Germany

Founded in Berlin in 1870 to finance German foreign trade. Deutsche Bank funded the Baghdad Railway,...

The Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northern Europe from th...

The concept of using property as collateral for loans dates to ancient Rome, but modern mortgage sys...

The Hamburger Bank was founded in 1619 in Hamburg, modeled on the Bank of Amsterdam. It was a public...

The first savings bank was founded in Hamburg in 1778, designed to encourage thrift among working pe...

The Fugger banking house of Augsburg dominated European finance in the early 16th century. Jakob Fug...

The Reichsbank, Germanys central bank, facilitated the hyperinflation of 1923 by printing money to f...

The Rothschild banking dynasty was founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt in the 1760s. Ma...

The Warburg family of Hamburg established one of the most influential Jewish banking dynasties. The ...

Founded in 1870 in Hamburg. Commerzbank merged with Mitteldeutsche Creditbank in 1920 and Dresdner B...

N26 was founded in Berlin in 2013 by Maximilian Tayenthal and Valentin Stalf. N26 launched its mobil...