[2] The Société Générale de Belgique took advantage of the railway project to open the Banque Sino Belge in 1902.

Jadot did not agree with the ambition of King Leopold II of Belgium to gain territory, which was anyway not practical due to the increase in Chinese nationalism after the suppression of the rebellion.

[4] On his return to Belgium in 1906 Jadot was appointed director in charge of industry development at the Société Générale de Belgique.

[5] The BCK was founded on 31 October 1906 by the Comité Spécial du Katanga, the Congo Free State and the Société Générale de Belgique to build a rail link from Bukama in Katanga to Port Franqui on the Kasai River, from where mining products could be shipped down to Léopoldville.

Under him the bank entered into new fields of financing, including electricity generation, pharmaceuticals and non-ferrous metals refining.