Natixis CIB partner of the 2022 ODDO BHF Live Forum

Natixis CIB was for the first time a partner of the ODDO BHF Live Forum with BBVA on January 10&11th, 2022.

For two days, great entrepreneurs and top-notch speakers from business and political fields around the world shared their visions of the future: the competition between China and the USA, Covid-19, the impact of climate change, the future of finance, technology and food...

Laurent Mignon, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Groupe BPCE, was interviewed with Philippe Oddo, General Partner and CEO of ODDO BHF. They discussed different topics as inflation, evolution of the European banking environment, importance of regulation since the 2008 crisis, digitalization and climate change as key factors for the future of banks.

Anne-Christine Champion, Co-Head of Natixis CIB, took part in the round table focus on: Climate Change +2°C, What does it take? with two major clients of the Natixis CIB: Fabienne Lecorvaisier, Executive Vice President at AIR LIQUIDE and Mathias Burghardt, Member of the Executive Committee and Head of ARDIAN Infrastructure Paris.

Anne-Christine Champion emphasized the importance of managing risks and opportunities linked to the climate change. Our ambition relies on four levers: industry mix, client mix, to support our clients to the transition, and active portfolio management. She highlighted the Green weighting Factor as a unique tool to measure the impact in terms of climate of any financing that Natixis provides. Fabienne Lecorvaisier explained how Air Liquide established an ambitious roadmap to accelerate the decarbonization of their activities to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. Mathias Burghardt talked about Ardian works with large industrials like Air Liquide, TotalEnergies to build the first worldwide clean energy infrastructure fund.