Balancing entrepreneurship with control and risk management – that is what good corporate governance means to Fortis Intertrust. It implies organising our businesses and activities for growth and long-term sustainable success, while effectively keeping sight of and managing the risks that come with that growth.
Our Board has a crucial leadership role in guiding Fortis Intertrust to success through responsible and efficient decision-making in the face of dilemmas encountered during the course of its development. Good governance is also about the contribution of every employee at all levels of the Fortis Intertrust organisation. All employees in their daily work environment must aim to achieve an optimum balance between performance, risk and control. Corporate governance is a subject that has been at the core of a continual stream of
new laws, regulations and best-practice guidance in different countries, and at the level of international organisations and institutions.
Fortis Intertrust is part of Fortis, a Belgian-Dutch group to which the Belgian and the Dutch Codes of Corporate Governance apply. At Fortis and Fortis Intertrust as well, however, corporate governance means more than simply complying with a code. As a financial services institution, we believe that a strong culture of corporate governance and ethical behaviour and decision-making is fundamental to the way we do business. We therefore keep a very close eye on best practices and we constantly develop and improve our own governance framework in accordance with best practices. This Introductory Statement describes governance at Fortis Intertrust. We are confident that creating a clearly defined framework for corporate governance will help us to communicate better with all our stakeholders.

Bas Schreuders
CEO, Fortis Intertrust Group