Communication NBB_2024_10 to candidate shareholders and assigning shareholders

27 June 2024 10:00

Communication NBB_2024_10 to persons intending to acquire, increase, reduce or transfer a qualifying holding in the capital of a financial institution and to persons owning a qualifying holdingPDF

Annexes:

Joint guidelines of the ESAs (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) on the prudential assessment of acquisitions and increases of qualifying holdings in financial sector entities, published on 5 May 2017PDF
ECB SSM Guide on qualifying holding procedures (May 2023)PDF

Forms:

Forms for credit institutions, financial holding companies and mixed financial holding companies belonging to a Belgian banking group:

	IT platform where to find the digitised form	For information, pdf version of the form (NB: only the digitised version will be accepted from 01/10/2024)
Form QLF / Statement for the purpose of prudential assessment of acquisitions or increases of qualifying holdings in the capital of a credit institution [1] · Belgian specificities	IMAS	*A copy can be downloaded from the IMAS website*
Form B / “Fit & proper” form for senior managers of a proposed qualifying shareholder that is a legal entity	OneGate	PDF
Form C / Statement of a disposal or reduction of a qualifying holding in the capital of a financial institution	OneGate	PDF
Form D / Statement for information purposes of an acquisition or disposal of a holding in a financial institution that crosses the threshold of 5% of the voting rights or capital	OneGate	PDF
Form E / Statement of “new information”	OneGate	PDF

Forms for financial institutions other than banks (stockbroking firms, payment institutions, electronic money institutions, custodian banks, central securities depositories, institutions providing support to central securities depositories or central counterparties, , insurance and reinsurance companies, investment holding companies insurance holding companies, mixed financial holding companies belonging to an investment or insurance group)

	IT platform where to find the digitised form	For information, pdf version of the form (NB: only the digitised version will be accepted from 01/10/2024)
Form A / Statement for the purpose of prudential assessment of acquisitions or increases of qualifying holdings in the capital of a non-bank financial institution	OneGate	PDF
Form B / “Fit and proper” form for senior managers of a proposed qualifying shareholder that is a legal entity	OneGate	PDF
Form C / Statement of a disposal or reduction of a qualifying holding in the capital of a financial institution	OneGate	PDF
Form D / Statement for information purposes of an acquisition or disposal of a holding in a financial institution that crosses the threshold of 5% of the voting rights or capital	OneGate	PDF
Form E / Statement of “new information”	OneGate	PDF

NB: the above forms will be in force from 1 October 2024 in a digitised format (except for the ECB's QLF form, which has already been in force since 2019). Until 30 September 2024, the forms annexed to Communication_NBB_2017_22 will continue to apply, as will the email address [email protected]. See: web page Communication NBB_2017_22

Privacy statements:

ECB Privacy Statement: ECB Privacy Statement
NBB Privacy Statement

_{[1] The IMAS forms apply in all cases except for financial companies and mixed financial companies of less significant credit institutions, for which Form A OneGate applies.}