KBC Group

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KBC Group NV

logo
legal form Corporation
ISIN BE0003565737
founding 1998
Seat Brussels , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
management
  • Johan Thijs ( CEO )
Number of employees 41,000 (2019)
sales 7.63 billion euros (2019)
Branch banks and insurance companies
Website www.kbc.com
As of December 31, 2019

The KBC Group NV is an international active financial companies from Belgium , which on the stock exchange in Brussels in the stock index BEL20 listed.

The bank focuses on private customers and small and medium-sized companies. In addition to the banking business, insurance and investments are offered (in association with the companies KBC Insurance NV and KBC Asset Management NV). KBC Asset Management is a company for asset management .

Around 41,000 people are employed in the company, which serves around 10 million customers. KBC Bank (2008), 3.9 million of them in Belgium.

history

The KBC Group was formed in 1998 from the merger of the three Belgian companies Kredietbank, ABB Verzekeringen (ABB Insurance) and CERA Bank.

Company structure and main areas

KBC Group NV is the parent company of the following companies:

  • KBC Bank NV & KBC Insurance NV in Belgium
  • ČSOB Group & ČSOB Pojišt'ovna in the Czech Republic
  • ČSOB and ČSOB Poist'ovňa in Slovakia
  • K&H Bank and K&H Insurance in Hungary
  • CIBANK and DZI Insurance in Bulgaria
  • KBC Bank Ireland plc in Ireland

On October 10, 2011, it was announced that the Belgian KBC Group was selling its KBL European Private Bankers division for EUR 1.05 billion to a Luxembourg holding company called Precision Capital, backed by an undisclosed investor from Qatar . The KBL Group also includes the French Richelieu Banque Privee, Brown Shipley & Co in Great Britain and Theodoor Gilissen Bankiers in the Netherlands.

All other companies are in turn direct or indirect subsidiaries of these four companies.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Who are we? In: kbc.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020 (English).
  2. Our financial performance. In: kbc.com. Retrieved February 27, 2020 (English).
  3. Private bank Merck Finck is going to Qatar for the second time. on: Reuters Germany. October 10, 2011.