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Banking in Germany is a highly leveraged industry, as its average leverage ratio (assets divided by net worth) as of 11 October 2008 is 52 to 1 (while, in comparison, that of France is 28 to 1 and that of the United Kingdom is 24 to 1); its short-term liabilities are equal to 60% of the German GDP or 167% of its national debt.
The Ersparungsclasse der Allgemeinen Versorgungsanstalt, established in Hamburg in 1778, is widely viewed as the first modern savings bank.Other accounts emphasize the significance of the savings bank of Göttingen, founded in 1801, [3]: 78 which was the first established with a municipal guarantor whereas earlier foundations had been initiated by merchants, clerics or academics (Hamburg later ...
Bank of Communications, Frankfurt; Bank Sepah, Frankfurt; Citibank Privatkunden, Düsseldorf (since December 2008 part of French Crédit Mutuel bank); Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland (Corporate Bank), Frankfurt
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883) Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888) Wilhelm Haas (1839–1913) In 1843, the first German cooperative bank was created by 50 inhabitants of Öhringen in the Kingdom of Württemberg, who named it the Öhringer Privatspar- und Leihkasse ("private savings and lending bank of Öhringen") – it still exists as the Volksbank Hohenlohe [].
FinTS (Financial Transaction Services), formerly known as HBCI (Home Banking Computer Interface), is a bank-independent protocol for online banking, developed and used by German banks. HBCI was originally designed by Germany's three banking "pillar" networks, namely the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe , German Cooperative Financial Group , and ...
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In the 1970s, the Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen was located at Reichpietschufer 72-76 in Berlin, later seat of the German Defence Ministry [4]. After World War II, banking supervision was devolved in West Germany to the Länder, until a national banking supervisor was re-established in 1962 as the Bundesaufsichtsamt für das Kreditwesen [] (known as BAK or BAKred), located in West ...
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