2018 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT AND ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT

2018 Registration document and annual fi nancial report - BNP PARIBAS576

8 GENERAL INFORMATION

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8.1 Documents on display

This document is available on the BNP Paribas website, www.invest.bnpparibas.com, and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) website, www. amf- france. org.

Any person wishing to receive additional information about the BNP Paribas Group can request documents, without commitment, as follows:

■ by writing to:

BNP Paribas Group Finance Investor Relations and Financial Information 3, rue d Antin CAA01B1 75002 Paris

■ by calling: +33 (0)1 40 14 63 58

BNP Paribas regulatory information (in French) can be viewed at: https://invest.bnpparibas.com/information-reglementee.

8.2 Material contracts

To date, BNP Paribas has not entered into any material contracts other than those entered into during the normal course of business that create an obligation or commitment for the entire Group.

8.3 Dependence on external parties

In April 2004, BNP Paribas SA began outsourcing IT Infrastructure Management Services to the BNP Paribas Partners for Innovation (BP²I) joint venture set up with IBM France at the end of 2003. BP²I provides IT Infrastructure Management Services for BNP Paribas SA and several BNP Paribas subsidiaries in France (including BNP Paribas Personal Finance, BP2S, and BNP Paribas Cardif), Switzerland, and Italy. The contractual arrangement with IBM France was successively extended from year to year until the end of 2021, and then extended for a period of 5 years, i.e. by the end of 2026, in particular to integrate the IBM cloud services.

BP²I is under the operational control of IBM France. BNP Paribas has a strong infl uence over this entity, which is 50/50 owned with IBM France.

The BNP Paribas staff made available to BP²I make up half of that entity s permanent staff, its buildings and processing centres are the property of the Group, and the governance in place provides BNP Paribas with the contractual right to monitor the entity and bring it back into the Group if necessary.

IBM Luxembourg is responsible for infrastructure and data production services for some of BNP Paribas Luxembourg entities.

BancWest s data processing operations are outsourced to Fidelity Information Services. Cofi noga France s data processing operation is outsourced to IBM Services.