Keytrade Bank

Key details

• Parent: customers

Overview

Keytrade Bank is Belgian online bank + brokerage + Crédit Mutuel Arkéa French cooperative banking group parent fully owned + Belgium's largest online bank + brokerage by customers + ~350K+ Belgian + Luxembourg Keytrade Bank customers [1, be-cro].

History

1998 — VMS-Keytrade founded as Belgian online brokerage.

2002 — VMS-Keytrade renamed Keytrade Bank.

Apr 2005 — Crédit Mutuel Arkéa French cooperative banking group acquires Keytrade Bank.

2010 — Keytrade Bank mobile banking app launch.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Keytrade Bank (Belgian online bank + brokerage; Crédit Mutuel Arkéa parent fully owned).

Major shareholders: Crédit Mutuel Arkéa (French cooperative banking group; Crédit Mutuel federation member; Fortuneo French online bank + brokerage parent) fully owned.

Regulators: NBB Belgium + ECB + CSSF Luxembourg.

Technical integration

Keytrade Bank mobile app (iOS + Android; ~350K+ Belgian + Luxembourg Keytrade Bank customers) + keytradebank.be online + Keytrade Bank Visa + Mastercard cards; SEPA + SEPA Instant + EPC-QR + Bancontact (Belgian national card scheme + mobile P2P payment scheme) + Wero (post-EPI launch).

Implementations & partners

Crédit Mutuel Arkéa parent: [[fortuneo]] (Fortuneo French online bank + brokerage; Crédit Mutuel Arkéa subsidiary; ~1.1M+ customers).

Major Belgian banking + payments competitors: [[bnp-paribas-fortis]] (BNP Paribas Fortis; Belgian commercial bank; Belgium's largest commercial bank by assets + branches) + [[kbc]] (KBC Mobile; KBC Group; Belgium's #2 commercial bank by assets) + [[belfius]] (Belfius Bank; Belgian state-owned commercial bank; Belgium's #3 commercial bank by assets) + [[argenta]] (Argenta Bank; Belgian commercial bank) + [[ing-belgium]] (ING Belgium; ING Group Dutch parent Belgian subsidiary) + [[aion-bank]] (Aion Bank Belgian digital bank; UniCredit acquired Mar 2025) + [[bancontact-payconiq]] (Bancontact Payconiq Belgian national card scheme + mobile P2P + retail payment scheme).

Regulators: NBB Belgium + ECB + CSSF Luxembourg.

Status

Active, Belgian online bank + brokerage + Crédit Mutuel Arkéa French cooperative banking group parent fully owned + Belgium's largest online bank + brokerage by customers + ~350K+ Belgian + Luxembourg Keytrade Bank customers [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 Keytrade — official
• 2 Keytrade — Wikipedia
• be-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/BE-belgium.md

Source

Biography extracted from keytrade.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.