{{Multiple issues| {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=June 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2025}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} '''Fernand Collin''' (Antwerp, 18 December 1897 – 11 December 1990), was a Belgian businessman. He was president of the Kredietbank from 1938 to 1973 and was also a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.
At the start of World War II, Fernand Collin, together with Alexandre Galopin (Société Générale de Belgique) and Max-Léo Gérard (Banque de Bruxelles) were given a mandate to manage the Belgian economy during the war. Paul-Henri Spaak told them in May 1940 ''Nous vous confions la Belgique'' (E: We trust you with Belgium).
He was CEO of the pudding producing company ''Imperial Products'', which merged in 1968 with ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Devos Lemmens|nl}}'' into ''Continental Foods'' (it was sold to Campbell Soup in 1985). In 1962, he published an article in the Yale Law Journal, where in a note on the ''Unit of Account'' he expanded on the idea of a European currency in order to ''revitalize the international money markets''.<ref>The Unit of Account: Enforceability under American Law of Maintenance-of-Value Provisions in International Bonds, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 7 (June 1962), pp. 1294–1315</ref>
==Awards== * 1971: Joost van den Vondelprijs
==See also== * Fernand Collin Prize for Law
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==Sources== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060523203319/http://fondationuniversitaire.be/nl/we_fernand.php Fernand Collin] * Vandeputte Robert, ''Fernand Collin en zijn tijd'', Tielt, Lannoo, 1985
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