Legal changes 1 October 2020, unless otherwise specified

The main changes:

• Under the Shareholder Rights Directive, the bank can upon request:
  
  • provide information on the general meetings of certain companies in which you have invested
    
  • provide confirmation of your positions carrying voting rights if you wish to participate at a general meeting
• You have two months to transfer your securities starting from the time the customer relationship is terminated.

View these and all other changes.

The main changes:

• KBC will now be able to execute orders for debt instrument on two platforms:
  • Bloomberg's Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF)
    
  • Euronext (Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris)
    
• Orders for hedging products will be supplemented by OTC commodity derivatives pricing.
• Securities financing transactions will be restricted to repo and reverse repo transactions.
  

View the updated version of KBC Bank NV's Best Execution Policy.

Your new KBC Brussels Debit Card will now be made available digitally in KBC Brussels Mobile immediately after applying for it. This means that you can make payments online before you actually receive your physical card. 

View the new regulations.

What to do if you don't agree with this change
You can cancel your KBC Brussels Debit Card at no charge.

If you end up becoming incapacitated for work, the contributions you had paid into your KBC Life Pension Plan – Social VSPSS before then are no longer deducted from the amount you receive from the solidarity fund.

View the new regulations.

KBC Local and e-Reporting are set to be gradually ended, as we will no longer able to guarantee their security in the future. Of course, you can continue to bank online using the KBC Brussels Business Dashboard.

Learn more.

• If you die before the release date, the funds in your KBC Brussels Tall Oaks Custody Account will be transferred immediately to the beneficiary and no longer to your surviving partner or heirs. 
• The beneficiary may only have free disposal of those funds on or after the release date specified by you. Until that time, the account will be blocked. See more details below:

Article 7 – Death of the stipulator(s)

After the death of one of the stipulator(s), the third-party beneficiary clause will remain in effect, but may no longer be amended or revoked. The funds on the Tall Oaks Custody Account will then fall to the beneficiary and be placed in his/her name. The bank will notify the beneficiary or his/her legal representative(s) thereof.

The beneficiary may only have free disposition of the funds on the Tall Oaks Custody Account once the release date has passed and once the beneficiary has accepted the third-party beneficiary clause. In addition, if the beneficiary is not yet a customer of the bank, he/she must first be identified as required by Article I.2 of the General Banking Terms & Conditions.

The funds on the Tall Oaks Custody Account may nevertheless be used to pay the inheritance tax owed by the beneficiary in respect of that account.

If the balance on the Tall Oaks Custody Account is zero (0) euros upon the stipulator's death, the third-party beneficiary clause is not executed owing to frustration. This Tall Oaks Custody Account is then included in the estate of the stipulator.

What to do if you don't agree to these changes
You can cancel your KBC Brussels product or service before the changes take effect, without having to pay a cancellation fee. If we don't hear from you before then, we will assume that you agree with the changes.

On 31 December 2020, the guaranteed rate of 1.25% ends for the deposit(s) you made into your 'Épargne-Plus-Hospitalisation' in 2001 and/or 2012. With effect on 1 January 2021, we guarantee a rate of 0.10% on the capital sum you accumulated and on any new deposits. The new rate of interest is guaranteed for eight years. 

On 31 December 2020, the guaranteed rate of 1.25% ends for the deposit(s) you made into your 'Plan Santé' in 2001 and/or 2012. With effect on 1 January 2021, we guarantee a rate of 0.10% on the capital sum you accumulated and on any new deposits. The new rate of interest is guaranteed for eight years.

KBC Brussels will offer the personal digital assistant 'Kate' in its KBC Brussels Mobile app. We have amended the Data Protection Statements to take account of the new service. The main changes are given on page 3 of the updated Data Protection Statements under Preliminary: the salient changes in this version of the data protection (formerly privacy) statement.

View the full Data Protection Statements.

A number of interest rate benchmarks like EONIA (Euro OverNight Index Average) are set to be discontinued as they don’t comply with the EU Benchmark Regulation (2016/1011). With effect on 1 January 2021, KBC Brussels will replace the EONIA benchmark rate with the €STR benchmark (€STR = EONIA - 0.085%).

See the European Central Bank’s website for their current interest rate benchmarks.