KBC Group NV, together with its subsidiaries, provides banking, insurance, and asset management services primarily for retail, private banking, small and medium sized enterprises, and mid-cap clients in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. The company provides demand deposits, time deposits, and savings and current accounts; home and mortgage loans; home insurance; consumer finance and SME funding services, investment fund, and life and non-life insurance; and cash management, payments, trade finance, lease, money market, capital market products, corporate finance, factoring, and stockbroking services. It offers digital and mobile banking services, as well as engages in the credit institution, software, driving school/roadside assistance business. The company was formerly known as KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company NV and changed its name to KBC Group NV in March 2005. KBC Group NV was incorporated in 1935 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
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