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What we observe on the ground, mission after mission. Reflections on financial management, modeling, valuation and restructuring, originally published on LinkedIn.

10 August 2026

Melco Finance

External growth

External growth — buying time instead of building it

The slowest way to grow is often the one that feels safest : building everything yourself. Organic growth is the default setting of most SMEs hire, invest, win clients one by one...

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6 August 2026

Yves De Smedt

Failure to pay

Nobody defaults on cheap debt. They default on cheap debt at maturity.

The most expensive capital on a balance sheet is almost always the one that looked cheapest the day it was signed. For a decade, debt was practically free, and an entire...

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30 July 2026

Yves De Smedt

WealthTax

The debate on wealth taxation deserves better than a "rich versus the rest" framing.

Fabien Pinckaers' testimony points to a genuine technical issue, regardless of any partisan position. Taxing the unrealized value of a shareholding raises three difficulties...

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7 July 2026

Melco Finance

Treasury

Multi-banking without consolidation means knowing every balance no position

Growth consumes cash faster than losses do. That is the paradox behind most treasury crises in perfectly healthy companies. Every new client, every additional stock line, every...

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26 June 2026

Melco Finance

Restructuring

A company can be insolvent. Its business can be perfectly viable.

Most directors hear "transfer under judicial authority" and read it as a death sentence. It is closer to the opposite: the legal instrument designed to let a viable business...

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23 June 2026

Melco Finance

Insolvency

The fastest way to kill a viable company is

To assume no one will fund it once the procedure starts. It is the single most common reflex we meet around a distressed boardroom table. The directors look at their liquidity...

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10 June 2026

Yves De Smedt

Governance

Foresight without execution is just a forecast.

I spend my working life inside distressed situations — companies where the warning signs were visible long before the rupture. And the pattern almost never changes. The...

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4 June 2026

Yves De Smedt

Restructuring

The most powerful tool in Belgian restructuring is also the most ignored.

In 2025, 11,665 companies were declared bankrupt in Belgium, a 5.4% increase on 2024 and the highest figure recorded since 2013. Construction, transport, and the scientific and...

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