Sep
08
Bank of France Nominee Villeroy to Be Grilled on BNP Links
ByFrancois Villeroy de Galhau, the former BNP Paribas SA executive who was nominated on Tuesday to run the Bank of France, will now have to fend off questions about conflicts of interest.
Villeroy spent 12 years at France’s biggest lender, joining the executive committee in 2008 and becoming chief operating officer in 2011 before leaving this year. His new role would put him on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, giving him a say in bank supervision and regulation as well as its 1.14 trillion-euro ($1.3 trillion) bond-buying program…