M.M.Warburg & CO KGaA is a German private bank, based in Hamburg. A family-owned bank, it was founded in 1798 by Banca Levi Kahana of Warburg and brothers Moses Marcus Warburg and Gerson Warburg, two members of the Warburg family. The bank came under pressure to Aryanize under the Nazis. The Warburg family still owns the bank, continuing a more than 200-year legacy of private ownership.
Commerzbank AG is a major German bank operating as a universal bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. In the 2019 financial year, the bank was the second largest in Germany by the total value of its balance sheet. Founded in 1870 in Hamburg, the bank is today present in more than 50 countries around the world and provides almost a third of Germany's trade finance. In 2017, it handled 13 million customers in Germany and 5 million customers in Central and Eastern Europe. Commerzbank is a member of the Cash Group. 15% of the shares are owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and 85% are in free float.
UniCredit Bank AG, better known under its brand name HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is the fifth-largest of the German financial institutions, ranked according to its total assets, and the fourth-largest bank in Germany according to the number of its employees. Its registered office is in Munich, and it is a member of the Cash Group. Since 2005, UniCredit Bank AG has been a subsidiary of UniCredit S.p.A., an Italian financial service provider headquartered in Milan. When the transfer resolution was entered in the commercial register in 2008, the equities of the minority shareholders were transferred to the principal shareholder, UniCredit S.p.A., as part of a squeeze-out. HVB thus became a wholly owned subsidiary and has not been listed on a stock exchange since that time.
HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, operating as HSBC Deutschland, is a German financial services company. It traces its history back to 1785 and is one of the longest-established members of the HSBC Group. HSBC in Germany has operations in private, commercial and investment banking and asset management. The German entity reports to HSBC Bank plc.
ATM usage fees are the fees that many banks and interbank networks charge for the use of their automated teller machines (ATMs). In some cases, these fees are assessed solely for non-members of the bank; in other cases, they apply to all users.
Cash Group is a cooperation of the four largest German private banks and their subsidiaries, in which they mutually waive ATM usage fees for their customers. It is not an interbank network but uses the pre-existing girocard network. With more than 7000 ATMs, the cooperating banks' ATM networks form the third largest ATM network in Germany.
Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers AG is a private bank based in Frankfurt am Main. Hauck & Aufhäuser also maintains offices in Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, London, Luxembourg, Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China) and focuses on the advisory and asset management of private and corporate clients as well as institutional investors and on cooperation with independent asset managers. The bank was created in 1998 from the merger of Georg Hauck & Sohn Bankiers in Frankfurt am Main and Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser in Munich. Since 2016 it has been part of the Chinese conglomerate Fosun. In March 2020 Hauck & Aufhäuser announced its intention to buy Bankhaus Lampe KG from the Oetker Group. The purchase is subject to approval by the competition authorities.
girocard is an interbank network and debit card service connecting virtually all German ATMs and banks. It is based on standards and agreements developed by the German Banking Industry Committee.
Targobank AG is a German bank mainly operating in the retail, business and corporate customer segments and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. With 700 employees at its head office, Targobank is one of the larger banking employers in the Düsseldorf financial center. In Duisburg, the bank runs a customer center with 2,000 employees. In addition, there are administrative buildings in Mainz (factoring) and Düsseldorf. Since 2008 it is part of the French Crédit Mutuel Alliance Féderale banking group. Before the bank was part of the American Citigroup which in 2010 became Citibank Privatkunden AG & Co. KGaA and until 1991 it had been active under the name Kundenkreditbank.
The Bankcard-Servicenetz is a German ATM card interbank network group provided by the Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken services group. Technically it is not an interbank network but uses the pre-existing girocard network. Member banks of this cash credit group charge ATM usage fees at a low level and most customers of the co-operative banks enjoy free withdrawal from their accounts. With 19,200 ATMs the Bankcard-Servicenetz group is the second largest ATM group in Germany.
MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA is an owner-managed listed German private bank with headquarters in Munich.
The Bankhaus Bauer AG is a German private bank headquartered in Stuttgart. The bank is a member of the Association of German Banks and its deposit protection fund as well as a member of ATM network CashPool.
The Edekabank AG is a universal bank and a business of the Edeka Group located at the Edeka House, New-York-Ring 6 in the City Nord in Hamburg. The bank is the central financing institute of the Edeka grocery retailers and is active in consumer banking as direct bank with online and phone consulting.
The Norisbank GmbH is a German bank with headquarters in Bonn. Since 2 November 2006, it has been a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank and since 27 July 2012 purely a direct bank.
The Südwestbank AG is a regional bank in the southwest of Germany which is located in Stuttgart. The bank operates in the form of a stock corporation and looks after about 100,000 private and corporate customers in Baden-Württemberg.
The Santander Consumer Bank AG is a German Credit Institution in the legal form of a corporation with headquarters in Mönchengladbach. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish Banco Santander S.A.
The private bank Bankhaus Löbbecke AG, headquartered in Berlin, was founded in 1761 as a trading house in Iserlohn, settled in Braunschweig as early as 1763 and finally belonged to the Hamburg private bank M. M. Warburg & Co. since the end of 2003, with which it was merged in 2016.
Alpen Privatbank is a private bank in western Austria. It operates in Riezlern (headquarter), Innsbruck, Salzburg, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart. Its clients are primarily high net worth individuals from Tyrol, Salzburg, northern Italy, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg. The customer volumes under management amount to approximately € 2.7 billion.
Walser Privatbank is a bank with headquarters in Hirschegg, Austria. It was originally founded in 1894 as the regional Spar- und Darlehenskassenverein Mittelberg. Today's business focus has shifted to private banking, especially for customers with assets of at least 300,000 Euros from Germany. Due to its location in the Kleinwalsertal customs exclusion area, Walser Privatbank lies in German economic territory, but not under the jurisdiction of German customs. "The Kleinwalsertal benefited from Austrian banking secrecy for many years as a banking location."
