The net international investment position has weakened to €339.4 billion or 54.9% of GDP. Financial transactions are broadly in balance. The rising price of gold is boosting the value of reserve ...

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Net financial wealth of Belgian households dipped at the end of the first quarter of 2025 Total financial assets fell by almost €5 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a decline due entirely to ...

Circulars and communications NBB_2022_34 Publication date 20 Dec 2022 - 16:00 Area of responsiblity Supervision of financial institutions Transversal and international aspects Sector Financial ...

Le patrimoine financier des ménages belges enregistre un léger rempli à la fin du premier trimestre de 2025 Le total des actifs financiers s’est replié de près de 5 milliards d’euros au premier ...

Communication NBB_2025_05 / Digitalisation des formulaires « qualifying holding » (QLF) et révision du mode de validation des formulaires "fit & proper" (FAP) et QLF ...

The ECB concluded its strategy review in 2021 with a plan to include owner-occupied housing (OOH) costs in its inflation measure in the future. This paper uses the Bundesbank’s online household panel ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, central bank losses have stoked public debate as they have consequences for state budgets and, thus, taxpayers. Indeed, over recent decades, major central banks have tended to distribute ...

This paper estimates how the impact of a natural disaster propagates through the production network. More precisely, we look at the excessive rainfall in the summer of 2021 that caused large areas to ...

De manière générale, la baisse est plus prononcée dans l’industrie manufacturière que dans les services. Les situations individuelles peuvent cependant être très différentes, car l’ampleur de la ...

Circulaire NBB_2021_12 / Les devoirs de vigilance à l’égard des rapatriements de fonds depuis l’étranger et la prise en compte des procédures de régularisation fiscale pour l’application de la loi ...