The Bank’s role in oversight and prudential supervision of financial market infrastructures, custodians, payment service providers and critical service providers Critical nodes in the functioning of ...

One of the National Bank’s core tasks is to ensure that the Belgian financial system can weather challenges without putting in jeopardy its main economic functions. You can read about how stable the ...

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 ...

Thanks to the cooperation between two central banks, some masterpieces from the contemporary art collection of Banco de España will be showcased on Belgian soil for the first time ever jointly with ...

Direct value added at Belgian ports grew by 1.4% in 2019. The increase was particularly evident at the ports of Antwerp and Liège, partly owing to wider capacity at nuclear power plants, after lower ...

Economic Review Publication date 20 Dec 2021 - 15:00 Authors M. Nautet C. Piton Download the article Press Release ...

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 ...

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 ...

In order to tackle procyclicality in the financial system, prudential authorities have an efficient tool at their disposal: the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB). This is a temporary buffer that ...

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 ...

Thanks to a solid starting position, the Belgian financial sector was able to complement public support measures for severely affected companies and households with payment deferrals for current loans ...

In June 2019, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) decided to activate the CCyB. However, the global economy is now facing important challenges, and the NBB does not expect the impact of the coronavirus ...