Les banques belges face à l'État : une rétrospective (1935-1993)

Cassiers, Isabelle; Briey, Valérie De; Degavre, Florence; Provost, Anne-Catherine

doi:10.3406/ecofi.1998.4588

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“…Banks, which were less bound by legal restrictions, took the lead. They expanded their activities into new market segments (Cassiers et al, 1997). This was clearly reflected in the growth of the banks' market share in areas which had traditionally been the specialisation of public credit institutions and savings banks, like savings accounts and certificates.…”

Section: Changes In the Financial Landscapementioning

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The Regulation and Supervision of the Belgian Financial System (1830 - 2005)

Buyst

Maes

2008

SSRN Journal

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The Regulation and Supervision of the Belgian Financial System (1830 - 2005)

Buyst

Maes

2008

SSRN Journal

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“…Early studies in the 1980s (Vanthemsche 1980a, b) have paved the way for more extensive analysis of the impact of supervision on two major institutions: the central bank and the main commercial bank, the Société Générale (Van Der Wee and Tavernier 1975: 278-299;Van Der Wee 1997). More recent research has produced more in-depth studies of the development of banking supervision in Belgium (Cassiers et al 1998;Kurgan-van Hentenryk 2001;Maes and Buyst 2009;Moreau 2010;Giddey 2017a, b).…”

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Belgium: Formalization and Incremental Development of a Supervisor with Increasing Powers and Authority

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Wendschlag

Giddey

2021

Formalization of Banking Supervision

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The formalization process of Belgian banking supervision provides an interesting case. Mixed international influences as well as major domestic reforms influenced the direction of formalizing the supervisory system. It began in the middle of the 1930s as a consequence of the economic and financial crisis at the beginning of the decade. The reforms undertaken in 1934 and 1935 transformed the Belgian banking system from a free and unrestricted market, featuring very influential financial groups operating universal banking, to a supervised and more specialized banking system. However, based on our understanding of “formalization,” the process was not completed until the mid-1970s, because newly created formal supervision agency—the Banking Commission—initially functioned with very little resources and powers on a similar basis as its Swiss equivalent. In the post-Second World War era, the Belgian banking supervisor developed significantly, and its influence reached beyond mere prudential supervision. By the mid-1970s, the Banking Commission got involved in monetary and state financing policy, and the agency obtained the supervision of additional financial institutions.

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