At PwC Belgium, our commitment lies in advancing inclusive and easily accessible banking solutions. As part of the global PwC network spanning 152 countries, we strive to deliver excellence in assurance, advisory, and tax services through our team of over 328,000 professionals. We are dedicated to building trust in society and addressing critical challenges.
Our approach to fostering banking accessibility revolves around concepts such as digitalization, embedded finance and ecosystem development. By seamlessly integrating financial services into broader platforms, we eliminate barriers and provide effortless access to banking functionalities. Imagine conducting transactions, managing investments, and receiving personalized financial guidance within the applications and platforms you already use daily.
Creating comprehensive ecosystems is another key aspect of our vision. We envision banks transforming into all-encompassing hubs, offering a wide range of services beyond traditional banking activities.
At PwC Belgium, we're deeply invested in facilitating financial and digital inclusion for our clients' customers through our service offerings. We partner with organizations to ensure that essential financial services and digital tools are accessible to all, regardless of background. Through our tailored solutions and expertise, businesses can expand their reach and create opportunities for more individuals to participate in the digital economy. At PwC Belgium, driving inclusive growth through our service offerings is at the heart of what we do.
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With over 2,000 employees in Belgium and more than 270,000 partners and people in 143 countries worldwide, the KPMG network serves the needs of corporates, small and medium enterprises, public and financial sector, not-for-profits and – through KPMG firms' audit and assurance practices – the capital markets.
We bring deep sector expertise to our clients. In Belgium, the Financial Services sector team works shoulder-to-shoulder and seamlessly with our clients to deliver successful outcomes across asset management, banking and capital markets, insurance and fintech.
We offer personalized and multidisciplinary support in audit, accountancy, tax, legal, and a range of advisory services – from operational efficiency, cost management and sustainability to digital transformations, technology-enabled transformations, and deal and strategic advice. We also offer top-notch risk and regulatory services and provide solutions to help financial sector to become more digital, stay cyber-secure, better use their data, and explore the use cases for AI.
The KPMG network has also built a strong network of alliances with some of the world’s leading technology, data and service companies to better serve our clients.
As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.
Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organisation of over 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company serving clients in more than 120 countries, combining our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, security, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Febelfin Academy is the competence centre for the financial sector at large. We stand for financial trainings with a focus on job-specific skills as well as competence development.
We offer secure and effective comprehensive solutions for managing payments, including the distribution, handling, recycling and storage of cash and other valuables. Our customers belong to a diverse range of entities, including financial institutions, retailers, other commerce-related businesses, and the public sector. Loomis is Nr 1 in Europe and it's strongly developing its operation in Belgium aiming to transform the cash management business for Banks, Retailers and Administrations along the whole country. With both Loomis ATM Cash 24/7, Loomis ATM Outsourcing and SafePoint (for Retailers), Loomis is taking cash into the digital age. Outsourcing, innovation, and automation have become the key market drivers in a fast-changing ecosystem. Accordingly, Loomis highly contributes to create more value and performance. Loomis operates its business based on its three common core values: People, Service and Integrity.
Sopra Banking Software (SBS) is a global financial technology company that’s reimagining how banks and the financial services industry operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota.
Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments and consumer and asset finance. With 5,000 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leading Digital Banking Platform by Omdia's Universe.
SBS is a subsidiary of European digital consulting leader Sopra Steria (EPA: SOP), a 50,000-person company that generates annual revenue of approximately €5.1 billion. SBS is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Eubelius is Belgium's largest independent law firm, with offices in Brussels, Kortrijk and Antwerp. Our 25 partners, 18 (senior) counsels and more than 100 associates offer counselling and representation on Belgian and European law.
We have privileged working relationships with outstanding independent law firms in many foreign jurisdictions. Although we are an independent Belgian firm, a significant proportion of our work is cross-border (both inbound and outbound). We serve a very diverse client base, ranging from Fortune 500 multinationals to local entrepreneurs, a large number of companies with public law status, and numerous Belgian companies which are part of large international groups. We represent all Belgian language communities and handle matters in English, Dutch, French and German.
The Banking & Finance team of Monard Law joined by Buyle is particularly known for its expertise in the fields of banking litigation, regulatory advice (including in the field of fintech and crypto) and transactions. The Banking & Finance department of the firm has one of the largest (totaling 20 practitioners including 6 partners) and strongest in Belgium.
Monard Law joined by Buyle has a special focus on complex financial litigation. This includes disputes related to payment services, fraud, derivatives, private placements, MIFID-related disputes and white collar crime. We assist domestic and foreign banks, financial institutions and fintech’s with the obtaining of the licences required to exercise their activities (banking license, PSD2 license, investment firm license, consumer lending authorization, financial services and insurance broker licence, etc.).
In the area of regulatory advice, we assist many banks and investment firms with the drafting of loan agreements, MiFID documentation, KIID, asset management agreements, etc. Our experience in prudential supervision in the banking field includes governance, capital and solvability requirements, bail-in requirements, etc. The department has further gained a strong foothold in the Belgian financing landscape as a trusted advisor for both banks and corporates, with experience on the full range of finance and capital markets transactions.
The Monard Law joined by Buyle Banking & Finance team has a niche service offering in the area of real estate and infrastructure finance. The project finance team advises clients on real estate investment, construction and development finance, including financing of PPPs.
Monizze is a Belgian FinTech that maximizes people’s purchasing power through smart digital solutions. In these times of rising inflation, challenging global markets and people’s needs for more flexibility, companies of all sizes are rethinking their HR and compensation policies. That’s where Monizze comes in. We re-package your regular extra-legal advantages into intelligent solutions: no administrative hassle, tons of value, easily accessible and manageable.
Over the past decade, Monizze has built her expert reputation by successfully issuing digital extra-legal benefits, grouped on a single payment card and interface, enabling a seamless payment experience through the integration with numerous payment platforms. In the meantime, the company has been evolving and expanding: Recently, Monizze stepped into the HRtech area with an AI-driven integrated platform. The company also further expanded into the Fintech domain by leveraging its existing ecosystem and payment infrastructure to create new purchasing power solutions.
From its origins as a pharmacist to its present calling as a chocolatier, Neuhaus has always put caring for others and ensuring their wellbeing first. The family opened its first Neuhaus boutique in 1857 in the famous Galerie de la Reine in Brussels. To the delight of his customers, Jean Neuhaus cased his medicines in a thin layer of chocolate. In 1912, his grandson went one step further transforming this concept into the Belgian praline as we know it today, replacing the medicine in the chocolate casing with a delicious filling.
Neuhaus, the inventor of the Belgian praline, continues to pursue its goal of demonstrating its leadership qualities in the chocolate market by encouraging innovation and creating exciting new products with natural ingredients.
Our pralines and truffles have always been crafted with consideration and respect in Belgium and we are firmly committed to upholding this tradition.