by David Dumoulin | May 11, 2022 | Capital Advisory
In the old days, you could meet with your banker over lunch and agree for the next year’s funding. Today, this has become unthinkable. In the context of ongoing digitalization and further de-risking, banks continue to build a system that easily evaluates whether...
by Sébastien D’Hondt | Apr 14, 2022 | Capital Advisory
It is now a well-known story that for the last two years, the world has been financially flooded by easy and very cheap money from the FED (US) and the ECB (Europe). The FED balance sheet has now reached almost one third of the US Federal debt and both the ECB’s and...
by Philippe Fleurier | Dec 21, 2021 | Capital Advisory
When it comes to funding, companies almost instinctively turn to banks. They often have an established relationship with their banks and it is rather convenient – but not as easy as they imagine – to get bank financing. But what banks propose is not always adapted to...
by David Dumoulin | Dec 7, 2021 | Capital Advisory
Real Estate Your most valuable assets are an important source to maximize your financing through a (finance) lease. But it can be complex. Will you get the best leasing solution? A real estate lease must be customized on a tax, legal, accounting and business-economic...
by Philippe Fleurier | Oct 22, 2021 | Capital Advisory
80 banks are registered with the National Bank of Belgium. Beyond the banks incorporated under Belgian law (28), branches of foreign banks are also active in Belgium, both from the European Economic Area (46) and from non-EEA countries (6). France, The Netherlands and...
by Antonia Lauterbach | Sep 30, 2021 | Capital Advisory
In the past few years, the financial sector started acknowledging the important effects of ESG-related problematics in their long-term investment and credit portfolios. Starting with the alarming pace of climate change, lenders and investors realized the amount of...