BNP Paribas SA (BNP), France’s largest bank, posted a 13 percent drop in second-quarter profit as Europe’s debt crisis curbed trading revenue.
Net income dropped to 1.85 billion euros ($2.26 billion) from 2.13 billion euros a year earlier, the Paris-based company said in a statement today. That beat the 1.65 billion-euro average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Chief Executive Officer Jean-Laurent Bonnafe, who took over last year, has embarked on asset cuts to comply with stricter capital rules, mirroring similar moves by other large European banks. The French firm’s goal of a 9 percent core capital ratio under Basel III rules has been “virtually” achieved by the end of June, six months in advance, Bonnafe said in the statement.
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