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Rank Bank Total assets (billions of US dollars) Headquarter city 1 : HSBC: 2,919.84 London: 2 : BNP Paribas: 2,867.44 Paris: 3 : Crédit Agricole: 2,736.95 Paris
Former head office building of Banque Lambert in Brussels, completed in 1965 (lately ING Belgium), with the equestrian Statue of Leopold II in the foreground. The Banque Lambert (French pronunciation: [bɑ̃k lɑ̃bɛʁ]) was a significant family-controlled bank in Belgium, with roots going back to 1835 and long associated with the Rothschilds.
In the 2010 Fortune Global 500 (which lists companies by total income) [7] Dexia was ranked 49th, the top-ranked Belgian company. [8]The company was founded in 1996 through the merger of Crédit Communal de Belgique (founded in 1860) and Crédit Local de France (founded in 1987).
Fortis, formally Fortis N.V./S.A., was a Benelux-centered global financial services group active in insurance, banking and investment management, initially formed in 1990 by a three-way Belgian-Dutch merger and headquartered in Brussels.
Bank Duta subsequently collapsed in the 1998 Asian financial crisis, and Rabobank bought Duta's share to operate solely as PT Bank Rabobank International Indonesia. In 1994, it purchased Primary Industry Bank of Australia (PIBA), which had operations in Australia and New Zealand, and renamed it Rabobank Australia Limited in 2003. [ 9 ]
In August 1914, when Belgium was invaded by Germany, King Albert allowed Leopold, then aged twelve, to enlist in the Belgian army as a private and fight in defence of the kingdom. However, in 1915, with Belgium almost entirely occupied by the Germans, Leopold was sent to attend Eton College, while his father fought on in France. [2] [3]
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.
Building at Rue de la Régence 4 in Brussels, former head office of Euroclear Seat of Euroclear Bank in Kraków, Poland. Euroclear acquired Sicovam (the French central securities depository or CSD) in 2001, Necigef (Nederlands Centraal Instituut voor Giraal Effectenverkeer), the Dutch and CRESTCo Ltd, the CSD for UK & Irish securities using the CREST application in 2002.