DZ Bank
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Germany
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by asset size and the central institution for more than 900 co-operative banks
Cooperative banking
Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis. Cooperative banking institutions take deposits and lend money in most parts of the world....
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.
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 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
Union Investment
Union Investment is the investment company of the DZ BANK Group and part of the cooperative financial services network....
Group, an asset management company; VR LEASING; and various other specialized institutions.
DZ Bank is a member of CIBP, EACB, the Euro Banking Association
Euro Banking Association
The Euro Banking Association is an industry forum for the European payments industry with over 200 member banks and organisations from the European Union and across the world aimed at fostering and driving pan-European payment initiatives...
and Unico.
DZ Bank is based in the financial district of Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
and maintains branch
Branch
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es, 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
Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
.
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.