2018 Registration document and annual fi nancial report - BNP PARIBAS 577
8GENERAL INFORMATION
8
Investments
8.4 Signifi cant changes
There have been no signifi cant changes in the Group s fi nancial or business situation since the end of the last fi nancial year for which audited fi nancial statements were published, and in particular since the signature of the Statutory Auditors report on the consolidated fi nancial statements on 5 March 2019.
8.5 Investments
The following table lists the Group s investments since 1 January 2016 that are individually valued at over EUR 500 million and are considered material at a Group level:
Country Announcement date Transaction Transaction amount Comments
Poland 31 October 2018 Acquisition by BGZ BNP Paribas of the core banking operations of Raiffeisen Bank Polska
EUR 756 million The transaction price is the equivalent in euro of the price paid (PLN 3.25 billion) on the basis of a /PLN exchange rate of ~4.30 as at 30/10/18