Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank headquartered in Paris. The company provides wholesale banking, investment solutions, and specialized financial services. In wholesale banking, it offers mergers and acquisitions, primary equity and capital advisory, and access to capital markets, along with financing for aircraft, exports, infrastructure, energy and commodities, strategic and acquisition finance, and real estate finance. It also delivers portfolio management, global transaction banking, including account management, treasury, cash management, trade finance, and correspondent banking, as well as economic, credit, equity, and quantitative research. Its investment solutions include asset management, life and personal and property and casualty insurance solutions for retail and small business clients, private banking, and private equity financing for unlisted SMEs through sponsored equity holdings. Its specialized financial services comprise factoring, lease financing, consumer credit, sureties and financial guarantees, film industry financing, employee benefits planning, and payment and securities services.