Belfius

Belfius ( in Dutch Belfius Bank & Verzekeringen, in French Belfius Banque et Assurances ) (before March 1, 2012 Dexia Bank Belgium ) is a company that offers banking and insurance services. It is a commercial corporation whose first appointment was to respond to the needs of local authorities. It emerged from the dismantling of the Dexia Group, of which she was until 10 October 2011. It was been bought for 4 billion euros by the Belgian State. Its registered office is located in Brussels.

• 3.1 Board of Directors
• 3.2 Steering Committee

Activities

The main activities of Belfius bank and insurance companies exist in the provision of loans to the public sector, the offering of financial services to individuals and businesses (Retail Bank and Commercial Bank ) and insurance.

Development

Belgium: community credit of Belgium

Belgium: BACOB / Artesia

Dexia: Group

The merger between Dexia Bank and Artesia BC was associated with certain advantages and corresponded to specific objectives:

• Expansion of the retail clientele from 15 to 25 %
• Became one of the market leader in the bancassurance sector
• Development towards a full-fledged player in private banking activities
• Positioning among the top 3 of the Belgian market in terms of asset management
• Maintaining a position as a reference bankers in the public and non-profit sector.

Of Dexia Belgium to Belfius

5 September 2011 Jos Clijsters was - appointed President of the Management Committee of Dexia Bank Belgium - at this time advisor to the Management Committee of Dexia AG. He succeeds Stefaan Decraene, who left the group for an international function in another group.

On 4 October 2011 the clientele attracted due to various negative news in one day 300 million euros from the bank from. As a result of this information declared by the Belgian and French governments that they want to vouch for the bank and split the company in order to save the healthy parts and isolate the risks. On October 10, 2011, the acquisition of the Belgian part of Dexia Group, Dexia Bank Belgium, announced by the Belgian State. This acquisition was completed at a price of 3.73 billion euros. The Belgian government also decided to participate in the amount of 60.5 % ( 54.45 billion euros ) to finance guarantee scheme in favor of Dexia AG. On 19 March 2012, the Dexia shares left the Bel 20

On 1 January 2014 Jos Clijsters resigned from his position down as President of the Steering Committee and clothed henceforth the function of the Chairman. Marc Raisière succeeds him as president of the management committee.

Name and visual identity ( logo)

On March 1, 2012, from Dexia Bank Belgium Belfius banking and insurance. The new name Belfius consists of " Bel " for " Belgium ", "fi" for " Finance " and "us " (English) for " us " together ".

The equal sign in the middle of the logo is not just a mathematical signs, but also stands for the new equilibrium between the bank and its customers. In some words, a locally based Belgian banking and insurance group with the challenge in different ways to create value for the Company with a focus on listening to customers and learning from them.

Management

Board of Directors

• Jos Clijsters, President
• Marie- Gemma Dequae
• Wouter Devriendt
• Carine Doutrelepont
• Pierre Francotte
• Guy Quadi
• Chris Sunt
• Lutgart Van den Berghe
• Rudi Vander Vennet
• Serge Wibaut

Steering Committee

• Marc Raisière, President
• Dirk Vanderschrick, cash and financial markets
• Dirk Gyselinck, Public & Wholesale Banking
• Eric Hermann, Chief Risk Officer
• Johan Vankelecom, Chief Financial Officer
• Luc Van Thielen, Chief Operations Officer ( IT, Operations, Facilities Management and Organization)

Partnership

Belfius is the main partner of the football team of FC Bruges and the basketball teams Belfius Mons- Hainaut ( men) and BC Belfius Namur Capitale (women).