BNP Paribas Fortis

BNP Paribas Fortis is Belgium's largest bank by total assets, headquartered on the Warandeberg in central Brussels near the Royal Palace. As part of the BNP Paribas group, the bank serves millions of Belgian retail, corporate, and institutional clients. The in-house legal department handles complex cross-border financing, structured products, Belgian banking regulation compliance, MiFID II implementation, EMIR derivatives clearing obligations, and competition law matters. The legal team regularly interfaces with the NBB, FSMA, and the European Central Bank (ECB) in the context of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM).