Crédit Communal de Belgique

'Municipal Credit of Belgium') was a Belgian financial institution, established in 1860 and eventually merged with Crédit Local de France in 1996 to form Dexia.

[2]: 13  The Crédit Communal's founding act was made by lawmaker Auguste Orts and Jacques Gillon, the mayor of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, on 24 November 1860, and endorsed by royal decree on 8 December 1860.

The initial board of directors was composed of Bischoffsheim, de Brouckère, Gillon, Orts, and Krekelinger (a government official), the same five individuals who had drafted the bank's statute.

That building was eventually demolished and replaced in the 1970s by a complex designed by prominent architect Marcel Lambrichs [fr], presenting a neoclassical stone-faced front towards the National Bank and modern curtain-wall façades on the other sides.

[2]: 13  In 1983, following an infringement case lost by Belgium before the European Court of Justice, the Crédit Communal was brought into the scope of prudential supervision by the Belgian Banking Commission.

[2]: 13 By the mid-1990s the Crédit Communal relied on nearly a thousand branches in Belgium managed by 1,230 local agents (French: mandataires) which were either individuals or corporate entities, employing a total 1,970 staff.