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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 ...
The National Bank was created by Minister Walthère Frère-Orban in 1850 with a unique hybrid status: in the form of a limited company, but with the main objective to carry out missions of general interest entrusted to it by legislation of 5 May 1850, including replacing the Société Générale de Belgique (SGB) as fiscal agent of the Belgian government.
Below you will find a concise list of Belgian banks. The big four are KBC, Belfius, BNP Paribas Fortis, and ING. Bank name. Parent or group. Subsidiaries or previous names. Head office location. SWIFT BIC-code. Argenta (bank) [1] Argenta Group.
The Belgian Banking Commission (French: Commission bancaire) was a Belgian financial supervisory authority created in 1935 in the aftermath of the financial turmoil of the early 1930s. It was later renamed CBF in 1990 (French: Commission bancaire et financière, Dutch: Commissie voor het Bank- en Financiewezen), then CBFA in 2004 (French ...
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. It has been described as the world's first ...
2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis. The 2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis is a major financial crisis that hit Belgium from mid-2008 onwards. Two of the country's largest banks – Fortis and Dexia – started to face severe problems, exacerbated by the financial problems hitting other banks around the world. The value of their stocks plunged.
Banking in Belgium. Banking in Belgium, as of 11 October 2008, exhibits an average leverage ratio (assets/net worth) of 33 to 1, while the short-term liabilities of the banks are equivalent to 285% of the Belgian GDP or 367% of its national debt.
The Banque de Belgique was founded by liberal leader Charles de Brouckère on 26 February 1835. The aim was to partly offset the financial dominance in the country of the Société Générale de Belgique which was viewed as not providing savings services to the broader Belgian population, [ 1] and was also perceived as too much controlled by ...