KBC

KBC Group NV, headquartered in Brussels, is a bank-insurance group that offers integrated financial services primarily to retail clients, private banking, and small to medium-sized enterprises. The company provides a wide range of products including demand deposits, savings accounts, home and mortgage loans, consumer finance, and SME funding. Additionally, KBC Group offers various insurance products, investment fund and asset management services, cash management, payments, trade finance, and corporate finance. As of December 31, 2019, KBC operated numerous branches across Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ireland, serving customers through various channels, including agents and electronic platforms. KBC Private Equity, a division of KBC Group, focuses on providing development capital and financing for buy-outs in Belgium and Central and Eastern Europe, managing a diverse portfolio valued at over EUR 400 million. Founded in 1935 and rebranded in 2005, KBC Group continues to emphasize a long-term commitment to its investments and clients.

Kurt De Baenst

General Manager Investor Relations

Past deals in Balkans

NN Group-Pension and life insurance business

Acquisition in 2021
NN Group-Pension and life insurance businesses offer Life Insurance, Mandatory Pensions, and Voluntary Pensions.

United Bulgarian Bank

Acquisition in 2016
United Bulgarian Bank provides various banking products and services to individual, microbusiness, and corporate clients in Bulgaria. Its deposit products include savings accounts, current accounts, online deposits and accounts, and cash management accounts. The company also offers various loan products, including consumer loans, mortgage loans, overdrafts, revolving credit lines, working capital loans, investment loans, credit lines, agriculture loans, loans under European programs, guarantee programs, and credit programs, as well as debit and credit cards.

Interlease

Acquisition in 2016
UBB Interlease is a Bulgarian lease company part of the Belgian banking and insurance group KBC. The activities of Interlease are targeted towards increasing the competitiveness and improving the market positions of the Bulgarian enterprises both domestically and abroad. Interlease finances the acquisition of high-quality equipment, transportation vehicles, cars and office equipment. The company provides its customers with professional service after delivery of the asset, based on effective internet and mobile technologies.

Senzal

Acquisition in 2007
Senzal is a privately held brokerage service company.

Hipobroker

Acquisition in 2007
Hipobroker is a provider of financial services in Serbia & Montenegro and offers information useful for security portfolios.

Swiss Capital S.A.

Acquisition in 2007
Swiss Capital S.A. is an investment brokerage services in Romania. The company serves institutional clients and high net worth individuals.

Romstal Leasing IFN SA

Acquisition in 2007
Romstal Leasing is the largest independent leasing company in Romania. At the end of 2006, it held a 4.20% share of the Romanian leasing market and was ranked thirteenth. The bulk of its financing activity (43.30%) relates to car leasing, but it also leases delivery vans, lorries, machinery and equipment and real estate.

DZI Plc

Acquisition in 2007
DZI is an Insurance company in Bulgaria, offering a wide range of Life and Non-life Insurance products, as well as bankassurance.