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Bank name Parent or group Subsidiaries or previous names Head office location SWIFT BIC-code; Argenta (bank) [1] Argenta Group Antwerp: ARSP BE 22 Attijariwafa Bank Europe Belgium [2] Le Groupe Attijariwafa bank Brussels: WAFA BE BB AXA Bank: AXA Group Brussels: AXAB BE 22 Bank J.Van Breda & Co Ackermans & van Haaren (78.75%), Promofi (21.25% ...
Fortis Bank Nederland (formally Fortis Bank Nederland (Holding) N.V.) was a bank in the Netherlands until 2010. The holding came into being within Fortis Group, as a holding for those Dutch banks taken over by Fortis. In September–October 2008, the Dutch government first planned to invest €4 billion in exchange for an almost 50% interest in ...
In actuality, Belgium invested its stake into Fortis Bank SA/NV (Fortis's overall banking division) in return for newly issued shares, making up 49% of total outstanding shares in that company, with the Netherlands doing the same for Fortis Bank Nederland (part of Fortis Bank SA/NV).
De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam ING Group is one of the biggest banks in the world, and consistently ranks among the top 30 largest banks globally. With a history dating back to 1737, Van Lanschot Kempen is the oldest independent bank in the Netherlands , [ 1 ] the oldest independent bank in the Benelux [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and one of the oldest ...
ASR Bank and AMEV Bank N.V., merged with Fortis ASR; Bank Bercoop; CenE Bankiers, part of Van Lanschot Bankiers; DSB Bank, went bankrupt in 2009; Fortis N.V. Hollandsche Bank-Unie, acquired by Deutsche Bank; Hope & Co., became part of MeesPierson under ABN AMRO; Kempen & Co, merged with Van Lanschot Bankiers
The 2009 update of ISO 9362 broadened the scope to include non-financial institutions; before then BIC was commonly understood to be an acronym for Bank Identifier Code. There are over 7,500 "live" codes (for partners actively connected to the SWIFT network) and an estimated 10,000 additional BIC codes which can be used for manual transactions.
Fortis Bank was created in 1999 from the merger of Générale de Banque and ASLK / CGER in Belgium, and Generale Bank Nederland, VSB Bank and MeesPierson in the Netherlands. During the credit crisis, parent company Fortis ran into major financial problems by stalling in its acquisition of ABN AMRO Bank N.V., eventually resulting in a ...
After the global financial crisis of 2008, Fortis Bank's banking activities in the Netherlands are sold to the Dutch State. In Belgium, the State becomes a 99.93% shareholder of Fortis Bank. In 2009, BNP Paribas acquired 75% of Fortis Bank in Belgium, while the Belgian State acquired 10.3% of BNP Paribas' shares.