Official website (https://www.kbc.com/)
Key facts
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- Euronext Brussels : KBC , LuxSE : KBC , BEL 20 component
- Isin
- BE0003565737
- Industry
- Financial services
- Founded
- 9 February 1935 ; 91 years ago ( 1935-02-09 ) (Kredietbank), present name (KBC Group) dates from 2005
- Headquarters
- Havenlaan 2, BE-1080 Brussels, Belgium
- Key people
- Koenraad Debackere ( Chairperson ) Johan Thijs [ nl ] ( CEO ) Bartel Puelinckx ( CFO )
- Products
- Retail banking corporate banking investment banking insurance private banking private equity mortgage loans credit cards investment management wealth management asset management mutual funds exchange-traded funds index funds
- Revenue
- € 7.629 billion (2019)
- Net income
- €2.489 billion (2019)
- Aum
- €216 billion (2019)
- Total assets
- €396.820 billion (Q1 2026)
- Total equity
- €20.4 billion (end 2019)
- Number of employees
- 37,854 ( FTE , end 2019)
- Website
- www .kbc .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
KBC Group N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank (KB), the cooperative CERA Bank [nl], ABB Insurance, and Fidelitas Insurance. The acronym KBC stands for KredietBank and CERA.
KBC Group is one of Belgium's major companies and the second largest bancassurer in the country. As of late 2020, it was the 15th largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation and a major financial player in Central and Eastern Europe, employing some 41,000 staff (of which more than half in Central and Eastern Europe) and serving 12 million customers worldwide (some 7 to 8 million in Central and Eastern Europe). KBC is a Forbes Global 2000 company.
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