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The private art collection of KBC bank is situated in the Rockox House in Antwerp. The group's overall ambition is to be the reference in bank-insurance in all its core markets. Its shares are traded on the Euronext exchange in Brussels.
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The free float was chiefly held by a large variety of international institutional investors as of mid 2018. In the core shareholders, KBC Ancora controls 19%, MRBB (part of the Flemish farmers' association) controls around 12%, CERA (the largest cooperative in Flanders) 3% and a group of industrialist families controls another 8%. The group is controlled by a syndicate of core shareholders, and has a free float of approximately 60%. It is the 15th largest bank in Europe by market capitalisation and a major financial player in Central and Eastern Europe, employing some 41,000 staff (of which more than half in Central and Eastern Europe) and serving 12 million customers worldwide (some 7 to 8 million in Central and Eastern Europe). The parent company, KBC Group N.V., is one of the major companies and the second largest bancassurer in Belgium. KBC is an acronym for Kredietbank ABB Insurance CERA Bank (CEntrale RAiffeisenkas).
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Besides retail banking, insurance and asset management activities (in collaboration with daughter companies KBC Insurance NV and KBC Asset Management NV), KBC is active in, among other things, European debt capital markets, domestic cash equity markets and in the field of corporate banking, private banking, leasing, factoring, reinsurance, private equity and project and trade finance in Belgium, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (mainly in Europe). is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Ireland, Central Europe and South-East Asia.