Paribas, formed in 1872 from two companies respectively in Paris and Amsterdam, operated in what field?
BNP Paribas pour le commerce et l'industrie (BNCI) and Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP) – in 1966. The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. ("Bank of Paris and the Netherlands"), or Paribas, was formed from two investment banks based respectively in Paris and Amsterdam, in 1872. "Les Pays-Bas" ("The Low Countries") is French for the Netherlands. In May 2000, BNP and Paribas merged to form BNP Paribas, which is thus descended from four founding banking institutions. On 7 March 1848, the French Provisional Government founded the "Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris" (CNEP) in response to the financial shock caused by
Paribas who was a director of "Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas" in Belgium at the time. Paribas Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. (Paribas, Bank of Paris and the Netherlands) was a French investment bank based in Paris that in May 2000 merged with Banque National de Paris S.A. to form BNP Paribas. "Les Pays-Bas" ("The Low-Countries") is French for the Netherlands. In the early 1820s, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim founded a private banking establishment in Amsterdam in his own name. His brother Jonathan-Raphaël created a branch in Antwerp in 1827 before settling in Brussels in 1836. Having married Henriette Goldschmidt,