Paribas

Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A.
Company typeSociété anonyme
IndustryBanking
Predecessor
  • Banque de Crédit et de Dépôt des Pays-Bas
  • Banque de Paris
Founded27 January 1872 (1872-01-27)
FounderHenri Bamberger, Adolphe-Ernest Fould, Eugène Goüin, Edouard Hentsch, Edmond Joubert, Henri Cernuschi
Defunct22 May 2000 (2000-05-22)
SuccessorBNP Paribas
Headquarters
Paris
,
France

The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (lit.'Bank of Paris and the Netherlands'), generally referred to from 1982 as Paribas, was a French investment bank based in Paris. In May 2000, it merged with the Banque Nationale de Paris to form BNP Paribas.