Latest banking news and analysis

Deutsche Bank reduces its balance by 20%

Germany’s largest bank – Deutsche Bank intends over the next 2.5 years to reduce the balance by 20% to approximately $ 1 trillion euros to meet the more stringent requirements of financial regulators, according to the Financial Times.  Read more »

The German economy is on the rise

The German economy, according to Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, is on the rise again. Weidman said after the G20 conference in Moscow, that after the weak economy in the winter months in the spring there is a “strong growth”.  Read more »

S & P confirmed the sovereign rating of Germany

International rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S & P) confirmed the long-term sovereign credit rating of Germany at “AAA” with a stable outlook. Short-term sovereign credit rating maintained at “A-1+”. Read more »

SEPA: benefits for individual banks customers

The term SEPA stands for the “Single Euro Payments Area” – for the united European payments area, that consists of all countries of the European Union – the European Economic Area and Switzerland.  Read more »

The European Central Bank Cut Interest Rates

ECB has cut interest rates from 0.75 percent to a record low of 0.5 percent, which aims at further easing monetary policy. Therefore, the interest rate offered has thus largely exhausted the ECB. Read more »


Last Added Banks:

Berliner Sparkasse

Berliner Sparkasse is one of the largest savings banks in Germany. It was founded in 1818, and in 1920 was integrated with Girozentrale Berlin (Landesbank Berlin AG).  Read more »

Deutsche Postbank

The Deutsche Postbank AG is a German financial institution, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, with headquarters in Bonn.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial share of the capital of individuals, as well as complementary businesses. With more than 100,000 employees, Deutsche Bank provides unparalleled financial services in 72 countries.  Read more »

Sparda Bank

“Sparda Banks” is an association of twelve co-operative banks in Germany, traditionally specialized in the retail business.  Read more »

HypoVereinsbank

The HypoVereinsbank (or HVB, a brand of Unicredit Bank AG), is the sixth-largest German bank in terms of total assets, and fifth-largest bank by a number of employees in Germany. Read more »

Commerzbank

Commerzbank AG is the second largest bank in Germany. It serves almost 11 million individuals and about a million business and corporate clients around the world. Commerzbank is an active member of the Cash Group. Read more »

Norisbank

Norisbank was established in 1965 as a Noris Credit Bank, then was renamed to Norisbank in 1969.
In 2006 Norisbank was purchased by Deutsche Bank and in 2012 received a new corporate image.  Read more »

Volksbank Raiffeisenbank

The BVR (Volksbank-Raiffeisen Bank) is the leading organization in the cooperative banking sector in Germany, in which members are cooperative banks, savings banks, PSD banks, church, and cooperative auditing associations. Read more »