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Their business is predominantly wholesale banking, partly to serve local savings banks (German: Sparkassen). With a few exceptions, Landesbanken and Sparkassen are chartered by national and state banking laws to pursue a public purpose (German: öffentlicher Auftrag). [3] As of late 2022, they are:
The German public banking sector (German: Öffentliches Kreditwesen) represents a significant share of the broader banking sector in Germany. Unlike in most other Western and Central European countries, German public-sector banks have been present since the early phases of formalization of banking entities in the early modern period and have ...
The Riegle–Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994 [1] [2] (IBBEA) amended the laws governing federally chartered banks in order to restore the laws' competitiveness with the recently relaxed laws governing state-chartered banks. The goal was the return to a balance between the benefits of a state bank charter versus a ...
The German Banking Act Kreditwesengesetz (KWG), literally meaning law of the banking system, is the primary legally implementation of the Basel Accords. It is binding for banks and other institutes providing financial services (German: de:Kreditinstitute und de:Finanzdienstleistungsinstitute ) in Germany and effective since January 1935, but ...
In 2009, as a regulatory response to the revealed vulnerability of the banking sector in the financial crisis of 2007–08, and attempting to come up with a solution to solve the "too big to fail" interdependence between G-SIFIs and the economy of sovereign states, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) started to develop a method to identify G-SIFIs to which a set of stricter requirements would ...
The United States relies on state-level bank supervisors (or "state regulators", e.g. the New York State Department of Financial Services), and at the federal level on a number of agencies involved in the prudential supervision of credit institutions: for banks, the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Federal Deposit ...
State Bank generally refers either (1) to a financial institution that is chartered by a federated state in federal countries such as Australia or the United States (as opposed to one regulated at the federal or national level), or (2) a public bank.
VÖB is the only German banking association exercising the functions of an employer association for its member institutions: the Public-Sector Banks’ Employer Association (German: Tarifgemeinschaft Öffentlicher Banken), which comprises VÖB member institutions with a total of 60,000 employees (as at financial year 2022) and which performs ...