BNP Paribas - a European leader in banking and financial services and one of the largest international banking networks - won the 2008 award of the most innovative Islamic Finance House of the Year 2008 at the recently concluded Banker Investment Banking Awards in London. BNP Paribas' Islamic Banking Unit, Najmah, since then, was established in Bahrain in 2003, and since then, the team has demonstrated financially innovative ideas and has been first to market with a cross-border equity linked product, an Islamic structured product in South East Asia and a Shariah-compliant exchange traded fund based on global index.
