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RBF numérique

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une liste d'articles de la revue bancaire et financière.

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Investing with Purpose: The Why, What, and How of Impact Investing

In the Autumn of 2024, Impact Finance Belgium invited the Financial Forum to co-host a conference on Impact Investing. By the time it took place, the world had already changed. On June 13th, nearly 250 participants gathered at the National Bank of Belgium to consider a pressing question: Does investing with positive impact still matter in today’s volatile climate? The event brought together leading voices from Belgium and Europe’s financial ecosystem—from institutional investors to pioneering impact fund managers.

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Investing with Positive Impact: Still Relevant in a Shifting World?

In an era of geopolitical turbulence and the erosion of long-standing institutions, one question looms large: Is investing for positive impact — for people and planet — still relevant today? The answer is not only “yes,” but “more than ever.” Despite shifting political winds, policy backlashes, and market volatility, the case for embedding impact alongside risk and return has never been stronger.

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Investing for a Better Tomorrow: Presentation of different Strategies to Create Positive Impact in Practice

Every euro we invest shapes the future. It can reinforce systems that drive inequality and environmental breakdown — or it can fuel solutions that make societies more just, resilient, and sustainable. Traditionally, investment decisions have balanced risk and return. But in a world marked by climate urgency, rising inequality, and shifting global dynamics, there is a third dimension we can no longer ignore: impact.

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Different Shades of Green: how different investment strategies add impact to the risk-return perspective

Insights from the BFF Panel 2025 based on multiple real-world cases in the social and environmental sector, illustrating the different strategies for positive impact.

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The Journey Towards Investing with Positive Impact

At the BFF Conference on June 13th, 2025, the session “The journey Towards Investing with positive impact’ brought together three experts representing different parts of the financial ecosystem. Moderated by Hugues Pirotte, professor at the Solvay Impact Institute (ULB), the panel explored how institutional investors, private banks, and universal banks are shaping the future of sustainable finance, in the context of a changing narrative, and what barriers remain.

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Bonds as Catalysts : Can They Expand the Horizon of Sustainable and Impact Investment?

In July 2025, the sustainable debt market reached USD 6 trillion of cumulative issuance and this, almost exactly 18 years after a first ever EUR 600 million green bond was issued in July 2007 by the European Investment Bank.

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Closing the Gap: How to Get There – IFB’s Ambition

My personal journey into impact financing began 15 years ago, sparked by a powerful idea: social entrepreneurship. What drew me in was not just the concept, but the mindset — the refusal to accept the status quo. Social entrepreneurs are, in many ways, like the indignados: they see injustice, failure, or neglect in society — and instead of complaining, they rise up and act. They are innovators, changemakers, and above all, doers.

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Financial Stability Report 2025

This article summarises the main messages delivered by Mr Tom Dechaene, Executive Director of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB), on 4 June 2025 during a webinar organised on the occasion of the publication of the Financial Stability Report (FSR).

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Financial Stability Report de la Banque nationale : quelques éléments de discussion

Cet article reprend les principaux points abordés dans la deuxième partie du webinar organisé par la Banque nationale le 04 juin dernier à l’occasion de la publication de son Financial Stability report.

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The 2025 Financial and Market Infrastructures and Payment Services Report

The National Bank of Belgium has released the 2025 edition of its Financial Market Infrastructures and Payment Services Report (FMI Report), continuing a tradition that began in 2017. This annual publication provides a detailed overview of the Bank’s oversight and prudential supervision activities concerning financial market infrastructures, custodians, payment service providers, and critical service providers operating in Belgium.

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FSMA-studies over Belgische retailbeleggers

Dit artikel bundelt de voornaamste resultaten van 2 studies die de Autoriteit voor Financiële Diensten en Markten (FSMA) recent publiceerde over de Belgische retailbelegger. De FSMA publiceert driemaandelijks het Retail Investor Dashboard, met kerncijfers over de aandelen-, ETF- en obligatiehandel door Belgische retailbeleggers bij entiteiten onder toezicht van de FSMA

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Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur la monnaie et sur la politique monétaire (sans jamais oser le demander)

La principale mission des banques centrales est de conduire la politique monétaire. Dans cet article, nous faisons la lumière sur la manière dont elles s’y prennent et sur le rôle précis que la monnaie joue à cet égard.

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