Annual report 2006 - Dexia.com
Annual report 2006 - Dexia.com
Annual report 2006 - Dexia.com
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GROUP PRESENTATION<br />
HISTORY OF THE GROUP<br />
MANAGEMENT REPORT<br />
COMPTES CONSOLIDÉS<br />
COMPTES SOCIAUX<br />
1860 Creation of Crédit Communal de Belgique.<br />
1987 Creation of Crédit local de France.<br />
1991 First listing of Crédit local de France on the Paris<br />
Stock Exchange.<br />
Crédit Communal de Belgique be<strong>com</strong>es majority<br />
shareholder of Banque Internationale à Luxembourg<br />
(BIL), the oldest established bank in Luxembourg<br />
(1856).<br />
1996 Creation of <strong>Dexia</strong>, through a business alliance<br />
between Crédit Communal de Belgique and Crédit<br />
local de France. The two partners begin operating<br />
as a Group under a structure organized around<br />
two holding <strong>com</strong>panies; <strong>Dexia</strong> Belgium, listed on<br />
the Brussels Stock Exchange (BEL20-index), and<br />
<strong>Dexia</strong> France listed on the Paris Stock Exchange<br />
(CAC 40-index).<br />
1997 Acquisition of a 40% stake in Crediop, a leading<br />
player in the Italian local public finance market.<br />
1999 April: buyout of BIL’s minority shareholders.<br />
June: <strong>Dexia</strong> be<strong>com</strong>es majority shareholder of<br />
Crediop (60%).<br />
June: acquisition in Belgium of Elvia Assurances,<br />
renamed <strong>Dexia</strong> Insurance.<br />
November: <strong>Dexia</strong> be<strong>com</strong>es shareholder of Otzar<br />
Hashilton Hamekomi (Israel).<br />
December: creation of a single holding <strong>com</strong>pany,<br />
<strong>Dexia</strong> SA, by means of a public offer by <strong>Dexia</strong> Belgium<br />
on <strong>Dexia</strong> France shares. <strong>Dexia</strong> is quoted in<br />
Brussels, Paris and Luxembourg. A unified management<br />
structure is established for the entire Group.<br />
2000 <strong>Dexia</strong> acquires FSA, a leading <strong>com</strong>pany in credit<br />
enhancement for municipal bond issuers in the US,<br />
and Bank Labouchere in the Netherlands.<br />
2001 July: <strong>Dexia</strong> acquires Artesia Banking Corporation<br />
in Belgium through a capital increase reserved to<br />
Arcofin, Artesia BC’s shareholder.<br />
July: <strong>Dexia</strong> acquires Kempen & Co through a public<br />
tender bid.<br />
December: increase of the equity interest in <strong>Dexia</strong><br />
Crediop from 60% to 70%.<br />
2002 January: <strong>Dexia</strong>m and Cordius Asset Management,<br />
Artesia BC’s subsidiary, merge to form <strong>Dexia</strong> Asset<br />
Management.<br />
April: <strong>Dexia</strong> Bank, Artesia Banking Corporation,<br />
BACOB and Artesia Services merge under the name<br />
<strong>Dexia</strong> Bank Belgium.<br />
May: increase of the equity interest in DVV Insurance,<br />
from 82% to 99%.<br />
2003 July: <strong>Dexia</strong> sells its monitory stake in Landbouwkrediet<br />
NV (Crédit agricole de Belgique).<br />
September: <strong>Dexia</strong> takes over the stake of the<br />
minority shareholders in its German subsidiary <strong>Dexia</strong><br />
HypothekenBank Berlin (now <strong>Dexia</strong> Kommunalbank<br />
Deutschland), active in local public finance.<br />
2004 November: <strong>Dexia</strong> sells its shares in Kempen & Co.<br />
November: acquisition of FMS Hoche, a specialist<br />
fund-administration <strong>com</strong>pany based in France.<br />
2005 June: <strong>Dexia</strong> and Royal Bank of Canada announce<br />
the <strong>com</strong>bination of their institutional investor services<br />
business in an equally-owned joint venture<br />
named RBC <strong>Dexia</strong> Investor Services (effective since<br />
January 1, <strong>2006</strong>).<br />
June: DVV Insurance and <strong>Dexia</strong> Insurance merge<br />
to form a new insurance <strong>com</strong>pany named <strong>Dexia</strong><br />
Insurance Belgium.<br />
October: <strong>Dexia</strong> sells its subsidiary Eural SA.<br />
December: <strong>Dexia</strong> has been granted a banking<br />
license in Canada and in Mexico.<br />
<strong>2006</strong> May: <strong>Dexia</strong> acquires a controlling interest (75%) in<br />
DenizBank, the sixth largest privately-owned bank<br />
in Turkey.<br />
September: <strong>Dexia</strong> announces the successful <strong>com</strong>pletion<br />
of a EUR 1.2 billion capital increase through<br />
an accelerated book build offering, with a view to<br />
financing part of the acquisition of DenizBank.<br />
October: <strong>Dexia</strong> opens <strong>Dexia</strong> Public Finance (Switzerland),<br />
a “foreign bank representation in Switzerland”<br />
specializing in public finance.<br />
November: <strong>Dexia</strong> has been granted a banking<br />
license in Japan.<br />
December: <strong>Dexia</strong> sells its subsidiary Banque Artesia<br />
Nederland.<br />
December: Following a successful mandatory tender<br />
offer, the shareholding of <strong>Dexia</strong> in DenizBank<br />
stands at 99.74%.<br />
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