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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.
The company, formerly known as Fortis, Inc., was spun off from Dutch and Belgian financial-services company Fortis Insurance N.V. in 2004. The company's initial public offering on Feb. 5, 2004 at $1.76 billion was the fourth largest that year. In connection with the public offering, the company changed its name to Assurant, Inc. [4] [5]
Fortis Inc. is a St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador-based international diversified electric utility holding company. It operates in Canada , the United States , Central America , and the Caribbean .
Until 2009, the bank was known as Fortis MeesPierson. The name derives from the November 1992 merger of merchant banks Mees & Hope (founded by Franco Cordelois, Jan de Vrijer & Rudolf & Gregorius Mees as Cordelois, de Vrijer & Mees in 1720, becoming G. Mees & Zoon and was renamed R. Mees & Zoonen which merged with Hope & Co. (founded by Scots Jan & Henry Hope in 1762) in 1962) and Pierson ...
In July 2010, Fortis Insurance Company Asia Limited was renamed as Ageas Insurance Company (Asia) Limited to align with the new brand adopted by the parent company Ageas. In May 2016, JD Group successfully acquired Ageas Insurance Company (Asia) Limited from Ageas Group.
BNP Paribas Fortis is a 25% shareholder of Batopin (Belgian ATM Optimisation Initiative), a Belgian company that was established jointly by BNP Paribas Fortis, KBC, Belfius and ING Belgium on 10 March 2020. The company manages an ATM park for the four participating banks under the neutral brand name Bancontact CASH, independent of the shareholders.
Among its records are, for example, eight collections of Caribbean and English newspapers 1761–1846, reports of the Acting Committee to the Half-Yearly Meeting of the Standing Committee of West India Planters and Merchants, 1878–1883, and albums of photographs and press cuttings on the 1907 Kingston earthquake in Jamaica, a country that was ...