DekaBank

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DekaBank
Company typeAnstalt des öffentlichen Rechts
Industry Financial services
Founded1918 [1]
Headquarters Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Key people
Helmut Schleweis (Chairman)
Georg Stocker(CEO)
Revenue€928.3 million (30 June 2021)
€333.9 million (30 June 2021)
AUM €368.3 billion (30 June 2021)
Number of employees
4,711 (30 June 2021)
Parent Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website www.deka.de

DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale is the central provider of asset management and capital market solutions[ clarification needed ] of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, a network of public banks that together form the largest financial services group in Germany and in all of Europe[ citation needed ]. It is registered in both Frankfurt and Berlin, with main operational headquarters in Frankfurt. It traces its origins to the Deutsche Girozentrale, established in 1918 as a hub for payments within the German savings banks system.

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DekaBank is the central asset manager of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, and one of the largest securities services providers in Germany. As a central provider, the bank bundles its competencies in asset management and financial services in its five business areas of asset management, real estate, services, capital markets and financing. Retail and institutional clients and investors can choose from a wide range of investment products and services. DekaBank cooperates closely with local savings banks and Landesbanks. Additionally, it is represented internationally with branches, subsidiaries and representative offices in eleven countries.

DekaBank has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. [2] [3]

Background

Johann Christian Eberle  [ de ] established the first giro association involving German savings banks, the Giroverband Sächsischer Gemeinden (lit. 'giro association of Saxon municipalities'), which was founded on 5 October 1908 with 151 members and started giro operations on 2 January 1909. Several other regional giro associations (German : Giroverbände) were subsequently created. On 26 October 1916 during World War I, the Deutscher Zentral-Giroverband (lit. 'German Central Giro Association') was established in Berlin to coordinate the activities of the Giroverbände. [4]

Deutsche Girozentrale

Building at Gertraudenstrasse 16 in Berlin (former seat of Bank- und Handelshaus Splitgerber & Daum [de]), DGZ head office from 1918 to 1945; demolished in the 1960s S&D Hauptsitz.jpg
Building at Gertraudenstrasse 16 in Berlin (former seat of Bank- und Handelshaus Splitgerber & Daum  [ de ]), DGZ head office from 1918 to 1945; demolished in the 1960s

The Deutsche Girozentrale (DGZ) was established on 1 February 1918, initially as a banking division of the Deutscher Zentral-Giroverband. [5] : 102  Its capital of 15 million Reichsmarks was provided by the regional Giroverbände under joint and several liability. [6] : 28  DGZ operated cashless payment (giro) transactions and settlement between the regional giro organizations (German : Girozentralen). DGZ was also tasked with short-term lending to regional giro associations that were members of the Deutscher Zentral-Giroverband, from 1924 the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband (DSGV), and to other German municipal associationsn, managing interest-bearing funds, buying and selling foreign exchange, and borrowing on their behalf. In 1919, DGZ was also authorized to provide long-term financing to municipalities and to issue municipal bonds. The name "Deutsche Kommunalbank" was consequently added to that of DGZ in 1921, so that its full name became Deutsche Girozentrale - Deutsche Kommunalbank, still known as DGZ. In 1931, DGZ was reorganized together with the broader municipal banking system, and it received a statute (German : Satzung) of its own in 1932. Even so, the DSGV remained ultimately liable for DGZ. At the same time, the supervision of DGZ was transferred from the Interior Minister of Prussia to the national government of the Weimar Republic. From 1933, the National Socialists used DGZ to cover the steadily growing financial needs for rearmament and later for warfare. [7] : 92 

Following the end of World War II, the DGZ head office, in East Berlin, was closed by the Soviet Military Administration. In 1949, it was revived as Deutsche Kommunalbank in Düsseldorf, West Germany, but with a more limited mandate that was focused on short-term transactions. In 1954, it was again named Deutsche Girozentrale - Deutsche Kommunalbank and resumed full activities, and in 1955 it opened a branch in West Berlin. In 1964-1965, DGZ's head office was relocated from Düsseldorf to Frankfurt. [8] : 291–293 

