Central banks

Deutsche Bundesbank 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 ...

, Frankfurt * European Central Bank, Frankfurt

Local banks

* BayernLB, Munich * Bremer Bank,

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

Commerzbank Commerzbank AG () is a major German bank operating as a universal bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. In the 2019 financial year, the bank was the second largest in Germany by the total value of its balance sheet. Founded in 1870 in Hambur ...

, Frankfurt * Consorsbank, Nuremberg * DAB BNP Paribas, Munich * DekaBank (Germany), Frankfurt * Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt *

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG is a German bank that specialises in real estate and public sector financing. As of 2016, it is a constituent of the SDAX trading index of German small-cap companies. It is based in Garching in Bayern, a suburb of Munic ...

, Garching bei München (next to Munich) * DZ Bank, Frankfurt * GLS Bank,

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

* Hamburg Commercial Bank (formerly HSH Nordbank), Hamburg * KfW, Frankfurt *

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is a universal bank and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen). As of 2018, it is Germany's biggest state-backed landesbank lender. LBBW is a full-serv ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

* Landesbank Berlin Holding, Berlin *

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Helaba, short for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany offering financial services to companies, banks, institutional investors and the public sector, both within Germany and internat ...

, Frankfurt * Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank *

National-Bank National-Bank AG (own spelling: NATIONAL-BANK) is one of the medium-sized regional banks in Germany. With around 600 employees, it provides services for approximately 100,000 retail clients, freelancers, corporate clients and institutional invest ...

AG,

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

FIDOR bank Fidor Bank is a German online bank, founded in 2009. In 2015, it started a market foray into the UK. In July 2016, it was announced that Fidor Bank was being acquired by France's Groupe BPCE for €100m. As of September 2016, Fidor Bank continued ...

AG * N26, Berlin * Nord/LB, Hanover * NRW.Bank, Düsseldorf * Portigon Financial Services, Düsseldorf * solarisBank, Berlin * Wirecard Bank

Co-operative banks

see:

German Cooperative Financial Group The German Cooperative Financial Group, german: Genossenschaftliche FinanzGruppe Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken, sometimes referred to in English as "Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken Cooperative Financial Network", is a major cooperative banking network ...

Sparkassen

see:

Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe The ''Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe'' ("Savings Banks Financial Group") is a network of public banks that together form the largest financial services group in Germany and in all of Europe. Its name refers to local government-controlled savings banks t ...

Investment banks

Baader Bank AG Baader Bank AG is a German bank based in Unterschleißheim near Munich and is active in the trading of financial instruments. As a market maker with a full banking license, it is responsible for the pricing of over 800,000 securities, provides t ...

, Unterschleißheim *

Varengold Bank Varengold Bank AG is a German bank founded in Hamburg in 1995 that also has offices in London and Sofia. Divisions In the marketplace banking division, the bank supports online marketplaces that deal with the financing of companies and consumers ...

, Hamburg

Foreign banks

EU banks

Allied Irish Banks Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, trav ...

, Frankfurt * Banco Santander, Mönchengladbach * Barclays Bank, Hamburg *

BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the grou ...

, Frankfurt * Crédit Lyonnais, Frankfurt * DHB Bank, Düsseldorf * Garantibank, Düsseldorf * Handelsbanken, Hamburg * ING Group, Frankfurt * Lloyds Banking Group, Berlin * Nordea, Frankfurt *

Royal Bank of Scotland The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS; gd, Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland. It is one of the retail banking subsidiaries of NatWest Group, together with NatWest (in England and Wales) and Ulster Bank ...

, Frankfurt * SEB AG, Frankfurt * Société Générale, Frankfurt * Hanseatic Bank, Hamburg * Targobank, Düsseldorf * Triodos Bank, Frankfurt *

UniCredit Bank AG UniCredit S.p.A. is an international banking group headquartered in Milan. It is Italy's only systemically important bank (according to the list provided by the Financial Stability Board in 2022) and the world's 34th largest by assets. It was for ...

, Munich

Swiss and overseas banks

* Bank of Communications, Frankfurt *

Bank Sepah Bank Sepah ( fa, بانک سپه, ''Bānke Sepah''), the first Iranian bank, was established in 1925 (corresponding to 1304 in the Iranian Calendar). Its first branch, in Tehran, opened that year. The bank also has branches in Frankfurt, Paris an ...

, Frankfurt *

Citibank Citibank, N. A. (N. A. stands for " National Association") is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later became First National City ...

Privatkunden, Düsseldorf (since December 2008 part of French Crédit Mutuel bank) *

Citigroup Citigroup Inc. or Citi (Style (visual arts), stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking ...

Global Markets Deutschland (Corporate Bank), Frankfurt *

Credit Suisse Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and is one of the nine global " ...

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

, Frankfurt * ICICI Bank, Eschborn * JP Morgan, Frankfurt *

Julius Baer Julius Bär Group AG, known alternatively as Julius Baer Group Ltd., is a private banking corporation founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, it is among the older Swiss banking institutions. In terms of assets under managemen ...

, Frankfurt * Lazard, Frankfurt, Hamburg *

Merrill Lynch Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment bank ...

, Frankfurt * MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. Germany Branch, Düsseldorf *

Mizuho Bank is the integrated retail and corporate banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group (; ), the third largest financial services company in Japan, with total assets of approximately $1.8 trillion in 2017. Mizuho is one of the three so-called Japanese ...

