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Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Current registrations 181division 64: 26,063
Starters, 12 months 10.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Employment (FTE) 1,34942 employers · latest accounts
Median age 35.6 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts

NACE 64910 · financial year 2025 · 134 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
49.7%
division 52.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€73,409
division €42,564 · Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€1.6m
division €328,915 · Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
24.1%
division 20.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
6.2%
division 6.0% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
5.1%
division 13.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.19
division 1.33 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
24.5%
financial year 2024, 139 filings · division 28.2% · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 41.5%45.8%46.0%46.6%41.4%49.7%
Median net result €55,525€76,476€102,298€93,451€47,566€73,409

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 162 of 181 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 117 · 72.2%
  • Brussels 23 · 14.2%
  • Wallonia 18 · 11.1%
  • Abroad 4 · 2.5%
fewer moremax 29

Largest employers

NACE 64910 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 BMW FINANCIAL SERVICES BELGIUM S.A. - N.V.Bornem 258 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 ING LEASE BELGIUMBrussels 141 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 KBC AutoleaseLeuven 138 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 BNP Paribas Lease GroupBrussels 128 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 ATHLON CAR LEASE BELGIUMMachelen (Brab.) 126 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 45 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 32
  • 112 Garages 7
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 6
  • 126 Furnishing and woodworking 2
  • 307 Insurance brokers and agencies 2
  • 310 Banks 2
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 2
  • 116 Chemical industry 1
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  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 207 White-collar workers in the chemical industry 1
  • 216 Notaries' employees 1
  • 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 64: Financial services

Related activities

7 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 64

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies3524161510111018981516
Jobs lost8819818161216125913101520

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 64

1,865 employers
Median
€81,200
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€62,300 to €104,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
11 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €77,800 €59,300 to €99,700 1,488
10 to 49 FTE €93,300 €75,500 to €119,600 293
50 to 249 FTE €98,300 €79,800 to €133,700 73

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 64
Number
224
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
32%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,606 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 5 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

209 of the 24,569 companies in NACE division 64 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (63), Netherlands (44) and Luxembourg (30). Together they employ 4,238 of the division's 30,677 FTE: 14%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €177.1m awarded 2,557 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies/ondersteuning voor personeels- en werkingskosten aan woonmaatschappijen voor de doorverhuringsactiviteit
  • Federal transfers 96.0m amount as published 15 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies aan het kapitaal van de Belgische Investeringsmaatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (BIO) (nieuwe basisallocatie)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €649,932 paid 1 recipient · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subvention au fonds d'investissement Start destinée à couvrir ses frais de fonctionnement
  • EU budget €544.9m attributed share 23 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Rents and purchases
  • EU research €23.2m EU contribution 32 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €73,409 is above Belgium's €16,539. Return on equity of 5.1% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 6.2% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 35.6 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 10.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Brussels holds 14.6% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 24.5% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 791 of the 1,349 FTE: 58.6%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 41.5% in financial year 2020 to 49.7% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €55,525 in financial year 2020 to €73,409 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 64910 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today.