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The Société générale de Belgique ( Dutch: Generale Maatschappij van België, lit. 'General Company of Belgium'; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société Générale" or SGB) was an investment bank and, subsequently, an industrial and financial conglomerate in Belgium between 1822 and 2003. The banking element was split in 1935 and ...
FinTS. FinTS ( Financial Transaction Services ), formerly known as HBCI ( Home Banking Computer Interface ), is a bank-independent protocol for online banking, developed and used by German banks. HBCI was originally designed by Germany's three banking "pillar" networks, namely the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, German Cooperative Financial Group, and ...
Plan XVII ( pronounced [plɑ̃ dis.sɛt]) was the name of a "scheme of mobilization and concentration" that was adopted by the French Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre (the peacetime title of the French Grand Quartier Général) from 1912 to 1914, to be put into effect by the French Army in a war between France and Germany.
BGL BNP Paribas (formerly Banque Générale du Luxembourg or BGL) is a Luxembourgish bank founded on 29 September 1919. Since May 2009, the bank has been a member of the BNP Paribas group. It is the fifth-largest bank in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg [1] and is the country's second-largest employer. [2] [3] BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg City, 2015.
The Yser ( US: / iːˈzɛər / ee-ZAIR, [1] French: [izɛʁ]; Dutch: IJzer [ˈɛizər] ⓘ) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France ), enters the Belgian province of West Flanders and flows through the Ganzepoot and into the North Sea at the town of Nieuwpoort . The source of the Yser is in Buysscheure ( Buisscheure ), in ...
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle ( French: [dəgʁɛl]; 15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex). During the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, he enlisted in the German army and fought in the ...
Quintet Private Bank is a medium-sized Luxembourg -headquartered bank and wealth manager, founded in 1949 by Belgium's Kredietbank as Kredietbank Luxembourg ( KBL ), later rebranded KBL European Private Bankers or KBL ebp, and to its present name in 2020. Since 2011, it has been owned by members of the Al-Thani family of Qatar through the ...
The State Bank and Savings Bank ( French: Banque et Caisse d'Épargne de l'État ), also known by its Luxembourgish name Spuerkeess ( lit. 'Savings Bank' ), is the leading national financial institution founded in 1856 and governed by the law of 24 March 1989. Spuerkeess is a commercial bank wholly owned by the government of Luxembourg .