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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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<strong>Dexia</strong> / <strong>Annual</strong> Report <strong>2006</strong>

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