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Banque D'Outremer
The Banque d'Outremer (), initially known as the Compagnie Internationale pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (CICI) was a Belgian financial institution, established in 1899 in the context of the exploitation of the Congo Free State, and eventually merged into the Société Générale de Belgique in 1928. Despite its name, the Banque d'Outremer acted mostly as an investment company that invested into projects in Congo but also Canada, China, the Dutch East Indies, and Russia. Overview Following King Leopold II's creation of the Congo Free State in 1885, his colonial secretary Albert Thys in 1886 formed the Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (CCCI) to exploit the territory's resources. On , on Thys's initiative, the CICI was formed in Brussels; its founding shareholders were the Société Générale de Belgique (SGB, 14.5 percent), Banque Lambert (7.4 percent), Banque de Bruxelles (4 percent), as well as groups of French investors led by the Banque de Paris et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Cassel
Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, (3 March 1852 – 21 September 1921) was a British merchant banker and capitalist. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17. Life and career Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia (now part of Germany), the son of Amalia (née Rosenheim) and Jacob Cassel. His family were Ashkenazi Jews. His father owned a small bank, but the son Ernest arrived penniless in Liverpool, England in 1869. There he found employment with a firm of grain merchants. With an enormous capacity for hard work and a strong business sense, Cassel was soon in Paris working for a bank. Being of Prussian origin, the Franco-Prussian War forced him to move to a position in a London bank. He prospered and was soon putting together his own financial deals. His areas of interest were in mining, infrastructure and heavy industry. Turkey was an early area of business ventures, but he soon had large interests in Sweden, the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs
The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (FPS Foreign Affairs) is the foreign affairs ministry of Belgium and is responsible for Belgian foreign policy, relations with the European Union, development cooperation policy and certain aspects of foreign trade policy. The central government in Brussels directs the network of diplomatic and consular representations abroad. Mission, core tasks and vision The following are the mission, core tasks and vision of the FPS Foreign Affairs. Mission The FPS Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation represents, defends and promotes the interests of Belgium and Belgians abroad, promotes the coherence of foreign action and coordinates Belgium's European policy as a federal country. The FPS Foreign Affairs strives for a safe, just and prosperous world. Core tasks The most important tasks of the FPS Foreign Affairs can be summarised as follows: * the defence of Belgium's politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Brunfaut
Jules Brunfaut (Brussels, 16 November 1852 – 4 January 1942) was a Belgium, Belgian architect and engineer who worked around the turn of the twentieth century. He is best known perhaps for the Hôtel Hannon, a residence for photographer and engineer Édouard Hannon, which is, ironically, his only building designed in the Art Nouveau style. Biography Jules Brunfaut was born in Brussels on 16 November 1852. The descendant of a Walloons, Walloon family originating in Tournai and based in Ypres, he completed high school at the Royal Athénée in Brussels. Brunfaut then followed the courses of the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Ghent.Dominique Bonnet, ''Jules Brunfaut 1852-1942'', Mémoire présenté en vue de l'obtention du grade légal d'architecte auprès de l'I.S.A.E., 1985. Afterwards, he moved to Brussels. While following the courses of Félix Laureys (1820–1897) at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1873 to 1879, he completed four years of professional prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Palace Of Brussels
The Royal Palace of Brussels (french: Palais royal de Bruxelles, , nl, Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel , german: Königlicher Palast von Brüssel) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital, Brussels. However, it is not used as a royal residence, as the king and his family live in the Royal Palace of Laeken in northern Brussels. The website of the Belgian Monarchy describes the function of the palace as follows: The first nucleus of the present-day building dates from the end of the 18th century. However, the grounds on which the palace stands were once part of the Coudenberg Palace, a very old palatial complex that dated back to the Middle Ages. The facade existing today was only built after 1900 on the initiative of King Leopold II. The Royal Palace is situated in front of Brussels Park, from which it is separated by a long square called the /. The middle axis of the park marks both the middle peristyle of the Royal Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caisse Générale De Reports Et De Dépôts
