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BNP Paribas Fortis is an international bank based in Belgium and is a subsidiary of French banking group BNP Paribas. The bank was created in May 2009 after BNP Paribas acquired 75% of the shares of the Belgian Fortis Bank from the Federal Participation and Investment Company. It was formerly, together with Fortis Bank Nederland, the banking ...
The German-speaking Community of Belgium numbers 77,000, residing in an area of Belgium that was ceded by the former German Empire as part of the Treaty of Versailles, which concluded World War I. In 1940, Nazi Germany re-annexed the region following its invasion of Belgium during World War II ; after the war it was returned to Belgium.
History Background French economist Raphaël-Georges Lévy (1853-1933) was a precocious proponent of an international bank, for which he suggested a location in Switzerland Belgian statesman Léon Delacroix (1867–1929) was an early promoter of the BIS and died during the negotiations to create it
Société Belge de Banque. Building at Avenue Louise 61, head office of the SBB from 1931 to 1965, photographed in 1980 as a local branch of the. The Société Belge de Banque ( SBB, lit. 'Belgian Banking Company') was a medium-sized Belgian bank, established in 1901 as the Banque Générale Belge ( lit. 'General Belgian Bank'), renamed in 1932 ...
It provided retail and commercial banking services to individuals and businesses in Belgium, together with related financial products such as insurance and asset management. In 2003, ING rebranded BBL as ING Belgium. The headquarters of BBL, now an office of ING Group, was the former head office building of Bank Lambert on Marnixlaan 24, Brussels.
v. t. e. Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website or mobile app. Since the early 2000s this has become the most common way that ...
Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and is the second most popular tourist destination in the country, under the management of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority.
BIO was formed in 2001 to fund investment projects in developing and/or emerging countries. BIO invests to help those economies attain some of the Sustainable Development Goals. At the beginning, the company financed regional or local intermediary structures, such as banks and investment funds. This was done to limit BIO's risk, allowing the ...