Ltd., Düsseldorf * Morgan Stanley, Frankfurt * National Bank of Pakistan, Frankfurt *

Nomura Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent * Katsuhiro Nomura, Japanese voice actor, includi ...

Financial Products Europe, Frankfurt *

State Bank of India State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational public sector bank and financial services statutory body headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. SBI is the 49th largest bank in the world by total assets and ranked 221st in the ''Fortune ...

, Frankfurt *

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is a Japanese multinational banking and financial services institution headquartered in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The group operates in retail, corporate, and investment banking segment worldwide. It provides financial products and ser ...

, Düsseldorf * UBS AG, Frankfurt * Vakifbank, Cologne

Smaller private banks

* Bankhaus C. L. Seeliger, Wolfenbüttel *

Bankhaus Lampe Bankhaus Lampe is an independent, private bank in Germany, founded in 1852 and headquartered in Bielefeld. The head office is in Düsseldorf, and additional offices are located in Germany, London, New York and Vienna. It is wholly owned by Hauck ...

, Bielefeld ( Düsseldorf Headquarter) * Internationales Bankhaus Bodensee, Friedrichshafen *

Merck Finck & Co The private bank Merck Finck Privatbankiers AG, founded in 1870, is based in Munich and is also represented nationwide with a total of 16 locations. Since 2011, it has been a subsidiary of the Luxembourg bank KBL European Private Bankers (KLB), wh ...

, Munich * Bankhaus Löbbecke, Berlin *

Donner & Reuschel Donner & Reuschel AG is a German bank organised as a limited company (Aktiengesellschaft) and headquartered in Hamburg. Until 2010, it was known as ''Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank AG''. The bank specialises in private banking and has 580 employees in ...

, Hamburg *

Hauck & Aufhäuser Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers AG is a private bank based in Frankfurt am Main. Hauck & Aufhäuser also maintains offices in Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, London, Luxembourg, Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China) and focuses on the advis ...

, Frankfurt *

Berenberg Bank Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, commonly known as Berenberg Bank and also branded as simply Berenberg, is a multinational full-service investment bank based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by the Flemish Berenberg family in 1590 () and ...

, Hamburg * Bierbaum & Co, Frankfurt *

Degussa Bank The Degussa Bank AG, based in Frankfurt, is a German universal bank. The balance sheet total is €6,106 million (2018). The Degussa Bank has more than 250 branches in Germany, mainly in industrial, business and technology parks as well as at corp ...

, Frankfurt *

HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, operating as HSBC Deutschland, is a German financial services company. It traces its history back to 1785 and is one of the longest-established members of the HSBC Group. HSBC in Germany has operations in private, co ...

, Düsseldorf * IKB Deutsche Industriebank, Düsseldorf *

Merkur Bank MERKUR PRIVATBANK KGaA is an owner-managed listed German private bank with headquarters in Munich. History In 1959 Zanwel Horowicz as well as Motek and Hela Horowicz founded Merkur Bank Horowicz KG in Munich, which at that time was mainly limite ...

, Munich *

Metzler Bank The B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. AG is a private banking company in Frankfurt, Germany. Metzler traces its origins to a trading company established 1674 by Benjamin Metzler in Frankfurt and is Germany’s second oldest bank (after Berenberg Ban ...

, Frankfurt *

Südwestbank AG The Südwestbank AG (stylized as SÜDWESTBANK) is a regional bank in the southwest of Germany which is located in Stuttgart. The bank operates in the form of a stock corporation and looks after about 100,000 private and corporate customers in Bad ...

* Norisbank, Bonn *

Walser Privatbank Walser Privatbank is a bank with headquarters in Hirschegg, Austria. It was originally founded in 1894 as the regional ''Spar- und Darlehenskassenverein Mittelberg''. Today's business focus has shifted to private banking, especially for customers ...

, Düsseldorf

Special operations banks

* Baader Wertpapierhandelsbank, Unterschleißheim *Bank für Sozialwirtschaft AG, Cologne *

BMW Bank The BMW Bank GmbH is a finance service and a company of the BMW Group. The company known under BMW Group Financial Services was founded in 1971 in Munich, Germany. In 1973, the BMW Leasing GmbH was added – also situated in Munich. The fabricate ...

, Munich * Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, Düsseldorf * Deutsche Wertpapier Service Bank, Frankfurt * DVB Bank, Frankfurt *

European Bank for Financial Services European, or Europeans, or Europeneans, may refer to: In general * ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe ** Ethnic groups in Europe ** Demographics of Europe ** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe ...

(ebase), Aschheim * Edekabank, Hamburg * GEFA Bank, Wuppertal * Mercedes-Benz Bank,

*Pax Bank, Cologne *

Reisebank ReiseBank AG is a bank specializing in foreign currency dealing, precious metals and travel payment business (including traveler's checks), which is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of DZ Bank and part of the c ...

, Frankfurt (100% DZ Bank) * Siemens Bank GmbH, Munich, 100% Siemens Financial Services * Toyota Kreditbank GmbH, Cologne *

Umweltbank The Umweltbank AG is a German direct bank that exclusively finances ecological loan projects with its customer deposits. Corporate philosophy The Umweltbank has the objective of contributing to the protection of the environment through its busin ...

, Nuremberg * VEM Aktienbank AG, Munich * Volkswagen Bank, Braunschweig

References

External links

List of banks in the Germany with SWIFT codes
{{List of banks in Europe Germany Banks Germany