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Paris EUROPLACE

Paris, the only “global city” in the EU27. The Paris financial center is located at the heart of Europe. It can be easily reached by air, rail and road transportation and gives access to a market of 500 million European consumers. It is supported by the largest economic region in the EU27, with 5% of the EU GDP, and the prime location in Europe of the world’s Top 500 corporate headquarters.
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What is Paris EUROPLACE?

Paris EUROPLACE is the voice of the Paris Financial Center. It brings together over 400 members, all financial services industry stakeholders: corporate issuers, investors, banks and financial intermediaries, professional associations, lawyers and accountants, consulting firms, etc., as well as the financial market authorities.

Paris EUROPLACE:

  • Organizes working groups to enhance the Paris financial services’ business regulatory and global environment;
  • Participates in European working groups and consultations on European financial markets;
  • Develops dialogue, close ties and cooperation with emerging financial centres;
  • Encourages innovation (through the “FINANCE INNOVATION” cluster), sustainable finance (through the “Finance for Tomorrow” initiative) and financial research (through the “Louis Bachelier” institute).

The 2030 global strategy of the Paris International Financial Centre:

  • Improve its attractiveness;
  • Consolidate its position in its sectors of excellence (e.g. investment banking, insurance, asset management, corporate financing);
  • Accelerate industrial initiatives in three key sectors: Fintech and financial innovation, Sustainable and environmental finance, Infrastructure financing;
  • Strengthen its contribution at European and International levels.

 

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The leading financial center in the EU27

Paris hosts the largest EU stock exchange, in terms of market capitalization (EUR 4 bn) and the value of equity trading.

It is the EU’s deepest and most liquid corporate bond market.

France is home to the largest asset management pool, with more than EUR 4,000 bn in assets under management.

Paris hosts a critical mass of financial market players:

  • 1st Business Centre in Europe i.e. presence of the clients of financial institutions & the talents
  • 5 French banks in the EU top 10
  • Number 1 insurance Market in the EU
  • A vibrant Private Equity industry

 

In addition,  the French regulation is recognized worldwide, based on a regular dialogue between professionals and regulators.
The largest fintech base in the EU27

Paris Region is an innovative powerhouse

  • It records the highest amount of R&D expenditure in EU27.
  • It hosts the largest R&D talent pool in EU27 (100,000 R&D researchers, 9,000 foreign Ph.D. students…).
  • It offers world-class research universities, business, engineering, and specialized schools and boasts 32 Nobel Prizes, 11 Fields Medals, 4 Abel Prizes.

 

500 French Fintech

  • In 2018, EUR 365 million raised / 72 deals
  • Over half are active abroad
  • 3 French fintech rank among the global top 100
  • 1 French fintech received the « innovation award» at the CES in Las Vegas
  • French expertise spans over the full range of activities
  • Financing and payment are the dominant sectors
  • 35 % rely on Machine Learning
  • 36% are over 5 years old

 

A teeming ecosystem

  • Large incubators: Station F, Le Swave, Le Cargo
  • Dedicated educational facilities: Ecole 42, Le Wagon
  • Supportive regulators (dedicated divisions)
  • Easy access to financing
  • La Place, the meeting place for fintech companies in Paris
A dynamic green and sustainable financial center

The commitment of French players to responsible investment is not new: first initiatives were launched in the early 2000s and players have gradually developed recognized expertise in the various fields of sustainable finance, whether in SRI (socially responsible investment) management, in taking climate risk into account, or in solidarity and social finance.

Today, assets under management in France which fulfill SRI criteria amount to EUR 1,458 billion, representing one-third of the total asset management assets under management.

Paris is the world leader for environmental finance:

  • The 3rd largest green bond issuer in the world;
  • 20% market share of French banks on "green" vehicles;
  • A pioneer in biodiversity protection (more than 550 million euros are managed in French funds targeting positive impacts on biodiversity).

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Our aim is to work towards the development of an innovative and united Europe, attentive to its territories and determined to combine the economic with the social. Thus, the Paris financial center aims to promote the social utility of finance by contributing to the emergence of social inclusion tools, such as microfinance or micro-credits, or more generally solidarity finance tools.
Recognized expertise and know-how in infrastructure financing
  • Paris hosts a high number of large corporations active in the energy, transportation and telecommunication sectors.
  • Grand Paris Express is the largest infrastructure project in Europe, with 200 km of new metro lines, 8 stations, 4 new metro lines. In total, Société du Grand Paris will devote nearly €35 billion to the construction of the new metro; it issued its third green bond worth 1 billion euros in May 2019.
  • New constructions for the 2024 Olympic Games are estimated to be worth 1.5 billion euros. Work is to start in early 2021.
  • At the end of 2018, the capital under management to finance infrastructure reached 57 billion euros.
  • In 2018, 14.6 billion euros was raised, double the amount raised in 2017 and 6.5 billion euros was invested in 170 operations.
  • The growing share of investments in sectors related to the energy transition underlines the role it plays in the promotion of responsible investment.
A business-friendly environment

New reforms have made labor rules more flexible, reduced the cost of labor, increased the attractiveness of the tax environment, improved the legal framework and enhanced the general business environment and infrastructures (including the international schooling offer).

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