Crucial day for the bank BNB Paribas Fortis and bpost this Friday. First of all, BNP Paribas formalized the merger of the two banks in a press release this Friday morning. : “If the transaction is approved by the relevant supervisory authorities, bpost bank will be integrated into BNP Paribas Fortis on January 1, 2024. From this date, BNP Paribas Fortis customers will also be able to visit post offices, currently 657 in number, for all basic financial services.
In two years, the 308 current employees of bpost bank will therefore join the teams of BNP Paribas Fortis. “The bpost employees currently in charge of the bank’s back office and helpdesk will remain an integral part of the bpost group“, specify the banks.
In concrete terms, this also means that BNP Paribas Fortis customers will be able to be welcomed in the 657 post offices in Belgium, which will then serve nearly 1.5 million customers in total, according to the terms of the new commercial partnership between the two companies. Currently, bpost bank has 600,000 customers.
The bpost employees currently in charge of the bank’s back office and helpdesk will remain an integral part of the bpost group
For customers of bpost bank and BNP Paribas Fortis, nothing will change before January 1, 2024, although the former will add, in 2022 and 2023, a number of services to the existing offer, such as new assurance “non-life“, they note once more.
