it proved to be highly successful.

Antony Gormley, Royal Academician, said: “I am delighted that BNP Paribas is partnering with the Royal Academy for my exhibition so that young people can visit for free as part of the AccessArt25 programme. I’m grateful that this initiative will particularly target those who may not have ready access to art exhibitions. We are all of us artists, and I hope seeing my work will inspire young peoples’ own reflections on themselves and the world around them.”

Anne Marie Verstraeten, UK Country Head, BNP Paribas, said: “As we approach our 20^th year of support for the Royal Academy of Arts, we believe it is more important than ever that great contemporary art should be accessible for all. That is why we launched the BNP Paribas AccessArt25 programme.  We look forward to welcoming thousands of young people through the doors of this incredible institution, free of charge, to experience an exhibition by one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists.”

Young people aged 17 – 25 can register their interest at roy.ac/gormley-tickets.