Deutsche Kapitalanlagegesellschaft (Deka)

Deka (full name Deutsche Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH, lit. 'German capital investment company ltd') was founded in 17 August 1956, as an asset management company based in Düsseldorf. It launched its first domestic investment fund in November 1956, and its first international fund in February 1962. In 1965, like DGZ, it relocated its headquarters to Frankfurt. In 1988, it established its first foreign subsidiary, Deka International SA in Luxembourg, followed in 1995 by Deka Bank (Schweiz) AG in Zürich. DekaBank GmbH was founded in 1996 as holding entity for the Deka Group.

1999 merger and aftermath

On 1 January 1999, DGZ and DekaBank merged to form DGZ-DekaBank Deutsche Kommunalbank, which was renamed DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale in 2002.

In April 2011, DSGV became the sole owner of DekaBank by purchasing the 50 percent stake owned until then by the Landesbanks. [9]

In November 2014, DekaBank came under the prudential supervisory authority of the European Central Bank as a consequence of European banking union.

In 2015, Deka joined Lloyds Bank and Qatar National Bank in a £705 million senior loan which financed the Qatar Investment Authority’s acquisition of 8 Canada Square in Canary Wharf. [10] That same year, Helaba’s leadership proposed a merger with Deka. [11] In May 2019, both entered into exploratory talks on a merger. [12] Later that year, Deka’s supervisory board instructed management to explore “deeper cooperation” with the bank from January 2020. [13]

In 2016, Deka was one of Germany's main issuers of credit-linked notes. [14]

In 2017, amid the Volkswagen emissions scandal, a German court named Deka as lead plaintiff for 1,470 damages claims against Volkswagen totaling 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion). [15]

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References

  1. ↑ DekaBank Company Profile Retrieved 25 April 2015
  2. ↑ "The list of significant supervised entities and the list of less significant institutions" (PDF). European Central Bank. 4 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 1 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Sparkassenhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes, Geschichte der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe (PDF), DSGV
  5. ↑ Dietmar Grichnik (2013), Bankenverbände: Strategisches Netzwerkmanagement in der Bankwirtschaft, Springer-Verlag
  6. ↑ Margarete Wagner-Braun, "Die Deutsche Girozentrale als Antwort auf Finanzprobleme des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: Vorgeschichte und erste Geschäftsjahre 1918-1931" (PDF), Die DekaBank seit 1918, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, pp. 13–85
  7. ↑ Harald Wixforth, "Die langfristigen Folgen der Bankenkrise und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus 1931-1945" (PDF), Die DekaBank seit 1918, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, pp. 87–172
  8. ↑ Thorsten Beckers, "Gründung und erste Jahre der deutschen Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbh 1956-1970" (PDF), Die DekaBank seit 1918, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, pp. 231–304
  9. ↑ "Germany's DekaBank fires CEO after spat over bonus". Reuters. 2 April 2012.
  10. ↑ Judith Evans (January 21, 2016), Lloyds steps up commercial property lending Financial Times .
  11. ↑ Andreas Kroener (August 26, 2015), German Helaba chief floats idea of merger with Deka Bank Reuters .
  12. ↑ Klaus Lauer and Arno Schuetze (May 16, 2019), German landesbanks Helaba and Deka consider tie-up: sources Reuters .
  13. ↑ Patricia Uhlig, Klaus Lauer and Arno Schuetze (December 5, 2019), German bank Deka makes first move toward possible merger with Helaba Reuters .
  14. ↑ Jonathan Gould and Alexander Huebner (July 28, 2016), Germany to ban sale of credit-linked notes to retail investors Reuters .
  15. ↑ Sabine Wollrab (March 8, 2017), German court names lead plaintiff in Volkswagen diesel test case Reuters .
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