DZ Bank

DZ Bank AG
Aktiengesellschaft
Industry Banking
Headquarters Frankfurt, Germany
Area served
 Germany
Key people

Helmut Gottschalk (Chairman)

Wolfgang Kirsch (CEO)
Products Banking services
Revenue Increase€6.52 billion (2017)
Decrease€1.81 billion (2017)
Decrease€1.10 billion (2017)
Total assets Decrease€506 billion (2017)
Number of employees
 30,279 (2017)
Website dzbank.com

DZ Bank AG is the second largest bank in Germany by asset size[1] and the central institution for more than 1,000 co-operative banks and their 12,000 branch offices. Within the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken Co-operative financial network, which is one of Germany's largest private sector financial service organisations, DZ Bank functions both as a central institution and as a corporate and investment bank.

DZ Bank is an acronym for Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank (literally "German Central Co-operative Bank").

As a holding, the DZ Bank Group defines itself primarily as a service provider for the local cooperative banks and their 30 million or so clients. The DZ Bank Group includes DVB Bank, a transportation finance bank; Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, a building society; DG HYP, a provider of commercial real estate finance; DZ Privatbank Gruppe; R+V Versicherung, an insurance company; TeamBank, a provider of consumer finance; Union Investment Group, an asset management company; VR Leasing; and various other specialized institutions.

DZ Bank is a member of CIBP, EACB, the Euro Banking Association and Unico.

DZ Bank is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and maintains branches, subsidiaries and representative offices in key financial centers and economic regions worldwide. The DZ Bank building in Berlin, located at Pariser Platz 3, was designed by architect Frank Gehry.

DZ Bank also has one of the most significant collections of contemporary artistic photography which today comprises over 6,000 works by more than 550 artists.

In 2016 DZ Bank was merged with WGZ Bank, the central institute of the co-operative banks of Rhineland and Westphalia.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Germany's DZ Bank appoints new co-CEOs as of 2019". Reuters:. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "DZ BANK's AGM: shareholders vote in favour of merger with WGZ BANK". DZ Bank. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
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