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Supporting your ambitions for growth

Supporting your ambitions for growth

We focus on the provision of enabling products that can help you achieve your ambitions for growth.
 

With over 29 years of experience in factoring and corporate lending, we’ve developed unique expertise in helping clients find solutions that work in line with their overall business strategies.

 

We provide savings solutions that can help clients plan for the future and work towards personal savings goals.

 

As an ethical, relevant and agile bank, we are commended for delivering financial solutions with a human touch. In today’s digital banking age, a personalised service could be the missing link between you and success.

 

We measure our own success, on the success we support you to achieve.

 

 

A family owned business

Izola Bank is wholly owned by the Van Marcke Group, a family owned company which is fast approaching its centennial of operations. Though the bulk of its business is concentrated in Belgium, the Group operate over 140 stores in France, the USA, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

Van Marcke Group is the largest plumbing and heating wholesaler in Belgium and a manufacturer and retailer of sanitary ware, laboratory furniture and related products. They are also involved in packaging and transportation.

Van Marcke is a brand dedicated to providing a better quality of life through environmentally friendly and sustainable products. The Group’s new €75 million distribution centre in Kortrijk, Belgium is completely carbon neutral.

When the Van Marcke Group established a banking arm to initially serve its own commercial needs, it chose Malta as its location. The island offers a robust regulatory framework in Europe, backed by an excellent communications and IT infrastructure and a professional workforce.

29 Years of Success

Izola Bank gained its banking licence in 1994 and has been heavily involved in Van Marcke Group’s treasury operations, particularly in the areas of cash and liquidity management, as well as lending and factoring. As a natural evolution to this, the Bank also started to offer the Group’s clients niche products with exclusive benefits.

Izola Bank also provides tailor-made financing solutions for SMEs and large companies in Malta and Belgium who are specifically looking for growth or to finance a particular project. This includes Izola Factor, commercial credit facilities, comprising of term-loans and overdrafts and tailor-made structures aimed at financing specific underlying needs of the business.

The Bank has also joined forces with two leading pan-European deposit platforms to offer personal deposits in a number of European countries, providing the Bank with a more diverse and liquid source of funding.

With over 29 years of successful operation, Izola Bank continuously invests in new technology to support the Bank’s evolving product lines and offer best in practice customer care. The Bank also adopts the necessary measures to ensure strong corporate governance and compliance with the latest EU legislation.

 

What are you looking for?

In today’s business world, the pressure on companies to grow is persistent and unwavering.


To achieve this growth, a company must stay relevant, innovative and competitive. Whether it’s from competing in the right markets, with the right services or products, or by making acquisitions that provide scale and increase market presence - growth is a key function of a business’ progressive lifecycle and the owner’s desire for equity value creation.
 

As an online bank with a human touch, our clients commend us for a truly personalised service. This is because we adopt a partnership style relationship with our clients. We listen, we understand key business objectives and we offer enabling digital technologies and services to help them realise their growth potential. We are constantly on the lookout for new opportunities and innovations that can enhance our clients’ growth and our own.
 

Our success is inherently based on the success we help our clients to accomplish.

 

Better Together

When people find themselves in a crisis, arising from situations like benefit delays, low income, homelessness, sickness, mental health or housing issues caused in part by rising rents, it can take some time for Care Professionals in Malta to find a long-term solution to help them.
 

Foodbank Lifeline Foundation helps these people in the short term by providing non-perishable food packs that can sustain an individual, couple or family for a period of one week, until a longer term solution can be found. 

From feeding just over 30 families during the summer of 2015, as of 2023 the Foodbank is feeding hundreds of families every single week, amounting to thousands of people every year, with operational costs running well into the tens of thousands every month.

Izola Bank shares Foodbank Lifeline's belief - that no child or adult should ever experience the indignity of hunger. This is why in 2019,  Izola Bank formalised their support of the Foodbank by becoming a joint main sponsor of the Foodbank along with The Alfred Mizzi Foundation. An agreement which is still going strong today. 

Aside from ongoing monetary donations, the Bank has also sponsored the development and management of all Foodbank Lifeline’s digital touch points, the production of ongoing operational material and the sponsorship of various fund-raising initiatives. Izola Bank is also the main sponsor of the annual Reverse Advent Calendar Campaign.

Izola Bank is proud to assist Foodbank Lifeline in its efforts to support people in desperate need.