Banking in Germany is a highly leveraged industry, as its average leverage ratio (assets divided by net worth) as of 11 October 2008 is 52 to 1 (while...

credit and lending that had their roots in the ancient world. In the history of banking, a number of banking dynasties – notably, the Medicis, the Pazzi...

The German public banking sector (German: Öffentliches Kreditwesen) represents a significant share of the broader banking sector in Germany. Unlike in most...

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) (German: Die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft / DK), known until 2011 as the Central Credit Committee (German: Zentraler...

The Raiffeisen Banking Group (German: Raiffeisen Bankengruppe, RBG) is a group of cooperative banks in Austria. The Austrian Raiffeisen banks are not...

enabling banking interoperability. It was established in 2008. BIAN's goal is to establish a semantic framework to identify and define IT services in the banking...

The history of banking began with the first prototype banks, that is, the merchants of the world, who gave grain loans to farmers and traders who carried...

Banking in Switzerland dates to the early 18th century through Switzerland's merchant trade and over the centuries has grown into a complex and regulated...

cooperative banking network in Germany that includes local banks named Volksbanken ("people's banks") and Raiffeisenbanken ("Raiffeisen banks"), the latter in tribute...

In the United States, banking had begun by the 1780s, along with the country's founding. It has developed into a highly influential and complex system...

Retail banking, also known as consumer banking or personal banking, is the provision of services by a bank to the general public, rather than to companies...

Giropay is an Internet payment system in Germany, based on online banking. Introduced in February 2006, this payment method allows customers to buy securely...

been Germany's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision. It is an independent federal institution with headquarters in Bonn and...

is now known as Hamburger Volksbank [de]. List of central banks German public banking sector Manfred Pohl (1986). Hamburger Bankengeschichte. V. Hase...

Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial...

is based on standards and agreements developed by the German Banking Industry Committee. German girocards are commonly co-branded with Mastercard's Maestro/Cirrus...

Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis. Cooperative banking institutions take deposits and lend money in most...

2007, the debit card system of the German Banking Industry Committee, the association that represents the top German financial interest groups. Usually...

China's banking sector had CN¥417 trillion (US$58.54 trillion) in assets at the end of 2023. The "Big Four" state-owned commercial banks are the Bank...

The European Banking Federation (EBF) is a trade association representing national banking associations in countries of the European Union and the European...

In Germany and Austria, the Bankleitzahl (BLZ) is a code that uniquely identifies a bank. The bank code always consists of eight digits in Germany and...

gave the blueprint for similar banking systems. The usage in German can be seen in the Banco del Giro founded in Vienna in 1703 (to extend the financing...

Wholesale banking is the provision of services by banks to larger customers or organizations such as mortgage brokers, large corporate clients, mid-sized...

management of banks, insurances and other companies financially trading in Germany. The primary legal background for MaRisk is the Kreditwesengesetz (KWG)...

European banking crisis of 1931 was a major episode of financial instability that peaked with the collapse of several major banks in Austria and Germany, including...

Mobile banking is a service provided by a bank or other financial institution that allows its customers to conduct financial transactions remotely using...

transactions. In 1976, it was converted into a chartered universal bank. This enabled the product portfolio to be expanded to include all banking products. In addition...

member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical...

Swiss company that develops and provides the Avaloq Banking Suite software for core banking. Core banking includes information about customers, transactions...

areas of Germany and Poland. Many of these merchants were from the same families who had been part of the development of the banking process in Italy. They...