Belgian Bank (Chinese: T: 華比銀行, S: 华比銀行, P:Huábǐ Yínháng, "China-Belgium Bank") is a wholly owned subsidiary of ICBC (Asia). "Belgian Bank" was also the trading name of its founding predecessor, the Generale Belgian Bank. It is a licensed bank incorporated in Hong Kong. On October 10, 2005, all branches of Belgian Bank were rebranded as "ICBC (Asia)".
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“This fat pistache of Belgian grapes exceeds
The total gala of auburn aureoles.
Cochon! Master, the grapes are here and now.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)