Companies

• Free online consultation of annual accounts
  This application enables you to consult the annual accounts or consolidated annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium, and to find the addresses and company numbers of the companies and associations whose accounts have been filed.
• Filing annual accounts
  You will find information here as to the filing of the annual accounts, such as the time-limits, the sanctions, the language of the annual accounts, the filing costs, the consolidated accounts ...
• Sofista
  Sofista is online software for drawing up and validating annual accounts formatted as a structured file.
• Statistics for sectors
  The company file compares the financial figures of the enterprise with those of the activity sector the enterprise belongs to. 
• Social balance sheet
  The social balance sheet holds specific information about the workforce: number of people employed, personnel movements, training ...
• Declarations via CSSR
  The Central Server for Statistical Reporting (CSSR) is a reporting channel that the National Bank offers for electronic statistical reporting.  
• Intrastat
  Via the monthly intrastat declaration companies provide information about their intercommunity (intra-EU) flows of goods.
• IDEP/GN8
  The National Bank provides free software to enable the firms required to supply statistics to complete their foreign trade declarations as efficiently as possible.
• Balance of payments
  The balance of payments statistics constitute an important economic indicator which are included in the balance of payments for the euro area.

Financial sector

• The securities settlement system
  The National Bank administers a settlement system for securities (formerly called Clearing), which ensures the secure handling of transactions in, predominantly, dematerialised securities (securities that only exist in the form of an entry on an account).  
• Central processing of commercial bills
  In 1997 the banking sector introduced the system for the central processing of commercial bills with the aim of obviating the need for the material transfer of commercial bills between credit institutions.
• Protection Fund for Deposits and Financial Instruments
  In the event of the failure of a credit institution or investment firm, its customers receive partial compensation from a government institution, the "Protection Fund for Deposits and Financial Instruments".
• RECOUR
  Recour is the current accounts application of the National Bank of Belgium. Recour is also the central settlement location of other payment and securities clearing systems.
• Issuance of dematerialised securities
• Dematerialisation of bearer securities
• TARGET
  TARGET is the European cross border payment system linking the national so called gross settlement systems of the 15 EU countries with the payment system of the European Central Bank.
• CEC
  The CEC (Centre for Exchange and Clearing) processes an average of 4 million retail payments a day.
• Bond Center
  For a fee, the Bond Centre provides a service which enables banks to present their customers’ securities and coupons for payment without first grouping them together by ISIN code or denomination.
• Exseco
  Exseco (Exchange of Securities and Coupons) enables financial institutions to exchange securities and coupons with one another and with the National Bank.

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