The Deutsche Bundesbank, literally "German Federal Bank", is the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). Due to its strength and former size, the Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Both the Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) are located in Frankfurt, Germany. It is sometimes referred to as "Buba" for Bundesbank, while its usual abbreviation is BBk in Germany and internationally DBB.
Commerzbank AG is a global German universal bank, headquartered in Frankfurt. The bank was founded in Hamburg in 1870 and is today among the largest credit institutions in Germany, with total assets of €534 billion as of end-September 2022. With over 15 percent, the Government of Germany is the bank's biggest shareholder.
Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG), which loosely translates into English as "German wealth advisors", is a company based in Frankfurt, Germany. The DVAG is active in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Founded in 1975 by Reinfried Pohl, the company is managed by Deutsche Vermögensberatung Holding and is Germany’s largest stand-alone financial services distributor.
Roland Berger is an international management consultancy headquartered in Munich. With 2,400 employees and 52 offices in 35 countries, it has a presence in all major industrialized and emerging markets. As the market leader in Germany, Roland Berger is the only European consultancy with an international presence and is one of the leading representatives of its industry. Annual sales in 2018 were around EUR 600 million, the most successful financial year to date.
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority better known by its abbreviation BaFin is the financial regulatory authority for Germany. It is an independent federal institution with headquarters in Bonn and Frankfurt and falls under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Finance. BaFin supervises about 2,700 banks, 800 financial services institutions, and over 700 insurance undertakings.
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.
The Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands, colloquially known as Verband Öffentlicher Banken is a German national association of development banks and of the regional Landesbanks, which are part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and thus also members of the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, plus a few additional members. Some of the latter now belong to the private sector, such as Internationales Bankenhaus Bodensee which belonged to the public sector until the 2000s.
The Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) is a graduate school which was established as a non-profit foundation in 2002 by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with the support of many prominent institutions. Leading commercial banks and international law firms, the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the City of Frankfurt and the State of Hesse, as well as the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank are actively involved in the ILF right from the planning stages until today. The ILF provides interdisciplinary training to lawyers, senior management and executives in Germany and worldwide and serves as a policy center in the legislative process by offering forums for discussions and exchanges between academia and practitioners.
The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC), known until 2011 as the Central Credit Committee is an industry association of the German banking industry. Its decisions are held normative for the national banking sector – either directly by interbank treaties or indirectly by preparing a corresponding ministerial or Bundesbank decision.
The Association of German Banks is the association of commercial banks in Germany and a key lobby group for Germany's financial sector. It was founded in 1951 in Cologne as an Eingetragener Verein, succeeding the pre-war Centralverband des deutschen Bank- und Bankiergewerbes (1901-1945). In 1999 it moved to Berlin, while its the publishing subsidiary Bankverlag remained in Cologne. The association also maintains an office in Brussels.
Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) is the second-largest direct bank in Germany with 4.5 million customers, fully owned by Bayerische Landesbank. In 2018 the company, with its parent company BayernLB, ranked 7th on the list of the biggest banks in Germany.
Comdirect Bank Aktiengesellschaft was the third-largest German direct bank and was based in Quickborn, Schleswig-Holstein. Founded by the Commerzbank in 1994, the company went public in 2000. The Commerzbank integrated the company on November 1, 2020.
MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA is an owner-managed listed German private bank with headquarters in Munich.
The GEFA Bank GmbH is a financial services provider specialising in independent manufacturer sales and investment financing of mobile assets. The company, founded in 1949 as subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank, and is based in Wuppertal headquarters at the Robert-Daum-Platz. It employs over 500 personnel in seven branches nationwide.
The Degussa Bank AG, based in Frankfurt, is a German universal bank.
The Eurocity Bank AG is a fully licensed bank in the legal form of an Aktiengesellschaft. Its headquarters are in Frankfurt am Main, it is owned by Austrian shareholders and Euro Yatırım Holding A.Ş, Istanbul.
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.
Varengold Bank AG is a German bank founded in Hamburg in 1995 that also has offices in London and Sofia.
DSK Hyp AG is the German subsidiary of one of the largest Swedish banks, the Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB).
