BNP Paribas

January 4, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History

Yesterday, Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens o...

September 15, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkish Officials Charged in Iran Sanctions-Busting Case

U.S. authorities last week charged Turkey’s fo...

September 1, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Turkish Public Lender Joins Erdogan’s Washington Lobbying Spree

Turkey’s second-largest public lender Halkbank has reportedly...

August 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...

April 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

French Bank Said to Have Dropped Major BDS Account

One of the world’s largest banks, the Paris-based BNP Paribas, may have closed the account last year of a French organization that advocates boycotting Israel. After the former president of...

April 3, 2017 | |

Severing China-North Korea Financial Links

Chinese companies and banks are complicit in Pyongyang’s efforts to evade financial sanctions. Washington should authorize the Treasury Department to impose fines against banks that aid Nor...

November 28, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: German bank pulls plug on anti-Israel BDS bank account

The Bank fur Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) has closed the account of a German group that promotes the ...

October 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Bank of Ireland shuts down anti-Israel BDS accounts

The Bank of Ireland- the country’s oldest financial institution—shut down the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The termination of the pro-BDS group’s...

September 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal, Sheryl Saperia

Greens Should Follow Germany’s Lead And Reject Israel Boycotts

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky. While Iran's regime continues to expand its nuclear facilities and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's war has caused a half million deaths,...

August 29, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

In Germany, Israelis help to launch anti-BDS group

Israelis along with Germans launched the Action Forum group, which included a protest against BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists targeting Jewish state products in front of a Berlin d...

June 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Second largest German bank shuts anti-Israel BDS account

In the latest of a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jer...

June 8, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Kudos to Cuomo for leading the way on BDS

Gov. Cuomo’s issuance Sunday of an order banning New York State’s executive branch from doing official business with companies that participate in the boycott of Israel is the opening...

May 31, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

PayPal terminates anti-Israel BDS France account

PayPal, a global leader in online payment services, blocked payments to the anti-Israel movement Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) chapter in France in May. The Jerusalem Post confirm...

May 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: Major French bank closes anti-Israel BDS account

The massive French bank Credit Mutuel shut down the account of La Campagne BDS France amid escalating criticism over the illegal practices of supporting financial transactions that target Israel...

May 11, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How New York can help stop Europe’s rampaging Israel boycotters

Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In America, the odious boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel remains largely confined to university humanities departments, l...

May 2, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Giant Austrian bank shuts down BDS account

One of Austria's largest companies – the Erste Group – closed a bank account held by BDS Austria. The Vienna-based BDS Austria announced on Friday on its ...

April 27, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: French government indicates giant bank violates anti-BDS law

The French embassy in Israel announced that an account held by Campaign BDS France with Credit Mutuel bank appears to violate the law. "The French opposition against any form of boycott...

March 4, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German BDS group confirms bank closed its account

The hardcore BDS-Kampagne (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign) announced on its website that the French-German DAB Bank in Munich will terminate its account on April 14. In what...

February 19, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Despite Stillborn Deal, Saudi-Russian Petrodiplomacy Could Reshape The Future Of Oil

The Saudi-Iran grudge match still hangs over the oil patch.  Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two largest oil exporters, finally reached an ...

February 12, 2016 | Annie Fixler |

Global Banks Wrestle with Iran’s Return

The Bank of England, according to a report from the Financial Times last week, reacti...