Belfius
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Belfius Bank and Insurance, known as Dexia Bank Belgium until 1 March 2012, is a Belgian state-owned bank that emerged from the dismantling of the Dexia group which had been purchased by the Belgian government on 10 October 2011 for 4 billion euros.
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins of Belfius
- Belgium: Gemeentekrediet van België / Crédit Communal de Belgique
- Belgium: BACOB / Artesia
- Dexia: Group
- Management Committee
- Bailout and purchase by the Belgian State
- New acquisitions & partial privatization (since 2025)
- See also
- References
- External links
Belfius Bank and Insurance, known as Dexia Bank Belgium until 1 March 2012, is a Belgian state-owned bank that emerged from the dismantling of the Dexia group which had been purchased by the Belgian government on 10 October 2011 for 4 billion euros.
Belfius has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belfius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.