Belgium

Belgium is an EU Member State whose official export credit agency is Credendo Export Credit Agency, with FATF membership, EU sanctions implementation, and the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises as the central company database. This datasheet records the institutional pointers.

Belgium export credit agency and official support

Credendo Export Credit Agency is the official Belgian export credit agency. Credendo materials state that the agency was established in 1939 as ONDD, is backed by the state, and provides medium term and long term trade credit insurance cover to promote international trade relations. Belgian FPS Finance materials state that Delcredere Ducroire enjoys the Belgian state guarantee, that the commercial brand is Credendo Export Credit Agency, and that private Credendo subsidiaries writing shorter term risks do not enjoy the Belgian State guarantee. Those private subsidiaries are therefore outside the state guarantee perimeter even when they share branding.

Credendo is listed in the Berne Union directory. The official Credendo and FPS Finance pages cited in the sources carry the mandate and product boundaries.

FATF posture for Belgium

Belgium is a FATF member. Membership denotes participation in AML and counter-terrorist financing standard setting; mutual evaluation and follow-up outcomes are published by FATF separately. Belgium does not appear on the FATF increased monitoring or call for action lists as reproduced in HM Treasury's June 2026 Money Laundering Advisory Notice.

Sanctions posture for Belgium

Belgium applies EU CFSP restrictive measures. The Commission sanctions overview and EU Sanctions Map are the public institutional references for regimes and listings. Official Journal publication remains authoritative.

For sanctions screening on Belgian exposures under EU measures, institutional sources are those EU channels plus Belgian national competent authorities referenced by the Commission. Designation inventories are not reproduced here.

Company and beneficial ownership registers in Belgium

EU e-Justice materials describe the Business Hub Database (Banque-Carrefour des Entreprises / Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen) managed by the Federal Department of the Economy. Public data concerning businesses can be consulted free of charge via the online Public Search function. FPS Economy describes the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises as the database containing basic data on companies and business units, assigning a unique identification number and disseminating data to competent authorities.

FPS Finance UBO register materials describe a statutory duty since 2018 for covered entities to register ultimate beneficial owners within 30 days of incorporation and to confirm the information annually, as part of transparency and AML objectives. Detailed third party public consultation rights beyond entity self registration are not stated on the FPS Finance UBO service page cited here and are therefore recorded as an open item. Beneficial ownership and UBO access rests on current FPS Finance notices rather than on public-search assumptions. Country risk for Credendo underwriting is a separate institutional input.

Summary

Belgium participates in Arrangement disciplines through the European Union Participant for medium and long term officially supported export credits. Credendo Export Credit Agency cover for state account is distinguished in credit files from Credendo private subsidiary policies that lack the Belgian State guarantee. Medium and long term trade credit insurance for capital goods and industrial projects is the core public mandate described by FPS Finance and Credendo. Premium, covered risks and claims conditions sit in the Credendo policy wording rather than in this country summary. Berne Union membership confirms the agency's place in the official export credit insurance community.