Tag: Savings banks
Savings banks rely on customers not knowing
savings bank In the dispute over the right interest rate for long-term savings contracts, the savings banks have not yet approached their customers. Only a fraction of savers fight in…
Consumer advocates accuse savings banks of gambling on the statute of limitations on customer claims
savings banks Finanztip, Finanzwende and Verbraucherzentrale Sachsen are calling on savings banks to pay interest from savings contracts. (Photo: Arne Bänsch/dpa) Frankfurt In the dispute over the correct interest rate…
Savings banks and comrades want to hold shares
Schufa in Berlin With an annual turnover of more than 200 million euros and an operating margin of almost a third, Schufa is highly profitable. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt According to…
Commerzbank and several Spanish banks are exiting
Frankfurt, Madrid The European payment system EPI, which was launched with great hopes, will at best be launched as a slimmed-down version. More and more financial institutions have doubts about…
Commerzbank and several Spanish banks are exiting
Frankfurt, Madrid The European payment system EPI, which was launched with great hopes, will at best be launched as a slimmed-down version. More and more financial institutions have doubts about…
Savings banks revive the discussion about the central institute
Frankfurt The idea was almost dead, but the savings banks just won’t let it go. Even association president Helmut Schleweis had already given up his dream of rapid consolidation of…
Savings banks revive the discussion about the central institute
Frankfurt The idea was almost dead, but the savings banks just won’t let it go. Even association president Helmut Schleweis had already given up his dream of rapid consolidation of…
Savings banks revive the discussion about the central institute
Frankfurt The idea was almost dead, but the savings banks just won’t let it go. Even association president Helmut Schleweis had already given up his dream of rapid consolidation of…
Bawag major shareholder GoldenTree reduces stake significantly
Bawag Bank in Vienna The bank loses a major shareholder – at least in part. (Photo: Reuters) Munich The largest Bawag shareholder, GoldenTree, is selling a package of shares in…
Sparkasse terminates 24 customers in dispute over negative interest payments
Sparkassen logo The background to the custody fees is the negative interest rate of 0.5 percent that banks have to pay for parking money at the European Central Bank. (Photo:…
Sparkasse terminates 24 customers in dispute over negative interest payments
Sparkassen logo The background to the custody fees is the negative interest rate of 0.5 percent that banks have to pay for parking money at the European Central Bank. (Photo:…
Despite a lot of criticism, banks want to stick to the controversial ID app
Frankfurt, Berlin The federal government’s project to bring the digital identity card to the smartphone in a legally secure manner threatens to be postponed indefinitely. A delay that particularly annoys…
Despite a lot of criticism, banks want to stick to the controversial ID app
Frankfurt, Berlin The federal government’s project to bring the digital identity card to the smartphone in a legally secure manner threatens to be postponed indefinitely. A delay that particularly annoys…
Savings banks and comrades want to hold shares
Schufa in Berlin With an annual turnover of more than 200 million euros and an operating margin of almost a third, Schufa is highly profitable. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt According to…
Sparkasse women’s quota: Hardly any women on Sparkasse boards
Savings bank Only a few women are on the boards of directors of savings banks – that will not change in 2021 either. (Photo: imago images / Future Image) Frankfurt…
Berlin Hyp is to go to LBBW
LBBW in Stuttgart The Landesbank Baden-Würtemberg can swallow the savings bank real estate financier Berlin Hyp. (Photo: imago images / Arnulf Hettrich) Frankfurt LBBW emerged as the winner in the…
Construction financing is booming – experts expect interest rates to rise
New development area Experts expect mortgage lending rates to rise in 2022. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt They are considered to be a key factor in the rising prices on the German…
Why savings banks should be careful with Bitcoin & Co.
Sparkasse in Frankfurt Plans for the savings banks’ crypto offer could become more specific in the coming year. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt It’s great that cryptocurrencies are finally arriving in the…
Bain trusts German banks with a ten percent return
Frankfurt After the pandemic year 2020, the return on equity of German credit institutions should recover significantly this year. This is the conclusion of the management consultancy Bain in a…
Savings banks are checking the supply of cryptocurrencies
Frankfurt The German savings banks are joining the crypto boom. They are considering enabling their customers to trade cryptocurrencies. “The interest in crypto assets is enormous, the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe also sees…