PARIS: Frances biggest bank BNP Paribas SA said Jean Lemierre will become chairman after Baudouin Prot resigned, the most senior official to step down in the wake of a record United States fine. Prot, 63, will step down on December 1 and be replaced by Lemierre, a former head of the French Treasury and a senior adviser at BNP since 2008, the bank said in a statement yesterday. œI was chief executive officer and then chairman during the turbulent years that were marked by the particularly testing climate of the financial crisis and its aftermath. I have made a decision to take a step back, Prot said. Bloomberg
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