Keytrade Bank
Keytrade Bank is a Belgium financial services company based in Brussels with a subsidiary in Luxembourg. The company provides banking services and is a brokerage firm providing trading in a number of financial instruments.
History
VMS-Keytrade, Belgium's first online investment site, was found in 1998. In 2002, VMS-Keytrade became Keytrade Bank and acquired its banking status by taking over RealBank.Between 2005 and 2016, Keytrade Bank was part of the Crelan Group, which until 2015 was 50% owned by the Crédit Agricole Group, one of Europe's largest groups.
Since June 2016, Keytrade Bank has been part of the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa banking group.
Products
Keytrade Bank offers all banking and trading services online.Banking
Keytrade Bank offers usual banking services with a current account, savings account, term account and also provides debit and credit cards.- Current account: yielding 5 cents for each operation executed, includes Bancontact / Mister Cash / Maestro cards for free and VISA and American Express credit cards.
- Savings account: account with an interest rate of 0.05% a year + 0.20% fidelity premium.
- Term account: period of the term between 1 week and 1 year and with the possibility to break up the term or to extend the time.
Trading
As a brokerage firm, Keytrade Bank offers access to several markets: Euronext Brussels, Paris and London Stock Exchange, Frankfurt, Milan, Switzerland, Madrid, Amsterdam, the U.S. and Canada.Keytrade Bank presents a broad range of products for private investors, including stocks, options, warrants, turbos, mutual funds, trackers, bonds, structured products.
Keytrade Bank also offers Keytrade Pro, a professional day-trading and trend trading platform for new products, which is used to be accessible only to professional investors. This platform allows the investor to invest in:
- The Forex
- The Futures market with more than 400 available contracts in 15 markets
- CFDs which allow investors to take position on more than 3500 underlying stocks on the 22 largest global markets with a leverage effect from 1 to 10.
Marketing
Keytrade Bank provides the numbers used in the daily financial magazine Cotes et Cours, which is broadcast by the RTBF. This partnership allows Keytrade Bank to run a short spot advertising just before and after the magazine.On 29 September 2014, KeytradeBank Belgium introduced a new brand identity: a new logo, website and advertising campaign were announced.