This publication consists of three parts: the Macroprudential Report: a report on the Bank’s macroprudential supervision; the Financial Stability Overview: an overview of the main determinants of the ...

In its capacity as Macroprudential Authority, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) Board has undertaken its annual review of the designations of domestic systemically important banks The NBB has also ...

House prices have increased very strongly in the first COVID year and this increase was not driven by changes in the quality of the property sold. Turning to the longer term, the energy quality of ...

Full document (pdf). Executive summary. The Bank’s role in oversight and prudential supervision of financial market infrastructures, custodians, payment service providers and critical service ...

After the successful exhibition “Building a Dialogue” (2019) that brought together pieces out of the National Bank of Belgium and the Deutsche Bundesbank’s art collections, the NBB’s contemporary art ...

More robust data on wealth have recently become available, allowing a more thorough analysis of economic inequality. Is wealth inequality higher or lower in Belgium than in other European countries?

Brussels, August 2020 – Belgian firms estimate that their turnover is currently still 13 % below normal levels. This is certainly an improvement on the situation at the end of June (+4 percentage ...

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The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated unparalleled health measures, with whole swathes of the Belgian economy halted and restrictive measures imposed on the population, and normal ...

The main purpose of this Working Paper is providing an overview of the economic importance of the Flemish maritime ports, the Liège port complex and the port of Brussels over the period 2014–2019 in ...

Communication NBB_2025_07 / Orientations des autorités européennes de surveillance financière sur le Règlement européen sur les marchés des crypto-actifs ("MiCAR") et attentes de la Banque nationale ...

International institutions consider risks to the sustainability of Belgian public finances as “high”. But what is the debt outlook for the federal government, the regions and the communities within ...