en Banque de Luxembourg

Banque de Luxembourg
	Main headquarters in Luxembourg City
Company type	Private company
Industry	Banking; Financial services
Founded	1920; 104 years ago
Headquarters	Boulevard Royal, Luxembourg
Key people	Philippe Vidal, Chairman; Pierre Ahlborn, CEO
Products	Private Banking; Asset Management; Business banking;
Net income	€63 mln (2017)
Total assets	€13,085.6 mln (2017)
Number of employees	900
Subsidiaries	Banque de Luxembourg Investments (BLI); Compagnie Financière de Gestion (CFG); Conventum Asset Management
Website	www.banquedeluxembourg.com

49°36′48″N 6°07′33″E / 49.6132°N 6.1257°E / 49.6132; 6.1257

Banque de Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [bɑ̃k də lyksɑ̃buʁ], lit. 'Bank of Luxembourg') is a financial institution in Luxembourg, which primarily focuses on wealth management and high-net-worth individuals. It is owned by the French banking group Crédit Mutuel, through the group's subsidiary Crédit Industriel et Commercial.

History

Founded in 1920, the history of Banque de Luxembourg is closely tied in with the rise of the financial center of Luxembourg.

1920: Banque d'Alsace et de Lorraine, later Crédit Industriel d'Alsace et de Lorraine (CIAL), opens its first branch in Luxembourg.
1937: Banque Mathieu Frères, the forerunner of Banque de Luxembourg, is founded.
1969: CIAL becomes a major shareholder in Banque Mathieu Frères.
1977: Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. becomes a shareholder in Banque Mathieu Frères, which changes its name to Banque de Luxembourg.
1991: Banque de Luxembourg takes over the Luxembourg activities of CIAL.
1994: The bank opens its new head office at 14 Boulevard Royal, Luxembourg.
1999: Banque de Luxembourg launches Fund-Market S.A., the independent fund adviser. Fund-Market's products and services were integrated into the Bank's offer in 2010.
2002: Following restructuring, Deutsche Bank sells its 28.95% holding in Banque de Luxembourg to CIC Group, which becomes a shareholder via the Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (CIC Group holding company).
2005: Banque de Luxembourg Fund Research & Asset Management (BL FR&AM) brings together the bank's investment analytical and management expertise.
2010: Banque de Luxembourg opens a branch in Belgium to meet the needs of clients from the Belgian province of Luxembourg.

Shareholder structure

Banque de Luxembourg is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel via the Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC). The CIC is 93%-owned by Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM), the holding company of the bancassurance group Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe-CIC. A non-listed company, the Crédit Mutuel Centre Est Europe-CIC group combines 11 regional federations of Crédit Mutuel with those of CIC. The group is owned by around 5 million shareholding members, and has around 69,500 employees and 23.8 million customers. The group's equity capital is EUR 39.6 billion and it has a tier-one solvency ratio of 15%. The rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's assign a rating of Aa3 and A+ respectively to the BFCM group.

Branches

Luxembourg

Designed by Bernardo Fort-Brescia, from the architectural practice Arquitectonica in Miami, the Bank's head office and recently inaugurated extension houses the Bank's Luxembourg-based sales teams. The support and back office teams are located at the administrative headquarters in Howald.