The ''Caisse Générale de Reports et de Dépôts'' (CGRD, sometimes CGR&D) was a bank headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1874, its business was reorganized in 1940 under the new name ''Banque de Reports et de Dépôts'' (BRD). It was eventually absorbed in 1953 by the Banque Lambert. Overview The CGRD was established in 1874 and initially specialized in collateral loans to stockbrokers. ( refers to bank lending that enables leveraged securities trading.) In the early 20th century, the CGRD commissioned a prominent head office building in the downtown banking district of Brussels, designed by architect Paul Saintenoy and completed in 1911. In 1935, Belgian banker , a former general manager of the Banque d'Outremer, became the CGRD's controlling shareholder by acquiring an equity stake previously held by the Société Générale de Belgique as the latter spun off most of its banking operations as the Générale de Banque. In 1939, a year after Fabri's death, the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Of Flanders
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because banks play an important role in financial stability and the economy of a country, most jurisdictions exercise a high degree of regulation over banks. Most countries have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking, under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, the Basel Accords. Banking in its modern sense evolved in the fourteenth century in the prosperous cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways functioned as a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banque Belge Pour L'Étranger
The ''Banque Belge pour l'Étranger'' (BBE, "Belgian Bank for Lands Abroad") was a Belgian bank that operated mainly in Asia. It was originally established in 1902 in Brussels as the ''Banque Sino-Belge'' ("Chinese-Belgian Bank"), by the Société Générale de Belgique at the request of King Leopold II of Belgium. Its Hong Kong operation, initiated in 1935, was later renamed the Belgian Bank in 1980, ''Générale de Banque belge pour l’Étranger'' in 1985, General Belgian Bank in 1992, and Fortis Bank Asia ( zh, 華比富通銀行) in 2000, before being sold in 2005 to ICBC (Asia), the Hong Kong subsidiary of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. History The Banque Sino-Belge was created in 1902, as Belgium, like other foreign powers with presence in China, was entitled to payments from the Qing Dynasty empire under the Boxer Protocol. Alongside the Société Générale de Belgique, its original investors included the (which would merge into the Banque Sino-Belge in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Occupation Of Belgium During World War I
The German occupation of Belgium (french: link=no, Occupation allemande, nl, Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Beginning in August 1914 with the invasion of neutral Belgium, the country was almost completely overrun by German troops before the winter of the same year as the Allied forces withdrew westwards. The Belgian government went into exile, while King Albert I and the Belgian Army continued to fight on a section of the Western Front. Under the German military, Belgium was divided into three separate administrative zones. The majority of the country fell within the General Government, a formal occupation administration ruled by a German general, while the others, closer to the front line, came under more repressive direct military rule. The German occupation coincided with a widespread economic collapse in Belgium with shortages and widespread unemployment, but also with a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banque Du Congo Belge
The Banque du Congo Belge (1909-1960), Banque Belgo-Congolaise also known as Belgolaise (1960-2012), Banque du Congo (1960-1971), Banque Commerciale Zaïroise (1971-1997), and Banque Commerciale Du Congo (BCDC, 1997-2020) all refer to a banking group that operated mainly in the Belgian Congo from 1909 to 1960, the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) from 1960 to 1964, the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1964 to 1971, Zaire from 1971 to 1997, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 to 2020, going through a number of reorganizations over more than a century. In 2012, Brussels-based Belgolaise was wound down by its then owner Fortis Group, and in 2020, Kinshasa-based BCDC merged with Equity Bank Congo (EBC) to form Equity Banque Commerciale du Congo. Background Following King Leopold II's creation of the Congo Free State in 1885, his colonial secretary Albert Thys in 1886 formed the Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (CCCI) to exploit the te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Francqui
Émile Francqui (; 25 June 1863 in Brussels – 1 November 1935 in Brussels) was a Belgian soldier, diplomat, business man and philanthropist. Career As an orphan, Émile Francqui was sent to a military school when he was just 15 years old. At the age of 21, like many young officers, he was sent to Congo Free State by king Leopold II of Belgium. In 1896, he became the Belgian consul in Imperial China and stayed there until 1902. In China he met the future American president Herbert Hoover during negotiations concerning the granting of the Hankow-Canton railroad concession in China in 1901. Although they were competitors, they respected each other very much and became friends. Francqui returned to Belgium in 1902, and began a financial career. He became the managing director of the ''Banque d'Outremer'', and managing director of the ''Union Minière du Haut Katanga'' (UMHK). Ten years after his return to Belgium, he became Director of the '' Société Générale de Belgiqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
