Partnerships
BNP Paribas, Google Cloud Enter Five-Year Agentic AI Partnership
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BNP Paribas and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership on September 24, 2026, expanding the bank’s access to Google Cloud’s AI-optimized infrastructure, Gemini models and Gemini Enterprise, with initial agentic AI use cases planned in the bank’s Corporate & Institutional Banking division.
The companies announced the agreement with a dual dateline of Paris and Sunnyvale, California. Under its terms, BNP Paribas gains expanded access to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and advanced AI capabilities. The companies said Google Cloud technologies will support the growth of the bank’s infrastructure and AI capabilities as it moves toward broader deployment of agentic AI, and said the agreement reinforces the multi-cloud and multi-model strategy the bank already operates within its established security and data governance framework.
Marc Camus, Group Chief Information Officer of BNP Paribas, said the bank’s technology function exists to give the group’s businesses the capabilities they need while keeping a consistent framework for security and control. He said a multi-cloud and multi-model approach lets the bank select the right model, infrastructure and level of control for each case, meet its quality and security requirements, and strike the best balance between cost and value. The partnership, he said, strengthens that approach and widens the options available to the bank’s businesses.
Initial Use Cases in Corporate & Institutional Banking
Under the agreement, BNP Paribas will have access to Gemini Enterprise. The companies said the bank will use it to build, evaluate and deploy purpose-built agents matched to specific business needs. Initial deployment begins in the bank’s Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) division.
According to the announcement, the first planned deployments in CIB are AI agents assigned to targeted workflows, including the preparation of corporate credit memos to assist teams. Further applications are planned across the division’s sales, trading, research and structuring activities.
Gemini models will also be integrated into LLM@CIB, the division’s internal generative AI assistant, which the companies describe as currently available to more than 65,000 employees.
Charles Holive, Chief AI Officer of BNP Paribas CIB, said the division’s AI work starts with the business need: the bank assesses which technology best fits each use case, then deploys it inside the bank’s security and governance framework. He said agentic AI can help teams take on more complex workflows while keeping the appropriate level of control.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, called agentic AI a critical shift in the way global financial institutions streamline operations, assess risk and serve their clients. He said BNP Paribas is pairing its banking leadership with Google Cloud’s secure infrastructure and Gemini Enterprise to deploy intelligent agents within platforms across the bank.
Governance Controls and Group-Wide AI Adoption
The announcement describes the deployment as operating within a controlled, enterprise-grade governance framework. BNP Paribas said the use of Google Cloud under the partnership will follow its existing security and data governance requirements, which determine the types of data and workloads that can be processed in a public cloud environment. Under those requirements, certain categories of data will not be held in a public cloud environment.
According to the announcement, security is a key pillar of the bank’s agentic AI strategy. Each agent will be authenticated and will receive access only to the resources its assigned task requires, and the bank will monitor and control both the connection of AI agents to the group’s information systems and the agents’ interactions.
Google Cloud and Gemini technologies are already deployed elsewhere in the group. At Nickel, the bank’s payment account business within the Commercial, Personal Banking & Services division, Gemini is the foundational model behind Nickel Assist, which the companies say helps 200 customer advisers answer customer requests by drawing on Nickel’s procedures and operating guidelines.
The companies said the partnership will also contribute to BNP Paribas’ existing group-wide AI adoption program, completing ongoing initiatives with learning opportunities that range from foundational AI literacy to specialized AI agent development.
