Businessweek

Natixis provides wholesale banking, investment solutions, and specialized financial services in France and internationally. Its Wholesale Banking segment provides mergers and acquisitions, primary equities market, and capital advisory services for businesses, institutional investors, insurance companies, banks, and public sector entities; and offers financing solutions, as well as access to the capital markets. It offers equity, credit rate, and commodities and global structured credit and solutions; finance for aircraft, exports and infrastructure, and energy and commodities; strategic and acquisition finance, real estate finance, and equity linked finance; portfolio management services; global transaction banking services, such as treasury, cash management, payment services, import-export trade finance, and correspondent banking products; and economic, credit, equity, and quantitative research services. The company’s Investment Solutions segment provides asset management services; life insurance, personal risk insurance, and property and casualty insurance solutions for retail and small business customers, farmers, companies, and associations; private banking services; and equity financing for unlisted small and medium sized enterprises through sponsored equity holdings. Its Specialized Financial Services segment offers factoring, lease financing, consumer credit, sureties and financial guarantees, film industry financing, employee benefits planning, and payment and securities services. The company is headquartered in Paris, France. Natixis operates as a subsidiary of Groupe BPCE.