Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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
The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest national development bank [ 2 ] and as of 2018 Germany's third largest bank by balance sheet.
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 [].
Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) is the second-largest direct bank in Germany with 4.5 million customers, fully owned by Bayerische Landesbank. [1] [2] [3] In 2018 the company, with its parent company BayernLB, ranked 7th on the list of the biggest banks in Germany.
By 1990, it was the third largest of the daughters of the State Bank of USSR behind the much larger Moscow Narodny Bank in London and Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord – Eurobank in Paris. [1] [14] At the end of 1991, Ost-West Handelsbank had a DM 65 million paid-in share of capital. [3]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The bank was managed by five general partners under an unusual German partnership arrangement. On November 29, 2005 the partners voted to convert the bank to AG or limited company status, and in August 2006, HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt completed its transition from a German limited partnership (KGaA) to a corporation limited by shares (AG) .