The Landesbanken are a group of state owned banks unique to Germany. They are regionally organised and their business is predominantly wholesale banking. The are also the head banking institution of the local and regional bases Sparkassen (= saving banks).
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The Landesbanken are a group of state owned banks unique to Germany. They are regionally organised and their business is predominantly wholesale banking. The are also the head banking institution of the local and regional bases
Sparkassen (= saving banks).
- Bayerische Landesbank
BayernLB or Bayerische Landesbank is a publicly regulated bank based in Munich, Germany and one of the eight Landesbanken. It is 94% owned by the free state of Bavaria and 6% owned by the Sparkassenverband Bayern, the umbrella organization of Bavarian Sparkassen...
(BayernLB), BavariaBavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest state of Germany by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
- Bremer Landesbank Kreditanstalt Oldenburg-Girozentrale (Bremer Landesbank), Bremen
The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the smallest of Germany's 16 Federal States . A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen .-Geography:...
- 92,5 % owned by NORD/LB
The Norddeutsche Landesbank is a German landesbank and one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. It is a public corporation by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with its head office in Hanover and branches in Braunschweig and Magdeburg.Nord/LB was established in 1765 as...
- HSH Nordbank
HSH Nordbank is a commercial bank in northern Europe with headquarters in Hamburg as well as Kiel, Germany. It is active in corporate and private banking. HSHs main focus is on shipping, transportation, real estate and renewable energy....
, HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
+ KielKiel is the capital and most populous city of the northern German state Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of over 236,000 .Kiel is approximately to the north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore...
- Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is a parent company of three commercial bank and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany.-History:...
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- BW-Bank - Baden-Württemberg Bank (Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine—but one which has some of its major cities straddling the banks of the Neckar River...
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- Sachsen-Bank (since April 2008) (Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a federal state of Germany, located in the southeastern part of present-day Germany. It is the tenth-largest German state in area and the sixth largest in population , of Germany's sixteen states.Long in the heart of German-speaking Europe, Saxony became one of the new...
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- Rheinland-Pfalz Bank (since April 2008) (Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz....
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- Norddeutsche Landesbank - Girozentrale (NORD/LB
The Norddeutsche Landesbank is a German landesbank and one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. It is a public corporation by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with its head office in Hanover and branches in Braunschweig and Magdeburg.Nord/LB was established in 1765 as...
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- Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen Bundesländer of Germany...
, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony-AnhaltSaxony-Anhalt is one of the sixteen Bundesländer that make up the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of , and a population of 2.45 million...
- Landesbank Saar (SaarLB), Saarland
Saarland is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest of the German Flächenländer , i.e., those that are not city-states...
- 75,1 % owned by BayernLB
BayernLB or Bayerische Landesbank is a publicly regulated bank based in Munich, Germany and one of the eight Landesbanken. It is 94% owned by the free state of Bavaria and 6% owned by the Sparkassenverband Bayern, the umbrella organization of Bavarian Sparkassen...
- Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba
Helaba short for Hessische Landesbank Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany...
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- Hessen and Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is located in central Germany. It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen
Bundesländer...
- NRW.BANK, North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the westernmost and—in terms of population and economic output—the largest Federal State of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km²...
- former Landesbank of North Rhine-Westphalia was the WestLB
WestLB AG is a European commercial bank based in Düsseldorf and Münster in Germany which is partly owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The letters LB in the name stand for Landesbank. The Landesbanken are a group of state owned banks unique to Germany. They are regionally organised...
- Landesbank Berlin (LBB), Berlin
Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
- owned by Landesbank Berlin Holding
See also
:Category:Landesbanks
- German public banks#Landesbanken
- :de:Landesbank