BNP Paribas: Profit grows 19% by September, reaches 11,018 million

O french banking group BNP Paribas made a profit of 11,018 million euros by September, more 19% than in the first nine months of 2025, according to the results released today.

The result compares with EUR 9,253 million obtained in the same period, according to the financial results published on the group’s website.

From January to September this year, BNP Paribas recorded a net turnover of EUR 41,904 million, representing an annual growth of 10%.

The risk cost assumed by the French entity was €2,835 million, 11% higher than in the same period of 2025.

Between July and September, it recorded a net profit of EUR 3,456 million, 13.5% above the third quarter of 2025. In the same period, turnover increased by 9.5% to 13.757 million.

The CET1 ratio, which indicates the relationship between Common Equity Tier 1 capital and risk-weighted assets, was 12.9% to 30 September 2026 above the requirements of the supervisory review and assessment process in the euro area (10.45%).

The financial ratio that measures the return on tangible equity (ROTE) was in September 13.2%, compared with 11.4% of the same period last year.

In the information released to the market, the banking group announces that it will proceed with a stock buyback program worth 1,300 million euros, which will start on November 2.

The acquisition will take place “under a contract with an investment service provider acting independently, to which an irrevocable instruction was entrusted to acquire the shares,” the bank said.

In the information disclosed to the market, BNP Paribas states that the dynamism of the new digital businesses and private investors recorded a “two-digit increase” in the pre-tax result in the third quarter, with the group’s payment institution Nickel, “expanding its presence in Europe, with around 13,900 points of sale in France, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal”.