I would like to welcome you to the Belgian Financial Forum's website.

The profound changes in our financial environment send out urgent signals for us to update our knowledge and review our work methods.

The Financial Forum sets out to stimulate reflection on financial and economic issues, to act as a meeting place bringing together professionals, authorities, the academic and corporate worlds, as well as providing an instrument for disseminating knowledge and information in the financial and economic domains.

In this context, it organises lectures and conferences and issues publications dealing with present-day financial and economic questions.

The Financial Forum has a presence in the following regions: Antwerpen, Brabant wallon,  Brussels, Charleroi, Kempen, Limburg, Liège, Luxembourg belge, Mechelen, Mons-La Louvière, Namur, Oost-Vlaanderen, Verviers-Eupen, Vlaams-Brabant, Waasland, Wallonie picarde and West-Vlaanderen.

I hope that the wealth of subjects studied, the flexibility of a regional presence, as well as the chance to strike up or renew contacts at all levels will be reason enough for the Forum to have the pleasure of welcoming you to one of its events in the near future.

Jan Smets,

President of the Belgian Financial Forum's Steering Committee