Ace Manager : the team INSIGHT wins the eighth edition of BNP Paribas’ online business competition

  2016-06-16 The “Insight” team, made up of 3 Ukrainian students coming from the National Taras Shevchenko University, emerged as winners of the final round of ‘Ace Manager – The Eight Set’, the Eighth annual international online business game for students run by BNP Paribas.
 
The final saw 10 teams, which had come out on top from the first phase, taking place in May, go head-to-head for the title. During the initial phase, competing teams of three students were asked to test their ability to perform a variety of banking-related jobs based on a number of financial case studies related with the BNP Paribas Group’s core business areas: Retail Banking, Asset Management and Corporate & Institutional Banking.
 
The final took place in parallel at the offices of BNP Paribas Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Moscow, Kiev, Paris and London. During the day, the ten finalist teams were asked to complete a final task in front of a jury composed of subject specialists and managers of BNP Paribas. The final was run in two separate phases.  During the first part of the day, the contestants worked on a financial case study impinging on the Group’s core business areas. In the afternoon the teams were set the task to present the vision of future banking integrated with Fintech and digitalization.
 
 
The winners:
1. Insight, a team consisting of three Ukrainian students enrolled at the National Taras Shevchenko University.
 
2.  Team China, a team composed of three Chinese students all studying at the Tsinghua University.
3. Thetago, a team consisting of three Chinese students following courses at ESSEC Business School in Paris.
 
4.  China Team, a team made up of three students - one from Indonesia and two from China who enrolled at the Tsinghua University.
 
5.   LBS Acers, a team of three Chinese students pursuing studies at London Business School.
 
The top three teams will receive €6,000 plus a trip to Paris, €3,000, and €1,500 respectively. All teams will receive tickets for tennis events. In addition, for three consecutive years, BNP Paribas has offered all the finalists a broad range of international internship opportunities in one or more of the Group’s two core business areas.
 
The ‘Ace Manager - The eighth Set’ business game was designed by BNP Paribas in-house specialists. In line with the Group’s overall growth strategy, this annual contest is part of the Bank’s policy of raising the profile of BNP Paribas among young people. The game has special attraction outside France, where the  BNP Paribas brand is quite well known to a business clientele but less so among younger people. BNP Paribas has set itself the goal of becoming one of the most attractive employer brands among students worldwide.
 
The purpose of the Ace Manager competition is to highlight, in the setting of a game, the key role of the professional banker in assisting clients looking to finance their plans and projects, and thus helping to drive the real economy.
 
In order to help raise brand awareness and enhance its appeal to students at the best universities and colleges all over the world, the Bank has based the Ace Manager game on the world of tennis, a sport with which the BNP Paribas brand is already closely linked due the Group’s 40-year sponsorship of the game. The Bank is moreover well-placed to recruit and offer highly interesting career prospects to young talent. Today 68% of BNP Paribas staff and customers are located outside France and the Group constantly recruits people with a diverse range of educational qualifications and personal backgrounds for its 300-plus job profiles.
 
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